tall pots?

[cnycharles]

Hello all,
I've had a few cases where I took a plant out of a larger pot and it had split or was a seedling/division and had long roots; when I tried to fit it into some of my aircone pots they weren't the right dimensions, usually not deep enough but plenty and sometimes too wide. A few schlimii seedlings are pushing themselves right up out of the pots I had them in and of course are suffering.

I picked up a paph division at our silent auction last year for a steal and was going to auction it, but in the meantime have noticed that that pot size would be perfect for some of these long seedlings (even some phals that I've had or received as keikis that have very long roots for the size of the plant).
The pots are black plastic size 3" x 3" x 5-3/4". Does anybody have a few of these or know where they can be found?
thanks

 

[ohio-guy]

are those pots with "open"bottoms? Just a cross of plastic to hold in the potting material? I have had some of those I got from grafted japnese maples i bought, maybe what you have is a repurposed grafting pot.

 

[cnycharles]

?hmm, have to look

(!) why, yes it does have a plastic cross across the bottom, then some plastic gutter-guard mesh holding in the media.
thanks!

 

[NYEric]

Someone, Jason Fischer I think, provided a source for tall pots previously I may have a few. PM me. BTW, stolonous growth in Phags will grow out of the pot anyway.

 

[Linh]

Someone, Jason Fischer I think, provided a source for tall pots previously I may have a few. PM me. BTW, stolonous growth in Phags will grow out of the pot anyway.

Huh? Jason has tall pots for slippers? Are you talking about the black plastic ones used for Asian cyms, like goeringii?

 

[Pete]

Charles the ones I use sometimes sound like what your looking for.. I think they are made by Anderson, not sure, but they are called BAND POTS. try to do a google for them. I usually put a couple bigger rocks or hunks of bark in the bottom and then my standard mix in the rest of it. they (slippers) seem to love it as their roots grow long and deep..

 

[Hera]

Check out Roberts Flower Supply. I think he has what you're lookig for.

http://www.orchidmix.com/cat7.htm

 

[cnycharles]

Hello and thank you all for the info, looks like the mystery is solved. Funny I never bothered to look at the bottom of the pot to see that it was 'different'

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

They're also called "liners"...a while ago someone was taking these liners, adding plastic mesh to the bottom, and punching holes in the sides, selling them as "Paphpots". They are very good..all that aeration on the bottom allows the mix to last much longer. The paphs in these pots can frequently go much longer without repotting.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Yeah, these liner pots are commonly used for growing woody saplings. I know you can buy them from Bovees nursery in Oregon.

As for deep pots, if you can get a source for the deep Cymbid pots used here in the East, they are great too and come in all sizes.

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

There is a great store in Chinatown here in NYC that sells those deep cymbidium pots...in all sizes and styles for very good prices...they look great...I use them on my paphs as well as cymbidiums.