cincinnana

To keep your pots and containers from tipping over.
I push rebar through the soil in the pot and out the hole on the side of the pot.
1/2 inch rebar is cut into 24 inch lengths pushed into the ground.
Bigger pots use longer rebar,usually one piece will do....your call.
There is nothing worse than a bent pstem from a pot that has tipped over and has gone unnoticed for a couple of days.
Click on photo to see more pics in bent gallery.

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Bent
by
Hostafarian,
on Flickr

This is what a plant will do if gone unnoticed ....note the bend...the plant will always grow towards the light. It took three days to do this and the plants had to be repotted a straight fashion. This was severe,


Bent pstems by
Hostafarian,
on Flickr


Bent
by
Hostafarian,
on Flickr.

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Abnshrek

I've had corm bent @ 90 degrees just getting sent to me in a box previously.. :^)

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sunfish

Best drive the rebar all the way down.

Bob3

I use bamboo for pins; easily lasts a season when the potted guys find their way back into a greenhouse (of sorts).
For those plants that do need "straightening", they get re-potted with the corm rotated slightly so the p-stem is back 'straight'.

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sunfish

I must of misread the o.p.

orinoko

Wow, fortunate it came back straight again,

Now how to get a Trachicarpus to bend at an angle, or some other tropical plant..

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banana13

i got some Tc plants in the mail, they were bent at 90 degrees. i did the same i did with my plumeria, a stick next to it,twine, and forcefully straightening it. Worked like a charm.

Nicolas Naranja

I add sand to the potting mix.

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