If you don't know how to repot and help a plant recover after repotting, no wonder all the flowers you buy end up dead

This is day 924 of Blue Goblin's daily original article

You bought a flower seedling, and the first thing to do when you get home should be to repot it. Repotting is easy, but helping the plant recover after repotting is not. If the recovery goes well, the seedling can quickly resume growth; if it doesn't, it will not only affect the seedling's growth, but in severe cases can even lead to the seedling's death.

Just yesterday, Blue Goblin received a consultation from a flower-growing friend:

This friend's rose seedling, bought online, already showed signs of water deficiency when it arrived.

The leaves already showed water deficiency, and the flower buds were drooping. Actually, this is a common problem when buying seedlings in summer. When this happens, we should first give the seedling simple rehydration and pruning treatment, and then repot it.

This friend did well too. She pruned this rose, soaked the pot, and basically restored the rose seedling's vitality, then repotted it. But during the recovery process, due to improper recovery care, the rose seedling lost a large number of leaves, and the branches also showed signs of shriveling.

From the picture, you can see that this rose now has very few leaves left. Today Blue Goblin will temporarily not discuss this rose's other problems, and will only analyze it from the perspective of recovery after repotting. First, for a seedling in a nutrient pot like this, the root system is definitely relatively poor. It already showed severe water deficiency when received, so when repotting and helping it recover, you should be careful to avoid exposure to blazing sun.

What Blue Goblin means here is to avoid blazing sun, but it can still get some sunlight.You may find it strange: doesn't recovery after repotting always mean placing the plant in a cool, ventilated place? How can it still get sunlight?

Placing plants in a cool, ventilated place for recovery after repotting does not apply to all flowers. For herbaceous flowers with high transpiration and shade-loving flowers, recovery after repotting can be done in a cool, ventilated place, but for sun-loving flowers like roses, they need sunlight.When our friend was helping her plant recover after repotting, her mistake was letting the sun blaze down on it!If it were a rose seedling with a good root system, blazing sun would be no problem, but this is a nutrient-pot seedling with a weak root system, so the situation is different.

Because the root system is poor but there are many leaves, transpiration is relatively fast and the demand for water is relatively high, but the poor root system has insufficient water-absorbing capacity. This led to water deficiency in the rose seedling, a large number of leaves falling off, and even the branches showing wrinkling from water deficiency.

For sun-loving flowers with poor root systems like this, during recovery after repotting, they should be given less intense morning and evening sunlight, avoiding direct strong light at noon. This way it can both meet the light demand for photosynthesis and avoid consuming too quickly, which would cause the plant to collapse.

Of course, in the process of growing flowers at home, different plants and different plant conditions will require different recovery methods after repotting. Today Blue Goblin is only using this friend's rose as an example to give everyone a preliminary explanation.

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