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How To Repot an African Violet

The most important thing you can do for your violets is to repot them. You can have everything else right, but if your soil is not good, nothing else will matter. A lot of people hate to repot their violets. They are afraid the plant will die from shock and maybe that's happened to you in the past, but there is a trick to repotting that can minimize all that which can keep your plants from going into shock and this is how to do it. HOW TO REMOVE OLD SOIL FROM ROOTS I'd like to say that it was the gentle way I removed the old mix off the roots and maybe that was a big part of it but I think it was also that I put all of them on wick watering in a lighter mix that also made them flourish after repotting. But I have been successful at repotting for bottom watering too without transplant shock so it's worked for me both ways. I did figure out that repotting when the dirt was a little on the dry side made it easier to crumble the old stuff off the roots. I als

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