Repot Your Cactus Without Pain

" How do you repot a cactus? Very carefully. It's actually a good problem to have, and that means that your plant is thriving and it needs a bigger space. But how do you maneuver around all those prickly spines? Well, I'm gonna show you a safe and easy solution. First, get some newspapers and fold it into thirds, like this. I'm gonna make some long strips right here. And then the amount of paper you need depends on how large your cactus is. Just make sure that the strip feels sturdy enough to support your plant. Now, when you're choosing how big of a pot to transplant to, you should generally choose the next pot size up from the one your plant's already in. Anything larger than that will just be a waste of space. So make sure-- First of all, I'm gonna get on my gloves. And then, you wanna take a knife and make sure that you loosen up the soil surrounding the container here. Get it all loosened up. There. Now, put some more potting soil in the pot that you're gonna transfer to. Like that, and then, wrap the cactus very carefully with your newspaper strip, like this. And then just lift it out and transfer it into your new pot. And then, you're gonna wanna carefully fill in some more potting soil around the cactus carefully. And then, take away the newspaper, and you can use some decorative rocks. Let's put around the cactus. Now, your cactus has a little more breathing room and you've got yourself out of a sticky situation."