New grower needs advice

[drift]

Hey, I just purchased 2 plants from the salviasource shop and they shipped quickly and in good shape. One thing that concerns me, however, is sometime during the shipping, the package must've been tilted a lot because the soil mix leaked everywhere. This leaves half of the cup they arrived in empty of soil with roots sticking out a bit. I've heard it's best to avoid transplanting for a bit, but with a large part of the soil missing, would it be better to transplant now to give the roots full soil coverage? Thanks for any advice, I'm trying to make my new plant pals happy.

[Hero4Evz]

Some people transplant right away without problem. I personally did not. My soil also came out durring transit but as long as the papertowels are still in there you could wait a couple days to make sure they stay healthy and don't go through too much. My plants were handled poorly by my university and were even laying on they're side when they went to grab them for me. They should be fine, but I let mine stay in the original cup for 3 days before I repotted mine. Unfortunatly one didn't make it but the other is doing GREAT!!!

[Sea Mac]

Hey, I just purchased 2 plants from the salviasource shop and they shipped quickly and in good shape. One thing that concerns me, however, is sometime during the shipping, the package must've been tilted a lot because the soil mix leaked everywhere. This leaves half of the cup they arrived in empty of soil with roots sticking out a bit. I've heard it's best to avoid transplanting for a bit, but with a large part of the soil missing, would it be better to transplant now to give the roots full soil coverage? Thanks for any advice, I'm trying to make my new plant pals happy.

Welcome to the Forum!

Keep any exposed roots wet! I'd refill the cup with water to cover the roots until you plant her.

Happy Gardening!

[drift]

Hey, I just purchased 2 plants from the salviasource shop and they shipped quickly and in good shape. One thing that concerns me, however, is sometime during the shipping, the package must've been tilted a lot because the soil mix leaked everywhere. This leaves half of the cup they arrived in empty of soil with roots sticking out a bit. I've heard it's best to avoid transplanting for a bit, but with a large part of the soil missing, would it be better to transplant now to give the roots full soil coverage? Thanks for any advice, I'm trying to make my new plant pals happy.

Welcome to the Forum!

Keep any exposed roots wet! I'd refill the cup with water to cover the roots until you plant her.

Happy Gardening!

Thanks for the advice.

Is it possible to overwater the roots if I keep water around them until it's replanting time? 

[carnivorous4pie]

Well considering that alot of people root their cuttings in water (me included) I think you would get away with it IF you change the water every 3 days or so so as it doesn't go stagnant. However if there is soil there (bark and peat moss etc) I wouldn't but perlite (white clump like things) Then it will be fine as long as it doesn't go stagnant.

[drift]

Well considering that alot of people root their cuttings in water (me included) I think you would get away with it IF you change the water every 3 days or so so as it doesn't go stagnant. However if there is soil there (bark and peat moss etc) I wouldn't but perlite (white clump like things) Then it will be fine as long as it doesn't go stagnant.

Thanks for the advice, dude. There's definitely perlite in there so I'll keep in nice and wet.