You've heard about the importance of repotting, but aren't confident about getting started? Having produced a multitude of plants, here are my tips.

When to repot your plants?

The quick answer would be: when they need it and it will benefit them.

• Roots: When your plant has roots that extend far out of the pot through the drainage holes, providing more surface area for nutrient absorption is a good idea.
• Nutritional value: the fertilizers in a potting soil are consumed by the plant in 6-8 months. Its substrate then becomes poor and repotting with fresh potting soil will do it the world of good. In fact, new potting soil contains a new supply of fertilizer. Some plants that are not very greedy can stay in poor potting soil for a long time, but others will stop growing or even die.
• Season: Legend has it that you only repot in spring, but in reality, if the plant's environment is warm, humid and bright enough, you can repot indoors all year round. Monstera, anthurium, philodendron are quite tolerant. On the other hand, it is better to repot in spring - summer for rhizome plants, tubers, bulbs (alocasia, oxalys, colocasia etc.).

How to repot your plants?

• Soil: Choose a soil that is suited to the variety and your watering style. If you tend to overwater, choose a well-draining substrate.
• Pot size: when repotting the advice is generally to place the plant in a pot one size larger (12cm pot: move to 14cm for example).
• Handling: remove the plant from its current pot, and massage the root ball to release as much of the old soil as possible. If you are afraid of breaking too many roots, do not insist too much.

After repotting:

• Watering: Once the plant is installed in its new pot, water generously.
  If your plant is in a much larger pot, you will need to adjust your watering because the soil not occupied by the roots will remain moist for longer.
  
• Fertilizer: you can add rooting agents, or foliar biostimulants which will help the plant and its metabolism, but do not add NPK fertilizer because your new soil already contains it and an overdose could burn and rot the root system.

I hope I have given you the confidence to get your hands dirty! In the shop you will find suitable soils, technical pots and bio stimulants to properly repot your indoor plants.