Choosing new plants is always a great pleasure, whether to enhance the decoration of your interior. To bring a touch of greenery or new plants for your exterior. Depending on your desires, your tastes, the space you have or even your exposure, you will be spoiled for choice. With a multitude of plants, each one as beautiful as the next, of varying sizes, shapes and colors. However, choosing a pot to accompany your plant often proves complicated, due to the numerous differences in sizes and materials offered. We put here we highlight the importance of the size of the pot that you will need to choose to repot your new plant.

A pot size that matches the size of your plant

At La Green Touch, we advise you not to keep your plant for too long in its original plastic pot. Repot it quickly in a pot made of clay, terracotta, or other suitable material. You will also find advice on the materials best suited to your plants in the article What POTS material for your plants ? Indeed, the pot in The plastic in which the plant is initially sold is often too small, and its roots suffer. In order to encourage the growth of your plant and allow it to breathe, you will always need to choose a larger pot. The choice of pot size is therefore very important.

However, it is not always easy to know exactly what size pot to choose for your new plant when repotting. Indeed, even if you have chosen to decorate your interior with a large plant, a Monstera or a banana tree for example, your plant has probably not yet reached its size '' adult'' when you purchase it. You will therefore need to change POTS throughout its growth by adapting the size.

Different POTS as your plant grows

Pot sizes are listed by diameter. The golden rule for choosing the size of your pot is as follows: you will need to respect the pot/plant proportions at one third of the pot, two thirds of your plant . The height of the pot you choose must therefore be equivalent to a third of the height of the plant. Thus, a pot of 18 to 20 centimeters in diameter will accommodate a plant of 80 centimeters to 1.20m in height. Throughout the growth of your plant, and until it has reached its maximum size, you will need to change the pot regularly so that it does not feel cramped.

Keep in mind that with each new repotting of your plant in the development phase, you will have to choose a new pot 2 to 3 cm larger than the previous one, no more since a pot too large will not suit it. will not be favorable either! Once your plant has reached maturity, choose a pot of the same size or just slightly larger and remember to renew it carefully. your potting soil.

Discover our selection of magnificent POTS at La Green Touch, handmade by Moroccan artisans, and which will enhance your plant.