{"id":2217,"date":"2021-03-17T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2021-04-24T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T18:23:07","slug":"plant-pot-size-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/planter-advice\/plant-pot-size-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Pot Size Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>How we measure a pot<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When it comes to measuring a pot, suppliers often measure the diameter using the external sizes, but as houseplant lovers ourselves, we\u2019ve found that to be really unhelpful if you\u2019re picking a pot for a specific plant. Pots that only have their external measurements mean you often end up with a pot that\u2019s just a centimetre too small for the plant you had in mind!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly why we measure every pot ourselves using the <strong>internal diameter<\/strong>, meaning you can be confident that your plant\u2019s nursery pot will fit snugly inside our decorative pots. We do the same when it comes to height too, to ensure that you don&#8217;t end up with a bit of your plastic pot sticking up out of your Room For Roots pot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2227\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Non-Fitting-Pot-1.png\" alt=\"Internal measurement\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2301\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Non-Fitting-Pot-4.png\" alt=\"External measurement\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Things to consider when choosing a pot for your plant<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re planning on repotting a plant directly into one of our planters, we suggest that you have a read of our <a href=\"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/plant-advice\/how-to-repot-into-a-decorative-planter\/\">repotting guide<\/a> before you do so to avoid some rookie mistakes! But the most important thing to keep in mind is if the pot has a drainage hole or not. Without a drainage hole, you could end up risking losing your favourite houseplants to root rot, and nobody wants that.<\/p>\n<p>There are some cases where you can put a houseplant directly into a decorative pot without a drainage hole, but typically the easiest way is to just find a decorative pot that fits your plastic pot well, which is why we always recommend measuring your plant\u2019s pot before buying a decorative one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How we measure a pot When it comes to measuring a pot, suppliers often measure the diameter using the external sizes, but as houseplant lovers ourselves, we\u2019ve found that to be really unhelpful if you\u2019re picking a pot for a specific plant. Pots that only have their external measurements mean you often end up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Artist-Editions-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforroots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}