Good answers so far, I’ll add that quite a few houseplants like to be slightly root bound due to their natural environment of growing in the boles and crotches of tropical trees. If you repot these too large/too soon they’ll go into shock and likely look shitty as they are programmed to scramble and fill up their rooting space before they start making vegetation. Outcompete the other plants for the same volume is the idea with most tropicals.
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