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Feb 14, 2016 5:08 PM CST
Name: woofie
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Ah, thanks. I was considering repotting because the whole thing was so soggy, but that sounds like a bad idea since it's in bloom. It's in a small plastic container with slits in the sides, but the medium appears to be regular potting soil. This was inserted inside another, larger plastic container (with no drainage) filled with more potting soil which was in turn inserted into a decorative metal pot (obviously, again, no drainage) with a bunch of moss stuffed in to hide the soil. So I got rid of all the moss, took the small pot out of the larger pot and set it inside a clay pot about the size of the larger plastic pot. Some of the roots are exposed, tho, as they hang out over the smallest pot. Then I set the whole thing back inside the cute little decorative pot. There's plenty of air space to allow things to dry out. Does that sound ok, or should I worry about those exposed roots?
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