how do you plant plants with long roots

[WillskE]

by long roots i mean 15-20cm roots, do you just bunch them up and stick it in or do you trim it?

[Godly3vil]

I usually dig a decent sized hole in the substrate and spread the roots out as much as possible then re-cover them with the substrate.

[Li@m]

I trim the roots down to about 4cm.

[WillskE]

so the plants will be fine if you chop the roots down by like half?

[SamH]

I cut the roots of my crypts if I replant them, they grow fine and some say it even encourages stronger growth.

[Li@m]

so the plants will be fine if you chop the roots down by like half?

if they are 20cm long then i would cut them down by more than a half.

[rockgurl89]

I cut the roots of all my plants (especially crypts) and they are fine, so go for it :thup:

[TomGilberg]

Trim those roots!