- 1). Remove the plant from its pot by placing your hand over the soil with the plant between your fingers. Tip the pot upside-down and gently tap it against a table or counter. Wiggle the plant loose and let it fall from the pot.
- 2). Loosen the roots with your fingers, or with a knife if they are too tight for your fingers. It is ok to score them with the knife.
- 3). Place a stone or piece of broken pottery over the hole in the bottom of the new pot to keep soil from running out. Put enough potting mix in the bottom of the new pot so that the top of the root ball is an inch below the rim of the pot. Your new container should be 1 to 2 inches bigger than the old one. Use fresh, new potting soil. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System recommends using 50 to 80 percent peat mixed with perlite, vermiculite, calcine clay, or course sand for gerbera daisies.
- 4). Fill in the rest of the pot around the root ball but do not cover the top of the root ball.
- 5). Water until the excess runs out of the drainage dish in the bottom and add more soil to account for settling. Repeat until the soil doesn't settle any more but remains level with the top of the root ball. Don't pack the soil or your may compromise its ability to drain.
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