Dr. Hexbear what do I do? Please save her, I just got her. I don’t know how to take care of children. I’m keeping her outdoors (in New England), where babies should be kept
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Why do you think it needs new soil? What kind of soil do you recommend?
Be really careful about what kinda soil you wanna pop one of these into. A hydro store will have some fancy stuff but otherwise I'd recommend popping one into some Mel's mix (essentially 1/3 compost blend of preferably 4+ composts and I'd suggest using chicken manure as the base/primary here, 1/3 peat or coco coir, 1/3 perlite). Whatever you do make sure the soil you buy is labeled for containers and probably stay away from miracle gro unless there's a fancy option they have now.
What about repotting it in the yard? How does that change things?
You don't know if your yard dirt has what the plant needs, so you'll probably still want to add some kind of soil mix to wherever you plant it. Try to pick a spot with similar sunlight to whatever its been getting and pull weeds around the base every so often and that should work fine.