Clay Pots in Cal.

dufflebag2002

17 years ago

Four inch clay pots are available here for .59 Cents + tax and shipping. Norma

Comments (13)

shrubs_n_bulbs
17 years ago
Link, Norma?
binki
17 years ago
(I'm so jealous!)
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borrego
17 years ago
I can do you better if you are local to the San Fernando Valley area of Southern California. .50 cents each or $5.00 a dozen..........
fred_grow
17 years ago
Is this considered a good deal? They are $.50 where I live. Have been all summer.
dufflebag2002
Original Author
17 years ago
I just don't know how much they are in the Eastern States if there is a shortage. I just stopped and the local 'Mainly Seconds' store to check out the local price.
I haven't check at my nursery yet.

I do live in the San Fernando Valley, and we certainly don't have a shortage of them. I didn't know if they was a good deal or not just reporting the price. I don't think Calif. has the problem, we have a big facory that makes them here. I was responding to those of you who said they couldn't find them where they lived. No link I was just checking out local prices, if I shopped I think I could do better as well. We could go down to the factory and buy them as well, I haven't called them yet. I use plastic pots, they are less weight and take up less room to store. Geesh, I was only trying to help a few people out, not compete. Norma
shrubs_n_bulbs
17 years ago
I wait for hand-me-downs :)
fred_grow
17 years ago
I prefer clay even though its heavy. I can always find plenty but I have to travel for the sizes I want. One store has tons of 4 inch pots but not much else. Another has 4 inch and 6 inch but nothing else. Seems like they are not as plentiful as they once were but still reasonably priced.
dufflebag2002
Original Author
17 years ago
Im only here on this forum to be of some help. I am not professional. I do not sell on Ebay or even at my home, I do sell for the Huntington Gardens, as I volunteer for all of the Shows and Sales, I do so as a volunteeer. I do know wholesale places where I can buy have been doing so for years. I have no intention of competing, that is why I don't show plants. I do share my information with those of you that request it. I still love collecting especially if I can find what the Hungtington Gardens doesn't have already. All you who can get pots for the people who can't, please do so especailly if you can get them cheap enough to be mailed. Shop at yard sales as well, perhaps you can get them for 10 cent each or less. Norma
hablu
17 years ago
quote from Norma: "I have no intention of competing, that is why I don't show plants"
i do show some of my plants, because I like them. Harry
fred_grow
17 years ago
Norma I was just interested in how prices across the country compare with what I pay at home. No big deal. I dont understand where this competion thing comes from. Who is competing and for what?
Denise
17 years ago
Speaking of clay, have any of you ever noticed the difference between "old" clay pots and "new" ones? When I pick up an old clay pot at a garage sale, it feels twice as heavy and very solid (less porous) than new ones. Does anyone know the difference in hold clay pots USED to be made vs. how they're made now?

Denise in Omaha
fred_grow
17 years ago
Hi Denise
Yes I have definitely noticed the difference. I have some oldies around the house that weigh two or three times as much as the newer models. Dont know what they're doing but I kind of like it. I use them for their porousity. The new ones really breathe and dry out quickly.
pirate_girl
17 years ago
Hi Denise,

Good observation. I too have felt the diff.(most of my clay pots are older, hand-me-downs from other folks, garage sales, close-outs, etc.)

I'm not sure the manufacturing has changed much, but it's known among potters that clay & its components (exactly how much of each component mineral, etc.) is variable from clay to clay as they come from different places.

When I was a teenager I went to art school up in Maine for 2 summers; while I was studying textile design one summer & glassblowing the other, I often hung out w/ the potters. We all used to go dig clay together in a particular clay pit they'd dug on the edge of the woods. Green clay oddly enough, not terra cotta colored, but discussions were often had how great it was that we had our own clay pit, rather than having to depend on raw clay from other locales which was known to vary sometimes from batch to batch, but certainly btwn diff. locales when compared one against the other.

Then again, maybe they're just making them lighter, I do recall noticing that the walls of the pots do seem thinner, the newer ones as compared to the older.