I have about a dozen little ones that need to be potted.
Do you re-use pots or just buy new ones? I have old
plastic pots that I can bleach and boil the crap out of
but maybe I should just go buy new ones. I know that
my orchids are totally disease and bug (except for ladybugs)
free. I'd hate to introduce any nasties to my little oasis.

Ruth CM

Subject: Time to re-pot!
From: "RPM1"
Date: 4/26/2004 9:58 AM Central Daylight Time
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I have about a dozen little ones that need to be potted.
Do you re-use pots or just buy new ones? I have old
plastic pots that I can bleach and boil the crap out of
but maybe I should just go buy new ones. I know that
my orchids are totally disease and bug (except for ladybugs)
free. I'd hate to introduce any nasties to my little oasis.

Ruth CM




Just use the old ones. If they're plastic, you can just wash them pretty
easily.

If they're clay, they're harder to clean, but new ones all the time would be
way too expensive.

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theoneflasehaddock

Ruth, I reuse my plastic pots but they are soaked overnight in bleach &
water, then
scrubbed, rinsed & sun dried.
I know someone that uses her dishwasher?
--
Cheers Wendy

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RPM1 wrote:
I have about a dozen little ones that need to be potted.
Do you re-use pots or just buy new ones? I have old
plastic pots that I can bleach and boil the crap out of
but maybe I should just go buy new ones. I know that
my orchids are totally disease and bug (except for ladybugs)
free. I'd hate to introduce any nasties to my little oasis.

Ruth CM

RPM1 wrote:

I have about a dozen little ones that need to be potted.
Do you re-use pots or just buy new ones? I have old
plastic pots that I can bleach and boil the crap out of
but maybe I should just go buy new ones. I know that
my orchids are totally disease and bug (except for ladybugs)
free. I'd hate to introduce any nasties to my little oasis.

Ruth CM


If you are confident, then you can reuse the pots. I'm never that
confident. You could have a virus or some other nasty that just hasn't
manifested itself. Heck, I just bought a flat of free plants to a new
members meeting, and after giving half of them away I discovered some
brown scale on one. That was a bucket of cold water. I've never had
brown scale before, so needless to say I wasn't looking for it.

Anyway... If you have the heavier plastic pots, and they don't
look all scaled up and nasty, then no reason not to reuse them. Wash
them well before (before!!) bleaching them. At least scrub off any
attached bits of bark, roots, and as much of the 'dirt' as you can.
Bleach doesn't work well on killing things it can't get to, so bleaching
a clean pot is the most effective.. If you do that, you don't need to
boil them. To me, even the best plastic pot isn't worth all that
trouble, so I just use a new one. I barely have enough time to water
the plants, much less scrub pots.

Rather than buying new plastic pots at the home center, consider
giving your local orchid grower a call. He (or she) might have some of
the pots they use, brand new, that they can sell you. That is usually
far cheaper than buying them at the garden center, and if you buy a lot
of plants from them they may give you the pots for free. If you use a
lot of pots, (oh, and some day you will, I can sense it...) then
consider getting together with a few buddies and order them by the case
from your local distributor.

--
Rob's Rules: http://www.msu.edu/~halgren
1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit

I do not reuse pots. I purchase new ones. Every time that I'm at a hardware
or home and garden store, I stack up on clay pots . I also always have a
an extra supply of cork, tree fern fiber, and various potting media on hand.

Mariana

"RPM1" wrote in message
...
I have about a dozen little ones that need to be potted.
Do you re-use pots or just buy new ones? I have old
plastic pots that I can bleach and boil the crap out of
but maybe I should just go buy new ones. I know that
my orchids are totally disease and bug (except for ladybugs)
free. I'd hate to introduce any nasties to my little oasis.

Ruth CM

Xref: kermit rec.gardens.orchids:58984

For plastic, if your time is worth anything at all, it's cheaper to replace
with new. For clay, we also find it cheaper to replace with new on the 6"
and smaller. Those big clay pots are getting expensive, so we are still
scrubbing and bleaching the 8" and larger.


--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com
"RPM1" wrote in message
...
I have about a dozen little ones that need to be potted.
Do you re-use pots or just buy new ones? I have old
plastic pots that I can bleach and boil the crap out of
but maybe I should just go buy new ones. I know that
my orchids are totally disease and bug (except for ladybugs)
free. I'd hate to introduce any nasties to my little oasis.

Ruth CM

just wondering where I could buy cheap 4" square plastic pots in bulk???

"Kenni Judd" wrote in message
...
For plastic, if your time is worth anything at all, it's cheaper to
replace
with new. For clay, we also find it cheaper to replace with new on the
6"
and smaller. Those big clay pots are getting expensive, so we are still
scrubbing and bleaching the 8" and larger.


--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com
"RPM1" wrote in message
...
I have about a dozen little ones that need to be potted.
Do you re-use pots or just buy new ones? I have old
plastic pots that I can bleach and boil the crap out of
but maybe I should just go buy new ones. I know that
my orchids are totally disease and bug (except for ladybugs)
free. I'd hate to introduce any nasties to my little oasis.

Ruth CM

OFE Int'l in Miami; Tropical Plant Products in Orlando; or check with some
of the online supply houses, there are a couple on my links Page.
--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com

"Dada" wrote in message
...
just wondering where I could buy cheap 4" square plastic pots in bulk???

"Kenni Judd" wrote in message
...
For plastic, if your time is worth anything at all, it's cheaper to
replace
with new. For clay, we also find it cheaper to replace with new on
the
6"
and smaller. Those big clay pots are getting expensive, so we are still
scrubbing and bleaching the 8" and larger.


--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com
"RPM1" wrote in message
...
I have about a dozen little ones that need to be potted.
Do you re-use pots or just buy new ones? I have old
plastic pots that I can bleach and boil the crap out of
but maybe I should just go buy new ones. I know that
my orchids are totally disease and bug (except for ladybugs)
free. I'd hate to introduce any nasties to my little oasis.

Ruth CM

Thanks.....

"Kenni Judd" wrote in message
...
OFE Int'l in Miami; Tropical Plant Products in Orlando; or check with some
of the online supply houses, there are a couple on my links Page.
--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com

"Dada" wrote in message
...
just wondering where I could buy cheap 4" square plastic pots in bulk???

"Kenni Judd" wrote in message
...
For plastic, if your time is worth anything at all, it's cheaper to
replace
with new. For clay, we also find it cheaper to replace with new on
the
6"
and smaller. Those big clay pots are getting expensive, so we are
still
scrubbing and bleaching the 8" and larger.


--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com
"RPM1" wrote in message
...
I have about a dozen little ones that need to be potted.
Do you re-use pots or just buy new ones? I have old
plastic pots that I can bleach and boil the crap out of
but maybe I should just go buy new ones. I know that
my orchids are totally disease and bug (except for ladybugs)
free. I'd hate to introduce any nasties to my little oasis.

Ruth CM

"Dada"
just wondering where I could buy cheap 4" square plastic pots in bulk???

They're not in bulk but I like these:

http://www.tindaraorchids.com/index_...ne.htm~rbottom

Ruth CM

Hi, RPM1,

I get mine at Cal-West -- http://www.orchid-supplies.com/orchid_supplies.html

.. . . Pam
Everything Orchid Management System http://www.pe.net/~profpam/page3.html

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RPM1 wrote:

"Dada"
just wondering where I could buy cheap 4" square plastic pots in bulk???