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Old 06-21-2009, 01:42 PM
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When you buy pots that aren't 'just right' for ventilation and go through allllll the tools available to 'fix them'.
I had that one recently, eventually hubby got out his drill set and made some nice new holes.
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Old 06-21-2009, 05:13 PM
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I had that one recently, eventually hubby got out his drill set and made some nice new holes.

**giggles** orchid's anonymous, here we come!! I can just hear it now, "You can't fix the pot, it has to fix itself."

PS. Hubby just bought a half inch diamond tip drill bit FOR ME - so's we can FIX those pots. . .that need to fix themselves. **evil laugh**

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Old 06-25-2009, 08:28 AM
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**giggles** orchid's anonymous, here we come!! I can just hear it now, "You can't fix the pot, it has to fix itself."

PS. Hubby just bought a half inch diamond tip drill bit FOR ME - so's we can FIX those pots. . .that need to fix themselves. **evil laugh**
Surely the pot has to want to fix itself!!!

I found that a soldering iron is a quick (if slightly whiffy) way of making holes in plastic pots or enlarging the existing ones.

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Old 06-25-2009, 09:16 AM
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I found that a soldering iron is a quick (if slightly whiffy) way of making holes in plastic pots or enlarging the existing ones.
Good tip, I like that one. Not sure if hubby would apreciate melted plastic stuck on his soldering iron... but he never uses it, he'll never notice
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