When you take a plant that has defiantly tried to grow in a pot that doesn’t give it enough space and transplant it into a bigger one, it doesn’t always thrive as you would hope. Its roots maintain the shape of its previous home, having grown inwards and not realising they now have space to travel.
It isn’t enough to move it into a bigger pot and say “there you go, problem solved”. The plant needs help to adapt to its new environment, to learn that it now has the space it needs to grow. Sometimes this requires a bit of gentle force – unknotting roots, ripping them out of their self-made caverns. It can feel like a violent, disruptive process.
I think this is what I’m needing right now. I’ve become pot-bound. I’ve used up the last few bits of soil between my hardened roots and I need to start ripping them out to see that they have space to grow into new, unknown soil.
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