ZZ Plant Root Bound and Divided - July 2021
Nat has a couple of house plants around the house that she tends to with feeding and watering and general upkeep. One of those is a ZZ plant that lives in our bathroom upstairs. It doesn't get a lot of light, but for the past few years, it seemed to just truck on and put up shoots. Until recently. When it seemed to be in decline. There was a bunch of yellowing and not a lot of new growth. Here, below, is what it looked like when I decided to take action: It looks really crowded, doesn't it? I figured it just needed to repotted, but I also researched if it could be divided. Sure enough, there's plenty of posts about dividing a ZZ plant. So, that was the path I took: divide and repot to create two plants. First things first, though: to remove the plant form the current container. Turns out, it was inside a little nursery pot inside that larger container. When I dug it out, the roots were curled out from under the nursery container and were wrapping around each ot