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Calathea Makoyana repotting question

I have had to repot my calathea makoyana yesterday night, as having come back home after 3 weeks away and a heatwave, the soil was barely dragging any water. I have had it for over a year and it's a mature calathea at about 70cm tall. It did not need any more room in the pot, so I repotted it in the same size pot but with a different soil disturbing nothing from the root system. In doing so, I've only added soil at the bottom and at the top, as there was no room around the root system. Is this wrong? Should I repot it in a larger pot in spite of not needing it? My logic at the time was root system + old soil + new soil in new pot should be allowing water to work its way around it

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u/MissMcGunnerface — 24 hours ago
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Grateful for any help with this anthurium superbum

Hey community,

I'm super new to indoor plants (only a year in looking after plants in our flat in London) and have slowly but surely identified plant needs throughout last year.

Sadly, for this anthurium superbum I am completely lost for thoughts and solutions. I bought it from our local nursery in this nursery pot and I have been told to ensure the roots never get touched by water so to stick to bottom watering.

I followed this advice religiously and tried my best to ensure lighting and watering conditions are kept to: indirect but bright light, humidity (it's sat on a pebble tray) to 50% and once a week bottom watering (filtered water).

This spring I've fed it once with a general plant food diluted as per instructions.

However, it looks very dry and unhappy to me. The centre crown appears to have had a new leaf pushing but that's dried out, it is yellowing across most leaves left and roots look dry.

Is it rootbound and therefore I should repot? Pot is 12cm and plant height is 41cm base to top leaf.

I'd be grateful for your help and any thoughts on how to save it (or if I'm too dramatic and overly concerned about it ofc 😂). This is the only plant out of 12 that has had no growth this springtime and since I bought it last year.

u/MissMcGunnerface — 2 months ago