When you realize

[Plantmomma]

The very first plant I have been able to keep alive (actually brought back to life) is so long! I woke up and decided to stretch Oscar out and I had no idea he was this long! He had wrapped himself around the pot and he's huge! Do I need to repot him in the Spring? Or should he stay in that pot?

 

[cpp gardener]

Oscar can stay in that pot for another year or so. They don't get rootbound like woody plants. Or you can put it in a bigger pot. Your choice.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I love it has a name, male names beginning with O are good.

 

[mikejohnson]

Now you have to take a lot of care to revive the plant, you have to change the soil of the new pot, water it well.

 

[cpp gardener]

No, really. You don't HAVE to do anything.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

No, really. You don't HAVE to do anything.

He's right. Far too often gardeners let emotion over-rule common sense and try to save plants that would be more useful in the compost heap, or try to save every last seedling that germinates when they really only have space for a few. A garden is an artificial environment where I can channel my inner fascist and populate it with the lushest and finest available; and the rest make compost to feed them.
Well, that's the idea

 

[cpp gardener]

What I meant was that the plant is thriving and doesn't need new soil or to be repotted. It's just fine in that pot, looks great and can continue to grow in that pot for at least another year or 5. I don't know where mikejohnson got the idea that it needed anything done to it.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

What I meant was that the plant is thriving and doesn't need new soil or to be repotted. It's just fine in that pot, looks great and can continue to grow in that pot for at least another year or 5. I don't know where mikejohnson got the idea that it needed anything done to it.

I beg your pardon, I don't think what I said was invalid, but it was a misconstruction of your remark.