- And indoor plants bring a lot of value, I think just towards ease of mind and lowering all the stress in your mind and body.

It's, it's something that's subtle, but it's very powerful.

I am Nick, the owner of Baby Greens.

We are a indoor plant store specializing in all kinds of indoor tropicals and cacti planters.

We also offer workshops and plant design services for private and residential spaces.

I've always loved Fairhaven.

When I first moved to Bellingham, I was drawn to it, the vibrancy of it.

It's very alive just in terms of small business and community activity events, and the location is absolutely beautiful as well.

What's not to like about it?

It's, it's really amazing.

I grew up, you know, plants all throughout the house just from my mother being a major plant lady and having greenery all throughout her home.

And I think that probably carried on and influenced me as well as just something that I think always made the house feel good and, and watching her attend to to plants and bringing the outdoors in was inspiring for sure.

Personally, I am kind of a sucker for all desert plants, so a lot of the stuff actually in this corner behind me, a lot of cacti, euphorbia, unique succulents of sorts, Caring for plants, kind of designing, decorating my own personal spaces with plants has always been a passion of mine.

Something I've enjoyed as well as just an interest in, in kind of design and small business and branding.

Essentially I just decided to merge those two passions.

Plants are kind of an intimidating thing for a lot of folks and our job is really to share our knowledge in a way that approachable, because that's how plants should be, no matter your experience level, just kind of figuring out what's your situation, what do you, what's your lifestyle, what are you looking for out of your house plants and working from there.

Cultivating a, a place that people feel inspired and warm and welcomed in is really our ultimate goal at the end of the day.

Today, I'll be guiding you through the process of re-potting a plant.

To preface this process, a few things to keep in mind as far as when do we know that we'd like to re-pot our plant?

The first being if your pot has roots from your plant growing out from the bottom of the pot, that's a good indicator that it's definitely ready for a new home and some new space to grow.

Alternatively, if we are watering our plants and we notice that that water just shoots right through the pot, that's gonna be another good indicator that our plant could be a little root bound and the soil in our pot is not retaining moisture very well.

Lastly, if we have just not repotted our plants in a long time and we notice that it's been exploding with growth and it just looks, you just have a feeling that your plant is ready for a new pot, probably safe to go ahead and do so.

So things you'll need to re-pot your plant.

Of course you'll need the plant itself that you're repotting.

You'll need a pot that is just slightly larger in size in terms of diameter.

Two inches more or less is a good rule of thumb for upsizing your plant.

We will need a trow, a little shovel or a spoon of some sort.

First things first, we're gonna get our plant.

We're gonna take it out of its pot.

In this particular case, it's in its nursery, grow pot.

Often they're ready to get out of these.

If it's in a ceramic or plastic pot of some other kind, you want to get it out of there.

You can use a tool to kind of loosen up the soil around the sides of that pot, just to be able to loosen it up so it can slide right out.

So we're gonna take our plant out.

We're going to loosen the soil up a little bit.

We can kind of give the roots here at the bottom, just a little, a little massage.

Just try to gently loosen things up a little bit so then they can merge into your new soil and your new pot, just like that.

So next step, we are going to just provide a base layer of soil in our pot, our new pot, depending on the size of the pot and the plant we're doing, just a couple inches is usually sufficient.

So we're gonna get our new plant inside the pot and position, make sure that it is center.

Make sure that it is standing straight and at about the right height, we wanna allow for a small lip of the new pot.

So when we water our plant, that water doesn't just spill right over and can really absorb down into the plant.

We are gonna go ahead and fill in the sides of this plant, kind of top off that layer, and then we are complete - Made.

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