drew_thomas9•11d agoProlific Poster

I swear by those cheap plastic pots from the dollar store even after a catastrophe last July

I was out on my balcony in Phoenix checking my tomato plants after a 110 degree heatwave, and 3 of my cheap dollar store pots literally cracked in half. Soil and roots went everywhere, it was a mess (and I mean everywhere, including the neighbor's balcony below). Instead of replacing them with expensive terracotta or ceramic, I just bought more of the same plastic pots but lined them with old t-shirt scraps for insulation. Surprisingly, the plants bounced back in 2 weeks and the pots haven't cracked since. Has anyone else had luck with a weird hack like that for extreme heat?

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kelly33811d ago

Man you're lucky your plants bounced back, all my dollar store pots do is crack and then judge me silently from the trash can. I tried the t-shirt thing once on a cheap pot in Texas and it just melted into a weird plastic-shred hybrid goo.

cameron_palmer10d ago

@kelly338 at least yours just silently judged you, mine straight up exploded like a confetti cannon of dirt. I had the same problem until I started double-walling mine with old cardboard and duct tape, held up way better than I expected through a nasty stretch of 100+ days.