I am going to eventually re-pot all of my hoyas into squat pots. Per David these are the best pots to use for our hoyas because they give the roots more room to spead out and grow! I ordered 4 inch 4.5 inch and 7 inch pots and should have them within the next 2 weeks!
Blessings,
Awanda
Hey girl...those pots are GREAT...where on earth did you find them?
sitting her whistling, waiting for shipment to come in.... They have been taking along time to get here... Let me know when they get here......
Ooooh, interesting info. Awanda! Is this a suggestion for hanging plants? Or, for all hoyas? I ask because when we trellis them up, it seems like the squat pot will not have as much height to hold that trellis upright. Are you planning on putting the squat pot into a taller pot for that reason?
Ann
I know this sounds crazy but I wish someone would make nice SQUARE squat pots. They would fit better on my shelving and in my wire baskets from IKEA.
Neat pots Awanda. will they fit inside something else for hanging or what?
Susan...I want to see these baskets from IKEA. I just happen to have one near me.
Marcy
I'm sure the 4 inch will fit into the 4.5 inch white hanging pots & 4.5 inch will fit into those 6 inch white hanging pots and the 7 inch will fit into the 10 inch hanging pots I brought from Biglots. As far as the trellis thing, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, where there's a will there's a way.
Blessings,
Awanda
When I google "squat pots" I get a variety of differnt kinds of pots, none of which look like yours. Ha. Where did you find them like that?
Marcy
Awanda...the wider than deeper pots ARE the best. I agree totally with David....When I can, I use some plastic pots painted terracotta that are actually Bulb Pots...and the hoyas love them!!! Aluminum meat loaf pans are perfect...IF you don't have to hang them!!!
Good find.
I love the pots, I found a bunch of Terra Cotta orchid pots and use them for the hoyas....they do have the drainage holes on the side, but I am just diligent with checking the moisture level!
Hey Sistah A!!!! Long time no see....
I love your pots! You got 'em at BigLots??
These are really strong hard plastic pots and I plan on drilling holes in the sides to make hanging pots out of them. The plant manager at HD has a connection to a company who makes pots, (not squat pots). He had them make a special order for me/him. Hey Sistah B, our granddaughter is here for her summer visit and I"m getting ready for a sleep-over with 4 young ladies this week-end.
Blessings,
Awanda
How darn fun that will be. My two great nieces were here from the 25th of June until the 6th of July. I did more skip skip skip to my lou, than I ever want to do again.. It's hard to keep up with young ones when your not used to it. Did wonders for my calf muscles though!!!
Great to here they are hard plastic, as I have some hangers that I picked up a couple years ago, and I can put them to good use now.
Susan, are those the wire and woven (something, maybe not wood) fiber baskets from Ikea? I've seen those here and they are really nice looking.
Susan...they are great.... Also, they make the same shapes out of plastic.
I received this hoya last spring, I had ordered a medium size plant and received 2 small plants. Instead of potting them together, I planted one in the 4.5" hanging plastic pot and one in a 4" clay pot. They both were planted in the same soil and received the same light. I did put about 3/4" of perlite at the bottom of the plastic pot when I planted. I am amazed at the difference in the growth. I have since repotted all of the hoya that were in clay pots into plastic. The plant on the right was in the clay pot.
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Holy moly Tami, that is amazing. I'm sticking with plastic pots!
What a terrific experiment!!! I think you have really done a great contribution to allof our potting questions. I shall put perlite in the bottom of my pots too... Gee..what a great idea!!!.
I have started taking the saucers from under the plastic pots, drilling holes in the bottoms and using them to root cuttings...especiall the small tender ones that like to lay down on the soil.
WE ROCK GUYS...WE REALLY PUSH THE ENVELOPE AND WE ROCK!!!!
btw...the pot of DS-70 that I potted up using the 'circular/wind it around the pot' method paid off...new growth all over the place. H. limoniaca and pusilla haven't put out new growth...but I expect it to be GREAT!!!!
Carol, will you show us an updated picture of that DS-70? I really think the visuals drive the point home.
Ann
I can't take credit for the perlite in the bottom. I'm not sure who posted they used this method befor, maybe Leslie?? But it sure works. I think it's along the lines of Christina using Leca ( I think that is what it's called ). So next spring I plan to pot them all up that way.
I do that too, especially if the plant is a bit small for the pot. I really like the # 3 (big chunk) perilite for this, but either kind works as well I think, and the big one is sometimes hard to find.
Also sometimes I want to hang up a little plant that is spraling all over in one of the little 3 or 4 inch pots and yet I don't think it has enough roots to actually repot it into the little hanging pots, so I just put perilite into the bottom of the hanging pot and then set the plant (in it's own little pot) on top of it. Then you can hang it up. That works as long as you remember to check for water needs often as those little pots dry out faster .
Marcy
I'm having a hard time finding really course perlite too. Whats up with that, almost like it's gold or something? I found some on a orchid site, but of course they were out of it at the time, and I am waitting for an e-mail from them. It's not anywhere around here, I even looked in Phoenix awhile back and couldn't find any. Good idea filling the pots up with it for the littler pots.
OH...just thought of something. I have bought a bunch of REALLY big (fake) terracotta pots to plant for the entry to the porch. They came with a saucer for the bottom...about 2"-3" deep...I am going to drill holes in them to start cuttings by laying them on the surface. Some of the smaller vined plants, like lacunosa, like some of the Dischidia I will put in the middle of that and let the vines root on the surface while still attached to the mother plant. I guess a Picture would be needed here.... Those big saucers are really useful for propagating...the big pots take up so much soil!
Tami I just placed an order with Harry of Chula Orchids for some large sponge roc, that's where I always buy mine. The shipping charge isn't that bad either.
Blessings,
Awanda
