Best pot for cobra lily?

[JMurphy97]

What is the best kinda pot for a cobra lily? I'm looking at this pale brown color ceramic pot. Is this good. I think it's like 7.5-8in. Would that be for life, just change the media every year? Or just go with my green 4in plastic pot?

 

[jimscott]

Deep, wide, and plastic!

 

[JMurphy97]

Is ceramic not good?

 

[jimscott]

I really don't know. I have just never used anything but plastic. However, in reading posts about appropriate CP vessels, ceramic has come up. I'd wait for others to state opinions about ceramic pots.

 

[JMurphy97]

Come on people I just got my cobra lily and it's in a little 4in plastic pot. Also would a mix used for neps be good for a cobra lily? Something like LFS mixed with this orchid mix I have?

 

[endparenthesis]

LFS in a self-watering pot works for me.

 

[elgecko]

My personal thought on use of ceramic pots is only if the pot is glazed.
My Cobras are in a glazed 6" pot.
I use a soil mix of perlite, peatmoss, LFS and lava rock.

 

[CopcarFC]

Glazed undrained ceramic pot for me. Soil is strait LFS completly waterlogged. 2 years now and my cobra still loves me.

 

[Blepharopsis]

I keep my cobras in a 6'' green plastic pot outside with about the same soil mix as elgecko uses.

 

[endparenthesis]

With glazed it's probably worth mentioning that it should be glazed inside and out. 90% of the pots I've seen are only glazed on the outside.

 

[elgecko]

Quote[/b] (endparenthesis @ Sep. 09 2006,12:07)]With glazed it's probably worth mentioning that it should be glazed inside and out. 90% of the pots I've seen are only glazed on the outside.

Good point.
I did not mention that. I only use they if the entire inside is glazed.

 

[JMurphy97]

Yea that is a good tip too. I found a pot at wal-mart that is glazed all the way around. It is also only $5.00 on clearence and is like 8in. I think that is what I will use. The color is like 3 shades of very light brown. Why is ceramic good for cobras? Does it not heat up or something?

 

[CopcarFC]

Ceramic in general destroys heat, thats why its a good choice for cobra's