I totally agree about the plants. I love to watch them grow little by little. I had so many herbs die already after they seemed to be doing so well, growing like crazy, and then the get all brown and crunchy. Wth?
I got a new thai basil plant and a sweet mint, and a thai chile and serrano chile plant, repotted them into terracotta two days ago. They seem to be doing ok. The thai basil was three separate plants so I separated them into three different pots. I HOPE they make it!!
Also we finally put our passiflora vines into pots. The first one I was trying to do myself, and when I was taking the plant out of the black plastic store container the root ball fell out and the stake came out, and I heard a bunch of the roots rip.
I hope that one's ok too. The roots are so thin for such a thick bushy plant.