Pot up
To transplant a seedling or plant to a pot or similar container.
Pot up a Container
Renowned garden designer Jon Carloftis prefers to plant shrub roses in containers.
Pot up the bulbs. Add 3 inches of potting mix to the container, and firm it gently. Place a bulb on the soil, and twist it a quarter-turn to give it some grip in the soil. Add the rest of the bulbs, spacing them no more than 1/2-inch apart.
Pot Up a Productive Patio Garden
Put your deck or patio to work: grow vegetables and herbs in containers.
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And Pot Up Some Dreams
Once you get in the spirit of container gardening, you'll be amazed at how many places you'll find to tuck a basket or pot. You can experiment with textures, colors, and varieties of plants.
Time to pot up Bare-root plants are best planted right away. If you can't, tuck them back into their peat moss and put the bags in your refrigerator's crisper, set at 35 to 38 degrees.
Pot up the cuttings (angled side down!) into your growing media, so that the tops of the cuttings are just below the surface. You could just lay them on their sides on the potting media and cover over (handy if you forget to make the angled cuts).
Pot up spring bulbs for a colourful indoor antidote to the winter blues
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Pot up perennial divisions for spring plant swaps. Sink the pots into the ground this fall and they'll be one less chore in the spring.
Plant trees, shrubs and perennials now, so they can take root, and keep them well watered.
Pot up a few amaryllis every two weeks throughout late fall and early winter, add light and water, and you can have waves of amaryllis blooms until spring! ...
Pot up any seedlings and cuttings taken last month that have now rooted. Check on any larger plants which may need moving into bigger pots. Streptocarpus sown at the beginning of the year should now be ready for potting on into 13-15 cm (5-6 in) pots.
Pot up some spring flowering bulbs for indoor color during the winter. Store the pots in a cool, dark place, until new growth emerges from the soil, and then move them to a bright window.
Each time you pot up your seedlings, take off the bottom two sets of leaves and bury the entire stem. Why? Tomatoes have this wonderful ability to sprout roots along their stems. They are, after all, related to potatoes.
Herb Tip. Pot up herbs (such as dill, thyme and basil) to grow on a sunny windowsill and eat during the winter.
Place the second pot upside down in a tray of water.
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At the beginning of the season, I usually pot up a dozen or more decorative planters. Of course it's not that I "need" or even have room for that many pots. There are just so many interesting plants that suggest so many wonderful combinations.
I actually will pot up one plant and take cuttings in early spring to avoid babying a bunch of the little guys through the long winter months.
No worries, though, you’ll just have to pot up. Try to foresee this problem and move your seedlings before their roots tangle. Ripping and tearing roots will happen, but it is best kept to a minimum.
If you are bringing chives indoors, divide a clump, and pot up in good houseplant soil. Leave your chive plant outdoors for a month or so after the first frost to provide a short period of dormancy.
Fuchsia fans know how much fun it is to pot up a small plant and watch it grow in just a few weeks, into a stunning plant with flowers that resemble tiny ballerinas dancing down the sides of a hanging basket, or standard, or bush.
Cradling the plant stem in one hand, turn the old pot upside down and tap the bottom until the plant slides out. If the roots appear dense and matted, gently tease them apart so a few inches at the end dangle free.
PLUNGING: The placing of a pot up to its rim outdoors in soil, peat or ashes.
POCKET GARDEN: A small growing area planted with miniature and dwarf varieties.
POLLEN: The microspores that carry the male gametophyte of seed plants.
For something a little more unusual, plant a fairy fishing wand next to a pond for a magical effect, or pot up some quirky echeveria for a novelty on the patio.
PLUNGING -- The placing of a pot up to its rim outdoors in soil, peat, water or ashes.
POLLEN -- The yellow dust produced by the anters. It is the male element which fertilized the ovule.
Plunge: To place an outdoor pot up to its rim in soil, peat, sand or ashes to protect the roots from extreme heat or cold.
Note: You can even root coleus in water and then pot up the plants once rooted. Move the plants outdoors once the warmer spring weather returns.
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Pot up into a smaller rather than a larger pot and only use thoroughly composted potting mix. Do not add fertiliser. Once potted up, remove to a protected area - shady with high humidity is often the ideal. Keep there until new growth commences.
Contact the developer and inquire if you can go in advance of the bushing team and pot up plants. Try to select plants that live in the same conditions as you will provide.
When they have a few strong roots, pot up the rooted cuttings in a mixture of peat moss and potting soil, and water the newly potted plants generously for the first couple of weeks while they become established and begin new growth.
What you want is a medium that is porous, well draining, not too acid, light but heavy enough (the sand does it) to keep the pot upright even when plants get a little top-heavy.
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Loosen the root ball with a butter knife, hold the base of the plant with your fingers and turn the pot upside down to remove the plant if you use starter plants.
If you have the patience and the facilities, you can accelerate this process by bringing the seeds indoors after two months of winter temperatures and sowing them in a warm greenhouse. Germination will begin within two to three weeks. Pot up ...
Carefully remove the plant from the pot and make certain that it has several main stems with roots. If so, take a sharp knife and slice between stems, keeping a clump of roots with each division. Pot up the divisions.
Another old way is to hang them upside-down,bare roots in a cool, dark basement and rehydrating the roots a few times during the winter by soaking them in water for a few hours. Pot up the plant in late winter (Feb) and resume watering.
 See also: Plant, Soil, Flower, Growing, Water
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