Rick Potter
07-30-2008, 2:30 AM
It's been a while since I have posted one of my silly tips, so here goes:
We were transplanting plants from large clay pots to a planter today. They had been in the pots a LONG time and were rootbound and very difficult to remove without breaking the pot, because of it's shape.
One was fighting us all the way, and wouldn't budge. We watered it to soften it up, we pulled mightily from the top, and finally turned it upside down on two sawhorses. The pot had two 3/8" drainage holes in the bottom and I tried to push it out with a long dowel, but the dowel just sank in.
Then the light bulb came on. I fired up my compressor, put a finger over one of the drain holes, and put the air gun in the other, and presto, it slid out in about two seconds flat (still upside down).
I guess the moral of this story is that sometimes you have to think outside the pot.
Rick Potter
We were transplanting plants from large clay pots to a planter today. They had been in the pots a LONG time and were rootbound and very difficult to remove without breaking the pot, because of it's shape.
One was fighting us all the way, and wouldn't budge. We watered it to soften it up, we pulled mightily from the top, and finally turned it upside down on two sawhorses. The pot had two 3/8" drainage holes in the bottom and I tried to push it out with a long dowel, but the dowel just sank in.
Then the light bulb came on. I fired up my compressor, put a finger over one of the drain holes, and put the air gun in the other, and presto, it slid out in about two seconds flat (still upside down).
I guess the moral of this story is that sometimes you have to think outside the pot.
Rick Potter