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Are Your Leaves Yellow?

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Is your growth stunted? Are you wilting? Are your leaves yellow? Do you have delayed flowering? If so, you could be experiencing transplant shock. It is something that happens to both plants and humans when they move from one place to another. It is normal. It's defined as Having the inability to adapt to a new environment Being prevented from gaining needed nutrients Feeling weak or fragile for weeks or even years on end Giving up and withering away It is a common experience when moving locations. Roots become so used to their little pot, that when the gardener decides to move them to a bigger one they have a hard time adapting to all the new dirt. Maybe it has more rocks or maybe it has less nutrients. The roots who once knew where each and every pebble, fungi, and ant nest lay must get used to a new pattern of life. When we move to a new country or town we have so much new dirt to get used to. There are new streets to get used to. There are strange faces that we aren't used ...