I have been on a search for what is the best thing to put in a flower pot for drainage. I have used many things and I cannot believe I did not think of coffee filters before. Especially, considering the things I have tried, ha.
This came to me in the form of a spam email from my very own grandfather. He is one of those compulsive forwarders, but I only opened this one cause the title was "10 Things You Can Use Coffee Filters For". I already use them for things other then making coffee so I wanted to see what it said.
After reading that I looked at my plants to see which one was going to be my test plant. I decided to use the newest batch of baby spider plants. If they died nothing is lost and I will have more soon so biggie.
There wasn't any real instructions with this handy tip so I am winging it. I used a small pot so the filter reaches just about to the rim of the pot. I used 2 filters, since one seemed like it wasn't enough. Since the dirt level was going to be below the filter I had to be careful while filling around the spider plant.The waves of the filter can allow a good amount of soil to fall down, so to avoid the mess of it just take your time filling.
It has only been a few weeks since I potted the spider plants but so
far so good. The paper that is sticking out has turned a little brown
but that was expected. I really want to see how it comes out when you
are repotting. I haven't seen any soil mess in the drain saucer, and
the plant seems happy enough but I think its not liking where its
hanging more then it cares about the coffee filter right now. I might
move it next to the main spider plant to see if its just not happy with
the location.
We will see how it goes!
