If you want to add to your houseplant collection, you’ll need pots. The easiest way to ensure your plants survive and stay healthy is to use pots with drainage holes. But drilling into ceramic is tricky.
We spoke to John Hancock, a horticulturist, and Evie Chang, an artist who works with ceramics, to learn how and why to drill a hole in a ceramic pot. Read on for their tips and insight.
Determine what you’re working with
Chang explains that the drilling technique varies depending on whether your pot has been fired in a kiln yet. “The short answer, regardless, is ‘[you should drill] carefully,'” she says.
If your pot is unfired, Chang says you can drill a hole “by hand with any drill bit and light pressure.” It’s better to go slowly and lightly so that you don’t break the pot. However, unfired pots are uncommon, and you’ll likely only run into an one if you made it yourself.
If you’ve bought your pot from a garden center, it’s already been fired. Chang’s technique “will work for either glazed or unglazed pots, though glazed pots are much tricker as the glazed surface is slick.”
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