Another version that would probably be better suited to placing with a younger plant/during a repotting process would be glazed around the top opening and then everything below that glaze line buried so that you're not losing water to evaporation above the soil line. I don't know how much of a difference this would actually make to water retention, but it could be a fun vehicle for experimenting with different styles for the ollas. These look great though!
These "O-ya"s look amazing. Here in the southwest (dry climate) they are buried to the rim as to increase the water exchange to the soil rather than to the air.
You gave me lots of ideas! What about making a plantpot with a space for water on the inside and a little something to pour the water in?Make it fun to water them instead of not fun, as it is.
I'm so in awe at her skills. I tried to throw a pot many years ago at school. It was going to be a magnificent practical work of art. It ended up as a solid brick with holes in and used as a doorstop
You're right, the silly little button lids are adorable. I loved watching them all go into the kiln sitting on their little lids. It's just such a cute shape, the bulb with the long nose and the little button lid like a little foot!
I honestly think you should have glazed the part exposed to sunlight, so water doesn't evaporate that way, and instead water can only go into the ground. At least a white slip, to reflect more of the sunlight away from the porous clay. Edit: You could try to cover the bulbous tops with aluminium foil (aka. tinfoil) or plastic wrap (aka. cling wrap), or even to coat that bulbous part with cooking oil (ideally also on the inside).
To help the baby plants for up to two weeks, the easiest thing would be timing it so your plants are in dry soil by the time you leave, then you slightly over-water them and put them in a spot that gets slightly less light than usual. (in my case: 1m away from the windowsill they live, with the sheer curtains drawn.) But I -am a very lazy plant parent- use a moisture meter instead of a watering schedule, so that makes it easier to gauge how dry the soil is.
Two of your smaller plants look like jades. If they are, you don't have to worry about regularly watering them since they're succulents and prefer having thier soil dry out between waterings. Instead completely drown them until the soil won't absorb any more water about once a month in winter and twice a month in the summer. And if you're going on a trip during thier watering time, you can either drown them right before or after you leave, whichever is closer to thier normal watering.
Great idea. I made "water chickens" this summer for my outdoor pots and they work. I have only 2 teeny holes at the bottom so the water can slowly drain.
4:31 idea for the lid (obviously for future reference): instead of throwing a separate lid, when you trim the bottoms you could use a needle tool inserted on an angle to slice in to remove the bottom/top, which would be a perfect lid and just add a little ball in the middle as a handle.
Hey Mia! I just wanna say thank you so much for inspiring me. I never thought of myself to be an artistic person but you inspired me to sign up for a pottery class. I found out I really enjoyed it and I think I found a new passion. You are like my comfort TH-camr, whenever you post it instantly makes my day better! Thank you so much 💕
Very cute! Some plants are much more resilient than we give them credit for, my spider plants, ficus benjamina and orchid survived my 2 month absence (which was unplanned). They needed some serious recovery time, but they're thriving again.
Just wanted to say, my friends and I took our first pottery throwing class today, in large part because I've been watching your vids and looked around for local places. We had a blast! We're already planning to go back, and maybe enroll in longer-term classes. Thanks for the fun videos, and for the inspiration! :]
They turned out really good! Idk if you'll read this on time or if you'll read it at all but for the smaller pots you could try the bottle and string trick. It's the same concept, you fill a container (water bottle) with water, dunk a cord inside it (cotton is what worked best with my houseplants but idk) and then you put the other side of the cord into the soil
I have a ton of wild clay that I was struggling to know what to do with as it is beautiful at cone 04 but doesn't handle a glaze firing well. These would be perfect ❤
OMGosh (not that I think it's unlistenable by any means) people always forget about things like this and lighting (her lighting is lovely but just another element people don't generally think of)
I love this project! I may do this myself. Ollas are typically fully buried in the ground. You'll get evaporation loss around the main bulb, though i'm not sure how fast. You could glaze all of it except for the part that goes in the soil (which would mean more time between refilling). I'll probably use the portion cut out from the base as the lid (cutting the hole with my pin tool at an angle and adding a knob).
I've made a these for my family in Arizona, USA. was told it kept the plants in an outside garden alive through the summer (100+F 38C) with only ~1/week filling. (mine were bisque 05 cylinders ,.25in/.6cm walls, with a lid and ended with w/ capacity ~3 C /.7L).
You can open the base totaly while throwing. So you don’t have to cut the base. But you have to do the lids anyway. Or you can throw with the base, then cut the lid part. I did ollas today. Funny, just saw your video about ollas at the same day. Good job😊
I have plastic water globes that I use for my outdoor plants when I'm gone. They have an open tube at the bottom and the water goes out very slowly, works great
My wife puts our plants in the bath tub, with a couple of inches of water, when we go on vacation...but that solution is way cool! Enjoy your travels!!!
they are very nice😊....and the reason the most plants you have survive is because they dont need a lot of care and water, only the one you have troubles with is a plant that needs more water as the others😂
Offering up something you can chew on. They way the clay reservoirs work is through osmosis; water moves from the reservoir, through the clay and into the soil. What's pulling the water out is the change in humidity; the soil is drier so water is drawn away. Problem is, so is the air. This means that water is drawn not only from the point sticking in the soil but also the reservoir bowl. So you may need to seal the bowl portion to prevent rapid water loss, otherwise your reservoirs might empty out long before you come back from your trip.
I have seen these whenever I go on holidays I always find a pottery shop to root around in, I own a glass one, but this may give me an idea of what to do in class that starts in the morning 26.9.24 9.30am. Enjoy your family and your travels, we will be waiting your return 😊
Pronounced "oya". In Spanish the double-l ('doble ele', I've also heard it called 'elye') is actually its own letter, separate from l ('ele'), it functions like a consonant Y.
Those are very cute, that's a project I always wanted to do but didn't know how to go about it so I'm going to give it a try. Thank you for your video❤
I Love how you challenge yourself. And even when you are doing things in a nonconventional way you always do a lovely job, like using stoneware instead of Terracotta clay but underfiring it so its not fully vitrified. Well done! Ollas are great. Waiting on my studio to arrive after a move and will be doing several dozen of these myself, not only for my house plants but for the garden as well. As well as some two part tree protection rings for the garden so I don't accidently brush cut the trunks.
The olla is pronounced oy-a if I am not mistaken. The double l is silent or kind of a y or long i sound. I hope you have a great reunion and trip! Enjoy your travels and time with family.
Since your olla's stick out of the dirt you should glaze the part above the soil (inside and out) and leave the part below the soil unglazed so you don't lose your water to the air.
I’ve seen olla sellers say that the distance the water travels out from the olla depends on its width, so I’d be interested in an update about how far the water spreads into the potting mix with these
Would it be a good idea to glaze the bulb and leave only the bottom porous? I would think that you tend to lose a lot of water to evaporation, so minimizing that might be important.
Fun interesting video! Thanks for sharing and good travels. I have an off topic question. I received a stack of canvas batts (circles of canvas) from a retiring potter. She used them all the time and encouraged me to use them. I have found them very helpful, especially to avoid accidentally cutting through bottoms removing items from a batt. Can you comment on use, and pros and cons of using canvas batts over wooden batts?
Idk if this helps or makes sense lol, but ive seen people put little *globs* of clay around the outside of the base of something youve already removed from the wheel, to *reaffix* it back for quick readjustments or just to hold it in place if you need to go back to it, then they just remove the globs and smooth it out after. Idk how fast they spin the wheel but it might just be a quick temporary thing to keep the clay from shifting on the wheel or being bumped off center.
I think youre supposed to make them in two parts. Like a tea pot, where the spout is attached to a place on the body that acts as a filter for the water.
Why not make the lids straight from the circle of clay being cut out from the bulb of each pot? The reference picture being used for this design looks like the lid was originally part of the original thrown shape. Is making the separate lid an aesthetic choice? Or is it more a logistical choice?
It’s pronounced Oi-ya and it’s gravity fed drip irrigation. As far as I know the tech originated from China but the word Olla is Spanish. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
You have to tell us after your trip if they worked!
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I was so glad you realised that they needed to be closed at the thin end before you had gone too far. Hope they're (your plants) happy!
As others have said, it's a Spanish word so the double L makes a y sound. So it's "oy-ya," idk what the ai voice was telling you. They look good!
Another version that would probably be better suited to placing with a younger plant/during a repotting process would be glazed around the top opening and then everything below that glaze line buried so that you're not losing water to evaporation above the soil line. I don't know how much of a difference this would actually make to water retention, but it could be a fun vehicle for experimenting with different styles for the ollas. These look great though!
These "O-ya"s look amazing. Here in the southwest (dry climate) they are buried to the rim as to increase the water exchange to the soil rather than to the air.
She could glaze the bulb and leave the probe unglazed ?
For those who want to make these but don’t have a wheel, you can use coils and build olla by smoothing the coils together!
You gave me lots of ideas! What about making a plantpot with a space for water on the inside and a little something to pour the water in?Make it fun to water them instead of not fun, as it is.
I'm so in awe at her skills. I tried to throw a pot many years ago at school. It was going to be a magnificent practical work of art. It ended up as a solid brick with holes in and used as a doorstop
@@Erika-gm2tf lol, true. but on the upside, because it was essentially a solid pottery brick, it lasted well over 10 years as a doorstop
You're right, the silly little button lids are adorable. I loved watching them all go into the kiln sitting on their little lids. It's just such a cute shape, the bulb with the long nose and the little button lid like a little foot!
I honestly think you should have glazed the part exposed to sunlight, so water doesn't evaporate that way, and instead water can only go into the ground. At least a white slip, to reflect more of the sunlight away from the porous clay. Edit: You could try to cover the bulbous tops with aluminium foil (aka. tinfoil) or plastic wrap (aka. cling wrap), or even to coat that bulbous part with cooking oil (ideally also on the inside).
To help the baby plants for up to two weeks, the easiest thing would be timing it so your plants are in dry soil by the time you leave, then you slightly over-water them and put them in a spot that gets slightly less light than usual. (in my case: 1m away from the windowsill they live, with the sheer curtains drawn.) But I -am a very lazy plant parent- use a moisture meter instead of a watering schedule, so that makes it easier to gauge how dry the soil is.
My plants have opened a help line for neglected plants. I'll show them your video.
Two of your smaller plants look like jades. If they are, you don't have to worry about regularly watering them since they're succulents and prefer having thier soil dry out between waterings. Instead completely drown them until the soil won't absorb any more water about once a month in winter and twice a month in the summer.
And if you're going on a trip during thier watering time, you can either drown them right before or after you leave, whichever is closer to thier normal watering.
Great idea. I made "water chickens" this summer for my outdoor pots and they work. I have only 2 teeny holes at the bottom so the water can slowly drain.
They turned out really sweet! I like the projects with the porous clay, very functional. We will need an update on how this worked after your travels!
Love this so much. Love it when you make homey things. Sure your plants missed you and survived.
4:31 idea for the lid (obviously for future reference): instead of throwing a separate lid, when you trim the bottoms you could use a needle tool inserted on an angle to slice in to remove the bottom/top, which would be a perfect lid and just add a little ball in the middle as a handle.
Hey Mia! I just wanna say thank you so much for inspiring me. I never thought of myself to be an artistic person but you inspired me to sign up for a pottery class. I found out I really enjoyed it and I think I found a new passion. You are like my comfort TH-camr, whenever you post it instantly makes my day better! Thank you so much 💕
Very cute!
Some plants are much more resilient than we give them credit for, my spider plants, ficus benjamina and orchid survived my 2 month absence (which was unplanned). They needed some serious recovery time, but they're thriving again.
Nice job making stand to fire upside down with the lid handle. Perfect
Just wanted to say, my friends and I took our first pottery throwing class today, in large part because I've been watching your vids and looked around for local places. We had a blast! We're already planning to go back, and maybe enroll in longer-term classes. Thanks for the fun videos, and for the inspiration! :]
how cool is this! thanks for sharing ❤️
Love them! And making mini ones is a good challenge. Switzerland is beautiful, enjoy your holiday and family visit.
They turned out really good! Idk if you'll read this on time or if you'll read it at all but for the smaller pots you could try the bottle and string trick. It's the same concept, you fill a container (water bottle) with water, dunk a cord inside it (cotton is what worked best with my houseplants but idk) and then you put the other side of the cord into the soil
I have a ton of wild clay that I was struggling to know what to do with as it is beautiful at cone 04 but doesn't handle a glaze firing well. These would be perfect ❤
Oh yes lake Konstanz is beautiful and as a Swiss citizen I cannot express how Switzerland is worth visiting ! 🇨🇭 I live in Valais in the alps 🫕
heyy, i think your studio could benefit from some acoustic panels. just a friendly audio tip!
OMGosh (not that I think it's unlistenable by any means) people always forget about things like this and lighting (her lighting is lovely but just another element people don't generally think of)
I love this project! I may do this myself. Ollas are typically fully buried in the ground. You'll get evaporation loss around the main bulb, though i'm not sure how fast. You could glaze all of it except for the part that goes in the soil (which would mean more time between refilling). I'll probably use the portion cut out from the base as the lid (cutting the hole with my pin tool at an angle and adding a knob).
They turned out so well! Enjoy your holiday ❤
I've made a these for my family in Arizona, USA. was told it kept the plants in an outside garden alive through the summer (100+F 38C) with only ~1/week filling. (mine were bisque 05 cylinders ,.25in/.6cm walls, with a lid and ended with w/ capacity ~3 C /.7L).
Aw, I love the story of your rubber tree plant! He's a survivor!
The watering vessels are super cute.
You can open the base totaly while throwing. So you don’t have to cut the base. But you have to do the lids anyway. Or you can throw with the base, then cut the lid part. I did ollas today. Funny, just saw your video about ollas at the same day. Good job😊
Because of you, I have rescued and adopted a monstera plant from the trash. Cute water thingies, good luck with the plants and enjoy your trip!
Such cute and handy little radishes!
I have plastic water globes that I use for my outdoor plants when I'm gone. They have an open tube at the bottom and the water goes out very slowly, works great
We will miss you! But, have a wonderful time with your family! ❤
My wife puts our plants in the bath tub, with a couple of inches of water, when we go on vacation...but that solution is way cool! Enjoy your travels!!!
I love those lids and that method, definitely going to try it! Have a great trip, don’t worry about us we’ll be here ❤
I love these practical little projects with clay. Bringing art and function together
they are very nice😊....and the reason the most plants you have survive is because they dont need a lot of care and water, only the one you have troubles with is a plant that needs more water as the others😂
Offering up something you can chew on. They way the clay reservoirs work is through osmosis; water moves from the reservoir, through the clay and into the soil. What's pulling the water out is the change in humidity; the soil is drier so water is drawn away. Problem is, so is the air. This means that water is drawn not only from the point sticking in the soil but also the reservoir bowl. So you may need to seal the bowl portion to prevent rapid water loss, otherwise your reservoirs might empty out long before you come back from your trip.
I have seen these whenever I go on holidays I always find a pottery shop to root around in, I own a glass one, but this may give me an idea of what to do in class that starts in the morning 26.9.24 9.30am. Enjoy your family and your travels, we will be waiting your return 😊
I would love to see an update on the plants!
Nicely done, I love the little tops on your ollas, they are very cute!
"But I didn't think". Second Famous Last Words 😂
They're gorgeous! Have a great holiday.
I think coloring and glazing everything above the soil can lead to really cute designs like honey pots, fruits or whatever, there would be dozens.
Pronounced "oya". In Spanish the double-l ('doble ele', I've also heard it called 'elye') is actually its own letter, separate from l ('ele'), it functions like a consonant Y.
Funny name, for a plant watering thing 😁
Let's call them, wat-pla 😁
Beautiful project 🙏
They are adorable! Love the little button lids 😍 Please let us know if it worked!
You may want to glaze the outside of the ollas that is above the dirt to minimize evaporation.
Those are very cute, that's a project I always wanted to do but didn't know how to go about it so I'm going to give it a try. Thank you for your video❤
I Love how you challenge yourself. And even when you are doing things in a nonconventional way you always do a lovely job, like using stoneware instead of Terracotta clay but underfiring it so its not fully vitrified. Well done! Ollas are great. Waiting on my studio to arrive after a move and will be doing several dozen of these myself, not only for my house plants but for the garden as well. As well as some two part tree protection rings for the garden so I don't accidently brush cut the trunks.
Safe travels! 🐨👍
The olla is pronounced oy-a if I am not mistaken. The double l is silent or kind of a y or long i sound. I hope you have a great reunion and trip! Enjoy your travels and time with family.
If your problem is underwatering, change the pot for plastic pots (or at least glaze your pots)
I'm obsessed with ollas theyre my fav way to water
Love this project! I hope your plants will be ok. Have fun with your family :D
Since your olla's stick out of the dirt you should glaze the part above the soil (inside and out) and leave the part below the soil unglazed so you don't lose your water to the air.
Great reclaim project
In the US, we call them "watering stakes" and they're designed so you can put an old wine bottle upside down in them!
Beautiful Ollas!
The shape you picked is gourd'geous.
We need an update when you come back! I'm curious if they will be enough for two weeks.
I’ve seen olla sellers say that the distance the water travels out from the olla depends on its width, so I’d be interested in an update about how far the water spreads into the potting mix with these
Those are so cute! Hope they work well!
Gute Idee! Die Pfennigbäume kommen auch mal gut einen Monat ohne Wasser aus.
Would it be a good idea to glaze the bulb and leave only the bottom porous?
I would think that you tend to lose a lot of water to evaporation, so minimizing that might be important.
I love this idea!
Fun interesting video! Thanks for sharing and good travels.
I have an off topic question. I received a stack of canvas batts (circles of canvas) from a retiring potter. She used them all the time and encouraged me to use them. I have found them very helpful, especially to avoid accidentally cutting through bottoms removing items from a batt. Can you comment on use, and pros and cons of using canvas batts over wooden batts?
I've tried them with earthware red clay and I think it works!
Idk if this helps or makes sense lol, but ive seen people put little *globs* of clay around the outside of the base of something youve already removed from the wheel, to *reaffix* it back for quick readjustments or just to hold it in place if you need to go back to it, then they just remove the globs and smooth it out after. Idk how fast they spin the wheel but it might just be a quick temporary thing to keep the clay from shifting on the wheel or being bumped off center.
I think youre supposed to make them in two parts. Like a tea pot, where the spout is attached to a place on the body that acts as a filter for the water.
Please let us know whether it worked as you had wanted!
Super cute but where did you get that watering can???!!! I need it
Olla is Spanish for pot.
Why not make the lids straight from the circle of clay being cut out from the bulb of each pot? The reference picture being used for this design looks like the lid was originally part of the original thrown shape. Is making the separate lid an aesthetic choice? Or is it more a logistical choice?
LL=y sound, no?
Yess, should sound like o-yas
Those lids would take 1/3 the time if you threw them off the hump. Have you done any throwing off the hump?
When you were turning those lids it popped in my head that you should make little soy sauce dishes!!
Have a great trip! Do you think I could make those out of wild clay? I would pit fire it so I can definitely get low temp firing.
Yes definitely. Most wild clay is on the terracotta side of clay anyway due to the iron in it that acts as a flux.
I’ve got to hand it to you for making a TH-cam channel with 125k subs while failing at damn near everything you try. Congrats
Skulle du inte bara öppnat upp botten så det kunde bli locket ?
Consider wiping the dust off their leaves with a damp spong, it helps them absorb more light and makes a huge improvement to their appearance.
YES❤
16:00 - *Me wondering if you've just created tiny ceramic bombs as the internal air has no where to go*
What brand clay is it?
My aunt has had a rubber tree for like 30 years
Wait? You just bisque fired them?
use a plastic cup for a chuck.............
Your crassulas can live al three weeks without watering at all. The rest of plans are more waterloving
i think you have the strongest rubber tree i've seen haha
It’s pronounced Oi-ya and it’s gravity fed drip irrigation. As far as I know the tech originated from China but the word Olla is Spanish. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Just double checked: Ollas (pronounced “oh yahs”) are an old mode of irrigation that originated in China and North Africa over 4000 years ago.
Olla (oya)
They're "oi-ya"s
You should never water plants on a schedule!
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It’s Spanish, so it’s pronounced “oy-ya”
Don't leave them open to air, they'll become a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Put a lid on them.
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You are so not a plant person - that's a female rubber tree.