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Example sentences for "small pots"

  • When rooted, transfer singly to small pots, place under hand-glasses, until thoroughly established, then gradually harden off.

  • It is a good plan to sow the seed singly in small pots.

  • Place in small pots in a stove or pit, where the night temperature is maintained from 60° to 65°, and syringed daily once or twice at least.

  • Begin by sowing the seed singly in small pots in light turfy loam, or peat with which a fair proportion of sharp sand has been mixed.

  • Or they may be fixed by short pegs in small pots, filled with light rich earth and plunged in the soil.

  • When large enough to handle, transfer the seedlings to small pots, and, if necessary, shade them for a few days.

  • They must never be allowed to suffer for want of water, nor should they be starved in small pots.

  • Cuttings may be taken in autumn, placed in small pots in a light compost of peat and sand, and given a little bottom-heat.

  • When a couple of inches high place them in small pots, replace them on the hotbed, and give shade till they have taken fresh root.

  • They grow best in small pots in a mixture of turfy loam and peat.

  • When a half-inch high or so the seedling plants should be planted in small pots.

  • When a half-inch high, the seedlings are transplanted to small pots, and later from there to the garden.

  • When a half-inch tall they may be transplanted to small pots.

  • The little seedlings are sometimes put from the seed flat directly into small pots.

  • If no small pots are at hand, several small plants or cuttings can be put around the edge of a four-or five-inch pot, with good results.

  • The common earthworms sometimes find their way into a pot, and while they do not seem to bother the roots, I should judge from observation that they render the soil next to useless, especially in small pots.

  • The older plants will occasionally require the roots pruned in order to keep them in as small pots as possible without being starved.

  • The fruit having now been gathered from strawberry plants, if new beds are to be formed, the system of layering the plants in small pots is the best.

  • On the same principle the use of small pots to confine the roots, root-pruning and lifting the roots, and exposing them to the sun, as is done in the case of the vine in some countries, are resorted to.

  • As soon as the seedlings are large enough to be handled, they may be planted separately in small pots, using a compost similar to, but slightly coarser than, that in which the seeds were sown.

  • In March, the plants should be repotted into as small pots as convenient, employing a good, loamy soil and ample drainage.

  • The tufted kinds are easily multiplied by separating the stems, or even by cutting off the tops and planting them in small pots of sandy soil.

  • When large enough, the buds may be removed and planted in small pots to root.

  • Treated thus the plants will soon produce new shoots, which must be taken off and pricked out into small pots in a very open soil, and placed in a very gentle bottom heat to strike.

  • When the seedlings are an inch or two high pot them singly into small pots, and replace them in heat; to be afterwards shifted when necessary until the end of May, when they may be planted out on a south border.

  • The plants established in small pots may be removed into the flowering-pans, putting six plants into a pan.

  • To be shaken out of their pots; their roots reduced and repotted into small pots in a light sandy loamy compost.

  • To grow any of these properly, they should be divided a few weeks after they begin to grow; put them in small pots at first, and enlarge them gradually.

  • Those Alstr[oe]merias that are growing freely, and in small pots, should be put into pots of a larger size.

  • Gesnerias, if in small pots, give larger as they advance in growth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small pots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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