How to choose the best plant pots for your cactus & succulent collection #cactuscare #succulentscare

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Published 2022-11-10
Selecting the best, most appropriate type of plant pots for your cactus and succulent plants is very important! Cacti and other succulents can be grown in a wide variety of different pots and vessels, including plastic pots, clay terracotta pots, glazed ceramic pots, hanging baskets & pots, trays and plant beds. This video describes these different types of plant pots, growing vessels and growing styles, and highlights the pro's and con's for each type.

0:00 Video objectives & introduction
0:53 What are the plant pot options?
1:28 The only real "no go!"
2:21 Plastic pots
6:23 Clay terracotta pots
8:01 When you have both plastic & terracotta pots
8:59 Glazed ceramic pots
10:40 Hanging baskets & pots
12:38 Pots for larger & taller plants
13:34 The perfect pot?
14:01 Planting in trays & beds
15:57 Ideal pot size for a cactus: how large & deep?
18:27 Placing pots in drainage trays & saucers
19:33 Re-using pots
20:35 Recap and summary

Hopefully you find this video useful and interesting!

Happy growing!
Joe

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All Comments (21)
  • Thank you, for answering my cactus vs pots questions. Very informative.
  • @evergreen8965
    Terracotta here. I think better for the environment, and definitely more attractive. I feel keeping pots in a collection uniform in texture and color does not detract from the plants.
  • Very comprehensive video Joe. I am team terra-cotta pots, ha ha. ๐Ÿ˜Š But that is because, as you have said, of my climate here - super hot and dry! The roots get baked inside the plastic pots during our summer here in the desert. I like this video. I hope you can also give us a complete greenhouse tour. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ
  • @Cactimania
    Excellent video, Joe. I was planning on a similar video but you beat me to it haha. You covered pretty much everything when it comes to the homes we choose to plant our cacti and succulents in. I mainly use square plastic pots, as you say theyโ€™re easily available, affordable and the square ones are good space savers. I do love the ceramic fancy pots though, like the crackle pots I got a while ago. If youโ€™ve got a special plant it definitely deserves to go into a special pot. Thank you for sharing with us my friend. Have a wonderful evening from Edith & myself and happy growing ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐ŸŒตโ˜€๏ธ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿœ
  • @grainnemcgee2432
    Brilliant video Joe, all we need to know about cacti and pots!
  • @markday5797
    Good morning Joe, always enjoy your videos. Very interesting greenhouse and all of those cacti beautiful. I'm going to do a soil change on my compos, cacti in the next few days and hope not to get any barbs attacking my hands, LOL.
  • I love terra cotta pots. I recently saw a french terra cotta pot and its EXSPENSIVE!!!! $35for an 9in pot....geeesh!!!๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
  • Looking at this video again to refresh my memory. This may be your best one.
  • @irismoles9369
    Very informative my first time finding you will subscribe
  • Thank you for sharing this informative video, God bless your channel, watching from Philippines
  • A great video. Especially for those of us who are starting to collect cacti and other succulents. I greatly appreciate your videos and I hope you keep uploading more. Greetings from Spain.
  • AWESOME and very informative video on choosing the best plant pots Joe :-D and this is such a FANTASTIC topic of video, we agree its so important to have pots that have drainage holes, we see a lot of cacti especially cactus bowl arrangements for sale in the garden stores that are planted up in glazed ceramic pots and bowls with no drainage holes, and these poor plants won't last long and most likely will rot in pots without any holes for the excess water to escape, you have all your plants beautifully potted, where did you get your small plastic hanging basket pots from ? we have been searching everywhere haha and can't find any small plastic hanging basket pots even on Amazon, thanks so much for this wonderful and informative video Joe, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Bavaria for a fantastic evening XXXX <3
  • @nangp5884
    Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge about cactus and succulents growing in pots!! โค
  • Hello Joe! I enjoyed this video...I use a combination of pots for my cacti. All of the ones I bought recently are in plastic pots. Some of the older plants I have are in decorative containers that I had to use a diamond drill bit to add drainage holes. That really wasn't fun!! I jumped at 10:17 on the video...I thought you had a snake in your collection!!! Hope you have a great weekend!!
  • This was a good topic as I constantly look for pots and containers to use as pots, I'm leaning more towards using terracotta and shallow pots because here in Florida it's humid and rains A LOT. This was a very good video on the subject, now, what are your thoughts on making your own cement pots? I'd love to hear your thoughts, Happy growing my friend!
  • @Gilberto_K
    Very important video, Joe. Choosing the adequate pot is a crucial decision. Although it's not so stetic, I used styrofoam cups with my Gymnocalycium variegated and they are growing well. I have watched videos from Thailand and they also use very tall pots, but one third of the pot is filled with drainage material, so that umidity that might remain at the bottom probably would be below the substrate. I'm thinking about testing this idea. Thanks for your dedication.
  • Great video about pots Joe! This is a very helpful and comprehensive video๐Ÿคฒ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸI enjoyed watching