Ran across this site for Omaya pots- not sure if the prices are better than else where but they seem pretty good to me.
http://avplanters.com/index.html
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thank you April!
Cool! I ordered 8 of the 4 inch ones from IGS http://www.indoorgardensupplies.com/ for $18.24 plus s/h. I'm going to see how my plants like them... thought they would be useful to give away with gift plants if I don't want to pop for getting a nice ceramic pot, LOL. IGS didn't have the smaller sizes, so I may order some of these little ones.
Thanks for the link!
My pleasure as always.
Great site.. I have a few and I love them. The one thing that I noticed that's different from the ceramic waters is they are so light the taller ones tend to fall over easy when empty. I also wished they snapped together cause I'm clumsy, so when you pick them up be sure to get both top & bottom. Other than those issues that they are GREAT!
I really like the 31/2 inc squatty one.
MsC
I'm thinking I might try some of that Krylon spray paint for plastics to jazz them up a little... I'm not really loving the white color... very tempted by the little dark green pots from the site that April found!
Hey, April -- if you're ordering pots from there, PLMK! :-)
I think I'm going to experiemnet with the spray paint idea & adding some decals...I like the plastic pots cause they are cheaper than the ceramics.
I just happen to love those pretty lil ceramic pots with the decals. I can't help it.lol
As far as the oyama pots my plants grow very well in them. Ness' Crinkle Blue loves it!
MsC
Good to know.... maybe I will order some for my minis without waiting to see how well my standards do in the 4 inch ones... It looks like they just charge postage according to actual weight/cost without tacking on one of those $5 handling charges that I find so annoying (I don't mind it when I'm ordering $100 worth of plants or stuff that takes time & attention to pack, but the handling charges annoy me when all I want is a stack of plastic pots).
Once we got a base coat on the plastic, I'll bet any sort of decals or even decopage would work... I may play around with paint pens, too... but if you get a design you like, it's probably a good idea to seal it (polyurethane comes in a nice spray can).
I was playing around with clay pots this evening, because I found some nice terra cotta pan pots that I think might work really well as small hanging pots with trailers (assuming my trailers start getting more ambitious in their growth). I got a can of "clay pot sealer" from the clearance bin at JoAnn's, and my thought was that if I sealed them to make them less porous, I may be able to avoid that problem with the terra cotta absorbing fertilizer salts etc.
You can try the minis in them, I didn't have much luck..they dried out to fast for me& started suckering like the dickens so I wick all my minis & micros.
That's an interesting thought about the clay pots. I tried a few in them at first ,because I was over waterig them but I didn't like the funky slimy feel to the outside of the pot after they had been in there awhile. I also noticed I had a probable with pwdery mildew after I started usng them, so I resolved to use them only for my begonias outside.
I'll be glad to get everything settled here so I can play a lil more with the creative stuff. I have a whole batch of nice decals to add & I need to figure out how to do it.
MsC
Hmmm.... maybe I will hold off, then. I have trouble keeping my minis evenly moist also, but using small containers and bottom watering the pots is working pretty well, and I am about to set up a bunch of them on capillary mats. I was thinking that it would be good to have the Oyama planters for gift AVs, but it may be that a cute dish or a saucer with a piece of capillary matting would work better.
I'll LYK how the clay pots work out once they've been sealed. I'm thinking that if the sealer really does make them less porous (as it should), many of the clay pot "issues" should disappear.
What kind of decals do you use? Have you seen the waterslide transfer paper that you can run through your printer? I haven't tried it (yet), but there was a thread a while back in the crafts forum about it...
Well you can try the lil oyamas & you will probable have better luck with them. For me it was feast or famine & the lil guys just don't bounce back .
Most of mine are still in a holding pattern in terrarium containers cause I know I don't have the time for them right now.lol
I bought a bunch of waterslide transfers and I've put them on a couple of cheap ceramic pots & then just sprayed them with polyurethane spray.
I need to investigate how I might add the decals more like they do when they apply them to ceramics.
The waterslide decals worked great for my purposes but I always seek a better way of doing things.
MsC
For ceramics, have I recommended the Porcelaine paints to you? They come in pens as well as in little pots of color. You "fire" them in your home oven (at 325 degrees, if memory serves), and they look like kiln-fired paints and are very durable, although it is possible to scratch them if you try, especially if you diluted with water and applied the paint thinly. DH has a coffee mug that I painted for him 9 years ago; it's been through the dishwasher a couple of times each week and still looks great. :-)
I didn't know there was such a thing for sealing clay pots. I've been meaning to try some kind of silicone sealant but ventilation is a bit rough to come by this time of year (I guess I could do it on the balcony....) so instead I've slipped some plastic sheeting into the inside. I'm wondering how this will go. I hate the look of plastic so I use almost exclusively clay for my office. (A few glazed pots too, but generally I'd rather spend the $ on a plant than another pot.)
I think I might try the oyama pots for gifts too, although giving instructions for repotting might be a pain. hmmm......
My gift AVs often come with a baggie of potting mix, because nobody wants to buy perlite etc for repotting a single plant. You could write instructions inside the pot with a sharpie... I'm thinking just trace over that line and label "perlite" under it and "potting mix (with 50% perlite)" above the line.
Silicone sealant is not a bad idea for the inside of clay pots. I like the look (and price) of terra cotta pots also. I've found some plastic food containers that fit well inside some of my clay pots, so I poked holes in the bottoms & used them as liners.