Beginner Gardening: Pics of my first plants, with some ?'s, 1 by TheBip

TheBip wrote:
Heres my beautiful Norfolk Pine I realize the pot is awfully big, I put it in there before I learned that big isnt better >_< I repotted it today in a smaller pot. I hope it does ok cause I read that Norfolk Pines dont like being repotted very much. When I was repotting it, I was removing the extra soil from it, and I noticed the root ball seemed really small. I dont know if Its just cause its a small tree or what. The roots also seemed kind of wrapped up, so I loosened them a bit. I also noticed something else when I was loosening the roots. There was a mass of small grey "balls". I picked one out and squeezed it and liqiud shot out! ewww! I have no idea what those things coulde have been. I dont think they were larvae of any kind. I didnt know if they were good or bad, so I picked out as many as I could without disturbing the tree -too- much, then I repotted it. Also, it had 3 "trunks" (I put that in " " cause the "trunks" are so little! lol), but one died, so I pruned that off as well. I hope it does ok >_< Im not sure if Im helping or harming the plants!

Also, the little bitty pot you see next to the pine is the pot it came in *winces at size difference*

This message was edited Mar 16, 2007 10:56 PM