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How do I get this out of the pot?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited July 2020
    It's not big enough to get a fork in. I just wanted to pot it on. As it's a tender perennial,it'll have to go inside for the winter - if I like it.
    Still plenty of time to try both wet and dry methods😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I give plants in pots a good dunking or wetting and then loosen round the edges with an old bread knife if they resist.   Easier wet than dry I reckon.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Take some cuttings if any stems break off (or even if they don't). They root very easily. It'll most likely regrow even if you do break some bits off.
    The shrubby salvias aren't fully hardy but not particularly tender either unless you live somewhere chilly like @Fairygirl. Best if their feet are kept fairly dry when it's cold though. Mine stay outside both in pots (against the house wall) and in the ground. They die back some, but grow again.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    WET WORKED! @Hostafan1 @Dovefromabove
    Slight technical hitch. Looking for the pot I was going to transfer it to, I find that I've used it for something else😐
    Well at least it's loose now. I might try it in the ground and take a few cuttings as insurance.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Joy*Joy* Posts: 571
    I had a similar problem with a camellia in a clay pot. I wanted to move it up a size after it had been planted for less than 3 years. I did all that has been suggested, including taking a bread knife to go round the very edge of the compost, next to the pot. Eventually we managed to get it out of the pot by dragging it out by the trunk, wiggling it bit by bit. It is now in its permanent home and the blisters and scrapes it made on my arm are just about healed. It too 3 hours to get it out of the pot. I suspect that it had sent out hair roots into the pores of the clay.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    👍 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited July 2020
    Moral: never shove a plant in any old  pot to keep it going until you know what to do with it. It'll grab hold of the sides until  it's like extracting a toddler from a ball pit
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 
     It'll grab hold of the sides until  it's like extracting a toddler from a ball pit
    🤣 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Happily  in the ground.  it grew a few inches during the pot soaking stage.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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