Why do houseplants need the right size pot to grow healthy, but in nature the plant is in a “pot” that is essentially infinitely huge?

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Why do houseplants need the right size pot to grow healthy, but in nature the plant is in a “pot” that is essentially infinitely huge?

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Plants in nature have their own sized “pot” by the resources available. Other plants and their roots, clay stone or other natural barriers, water available, sunlight etc. Plants that get seeded in the wrong spot just die, while others in favorable spots grow. So you only see the ones that are in the right spot, and also only for the time that spot can sustain them. Plants die all the time, but we don’t want that for our houseplants. We want them in a specific spot, usually long term and usually in a specific size. So we artificially adjust the conditions to meet the plants demands so it doesn’t die.

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