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Agapanthus

lauraDRaTgVBylauraDRaTgVBy Posts: 1
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I have four agapanthus stuck in a large ceramic plant pot. If they were stuck in a plastic pot I’d slice the side of the pot and re-plant them into a larger pot. However I want to keep my ceramic pot so please can anyone give me a dive on how to remove them without smashing the plant pot? Am I able to saw them into quarters as you might grasses? 

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  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Not ideal but put them in a bucket of water to get the compost to loosen for some time. This could then allow you to knock them out.
    Otherwise can you use a knife and cut against the insides of the pots again to loosen the plants.
    Hope you have success.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Yes you can cut them into quarters. Once you have removed one the rest will come out easily. You might have to run a kitchen knife around the edge of the pot if it's very firmly stuck though. 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    If it won’t shift you might like to take a punt on this. At just over a fiver it’s cheaper than a new pot.

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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    Is it a regular plant-pot shaped pot? ie. Is the top the widest part?  If not, smashing  it might have to be.

    I have a 10 inch, pallet-knife, which it stick down the sides and gradually go all round the pot.  It is flexible but strong.  A kitchen one might work.  Personally, I let the compost almost dry, in my view wet compost and roots expand and push out tighter.

    When I have gone all round the pot, I bounce the pot firmly but carefully on a soft surface (a lawn).  And insert a broom handle uo it's jacksie and push.  It can be a morning's work.
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    If you have someone else around, a second pair of hands is useful to hold the pot firmly while you push/pull or wield the knife or broomstick.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • melvynpmelvynp Posts: 14
    Are there are there drainage holes in the bottom of the pot?

    If so get someone to hold a rod that would fit the hole and you hold the pot above a bring the pot down onto the rod. The bigger the drainage hole the bigger the rod you can use, the better the chance of success. 

    It would help if you could run a knife around the sides of the pot first just to loosen the rootball
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    melvynp said:
    ...

    If so get someone to hold a rod that would fit the hole and you hold the pot above a bring the pot down onto the rod. The bigger the drainage hole the bigger the rod you can use, the better the chance of success. ...
    I think that's pretty much what Bédé suggested (in more colourful language :D )



    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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