Thank you Lin. Those are not cache pot, I plant directly into the pots.
Tiffany I am one of those people that do not worry about holes in my pots. But I water very little indoors in the winter. In the summer when we have crazy rain and the pots fill up I tip them and leave them on their sides until they dry. I only do that with my succulents. The house plants sit there swimming in water and they do not care. The pots are usually dry in 2 days when it is hot summertime.
My decorative pots the plants are all planted directly in the pot.
I have gone against every rule that every pot has to have drainage and plants not sitting in water. The only plants I have killed are the ones I do not water. The only plant I make sure have drainage hole is cactus. Those I only use terracotta and drainage holes. All other plants are no hole and never planted in terracotta. Every plant I have tried to grow in a terra cotta pot had died.
These same plants have been in this pot for 10 yrs. This is a thrift store pot I picked up for one dollar. The common jade plant in the middle if you notice has a trunk it has been in there so long it has Bonsaied itself. The other plants grow so fast and thick I take cuttings and send them to people for free. It is the pot I thinned out when I offered cuttings last month. When it rains the pot fills up with water I just poor off the excess.
This would be said to be the worst thing for succulents of being wet and certain death. For me it is survival and over growth. I do not know why when every book says no, no, no. Go figure.
If you click on my photobucket link and go to my suc and cactus folder you will see how many pots I have with absolutely no drainage.
