Hey Leute, ich bin total neu im Anbau von Pflanzen. Ich kaufte drei Kräuter im Lebensmittelgeschäft, Rosemary, Mint und (ich glaube) Zitronenbalsam. Das Problem ist, dass sie in kleinen Töpfen gekommen sind und ich bin mir nicht sicher, wie große Töpfe ich brauche.
Ich habe es gegoogelt und es heißt, ich brauche mindestens 3030 cm Topf für Rosemary, 2020 cm für Minze und Zitronenbalsam. Braucht es wirklich so große Töpfe? Ich hätte vor dem Kauf wirklich mehr recherchieren sollen. 😅
Auch der Minze und Zitronenbalsam liegen nicht aufrecht. Sollte ich ihnen eine Art Unterstützung geben? Wie Stick? Alle anderen Ratschläge oder Tipps werden sehr geschätzt. Danke schön.
Von: R_Bluebell
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Yes, they would benefit from bigger pots. They’re crowded in their nursery containers right now. The one on the second image needs watering, that’s why it’s so droopy.
Who told you they were rosemary, mint and lemon balm? I think you have basil in the first picture (a sick basil), coriander in the second picture and maybe sage in the last.
It’s probably not best to stress them out at this stage, get them a bit healthier before you go disturbing their roots. Just keep their moisture up for a few days.
Have you been growing them indoors? In case, this is the typical growth. It is too warm combined with a lack of light. That´s why the streching in search for light and are leggy. Herbs are best to be outside in a spot where they are in the sun all day.
The information you got about pot sizes is probably for plants at their largest size. It’s fine to just move them into slightly larger pots and keep upsizing the pots as they get bigger. Or, if you use the herbs a lot and pinch them back frequently, you can probably keep them in a smaller sized pot for longer. But these all need to be repotted in larger pots at their current size.
Herbs typically need lots of sunlight and most (except cilantro, if that’s, in fact, what you got in the middle plant) thrive in warmer weather. They can sometimes do OK in a very sunny (usually Southern-facing) indoor window. Otherwise, they can do well indoors with a grow light, regular watering, and occasional fertilizer. Without enough sunlight indoors, they will grow very long stems compared to the leaf size, as they stretch out reaching for the light. The leaves will be heavy compared to the long, thin (“leggy”) stalks and that will make them more droopy like this, along with needing water.
They will probably grow a bit more upright once they’re watered and in bigger containers, but they don’t need sticks to prop them up. It’s fine even I they grow hanging over the pot a bit.
Mint usually has jagged edges on the leaves, so I’m skeptical that the first plant is mint and not basil. But if you do have a mint or any pant in the mint family like lemon balm, it will expand greatly in a pot and you want to keep it always in a pot, even outdoors, or it can become invasive and be hard to get rid of.