Ollas: A Collection of Information and Techniques
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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This video is part research project, part experiment, and all about Ollas. Ollas are clay pots that are used for irrigation. The second half of this video was a bit rushed and is lacking cool animations. I will update it when I can. Here are some helpful online resources:
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I live in a relatively wet ecosystem, so I don't really need ollas, but I've found that growing some of my garden plants in partially buried terracotta pots is doubly useful. For one thing, I can grow plants that like warmth and dryness a bit more (like peppers) in the pots, so the have a bit of an advantage in the rain. But also, when we have a dry spell, I can water into the pots directly, which then act like ollas for the plants in the ground. The real advantage here is that if I can keep my surface mulch a little drier, I don't have to worry about slugs nearly as much, and there are always a ton of slugs.
Cool video dude. Keep it up!
Finally, someone who mentions how far to space them! THANK YOU I have been looking for a while now.
While hiking in Anza Borrego, I came across a pot that I now realize was an olla. I knew it was a pot, but I didn’t know what it was used for. Thank you for explaining.
I made my first olla from an unglazed terra cotta pot, sealing a piece of broken tile over the hole (from the inside) with a little wet cement, and then adding cement to cover over that little tile and out to the edges of the pot (smoothing it with my finger to make sure it's sealed nicely). Then I used the terra cotta lid to set on top. I got that idea from youtube last year. I guess that sealing two together would give you a lot more water capacity, but I don't really need that much in my little raised bed garden. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EXPLAINING ABOUT HOW TO SPACE THESE OUT!
هل تقصد ان الغطاء يقلل رشح الماء من الاوله وبالتالي حفاظ اكتر علي الماء
I liked the music! Like the animation, it helped me to focus in on the ideas. I am taking a permaculture course and a pottery class right now so this is doubly useful! Thanks for covering different methods for building the ollas.
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Excellent. Answered all my questions. I will throw a whole series of Ollas on my potters wheel, fire them and then set them out in my raised beds. Need to get cracking as the season will start soon. Thanks for the great video.
How did it go?
Awesome video man! Crazily informative, well put together and without unnecessary contents
thanks for the info. hate the tapping in the background, very distracting.
Hate that tapping... Irritating
I thought same
Holy Moly! I really really enjoyed this video, its experimental approach and the detailed and informative narration! Thank you for teaching me about ollas, I can't wait to get into it myself and thank you for sharing the wealth of knowledge!
I've done the clay pot method with great success using 3 different sized pots (6 inch, 5 inch, and 2.5 inch I think) the 6 inch went on the bottom with its hole sealed, the 5 nests upside down inside the 6, and the 2.5 gets its outside sealed then is put on top of the 5 to act as the neck as well as a funnel for filling. everything got put together using clear GE Silicone #1 (100% silicone with no additives) that's just the brand I can get here easily. As long as it's 100% silicone (not the bath/ kitchen stuff!!) it's non toxic. Just make sure your clay pots are warm when you silicone them so that the pores in the clay are expanded and will bond with the silicone more readily. Doing it cold would probably work but I figure every little bit helps me from having to remake them as frequently.
Most awesome ollas video! I wish every explainer video was as good! Of course not the torturous music. For that you could face the death penalty in many small countries.
The music is like static interference, not very cool :D The rest is cool, though I don't live very far from the arctic circle so we've tons of water. Tries it out non the less.
Thank you for making this video most informative and well rounded one i have found on Ollas
Thanks for sharing. I'm in Australia, going to try some experiments when I get my next break of time!!!
Hi. I learned a little trick from RainbowGardens, a great gardening channel on UA-cam. In this, very large plastic bottles are used. I tried this and it seemed to work really well, tho I didnt do a comparison . But you get really big plastic bottles(i had a mix of 4 and 6 litre ones. Fill them with water, put them in the freezer and when the water has frozen take them out and attack them with a small awl or similar, poke lots of holes. When the ice has melted, bury them in your raised beds up to the neck. Then fill with water plus plant food(if appropriate), screw tops back on and voila! Water seemed to take about 2 days to drain away in a very hot summer. Not as good as ollas but much cheaper.
Hi, I actually saw the same video on RainbowGardens. I am planning on trying the Milk jug method myself. If you don't mind me asking, how far apart did you space your plastic bottles?
The background music you have, has some sort of background popping noise that is irritating when listening via earphones
If anyone is in Central FL, we have a local potter who sells ollas at Green Umbrella in Winter Park, FL. They are not expensive, large is $35 and small is $25.
thank youuu :D as i dont have water in my garden at all, this would be one of main options :D. today morning i just put glass bottles like i saw on some vid here in india ppl do , but as soon as i found clay for making pots i will try this too .
I'm in the desert southwest US too, thanks a lot for this video, helps me out a lot.
Best, most entertaining olla video yet-thank you! I really liked the music...your video is quirky and off beat and made a video on the rather dry subject of ollas entertaining to watch. And to all the naysayers... he made a cool/educational video about ollas that you are watching for free. Quit yer
And to all the naysayers... he made a cool/educational video about ollas that you are watching for free. Quit your kvetching and go do something useful with your life, like make an olla, or a video about ollas :)
When you have auch water scarcity, create forests using Miyawaki Technique. It not only preserves water also gives abundant food, oxygen and shelter. Also make a pond in between the forest.
I thought something was wrong with my speakers
Great animation
Will, Great video! Looking forward to follow up.
the noise is awful! i could not keep watching.
I stayed with the video only to find out that this is sort of the very same concept that I 'invented' myself earlier this year: I took a very fine, synthetic (for reasons of expected durability over cotton and to prevent soil from entering the water zone) net-like cloth, sew it in the shape of my container, filled it with expanded clay pebbles and placed it at the bottom of 15 cm deep container. Filling soil on top I now, after a few months, see that even after 4 days of heavy sunshine the plants don't get dry, while weeds growing on the top had a very hard time. Eventually they reached the moist part of the pot, unfortunately 2 days too early, otherwise the weeds probably died. I filled the reservoir up last week with a litre of water and since it has been perfectly fine. However, replacing the synthetic cloth with a flat board of clay could be a great next step!
that sounds cool, do the roots grow through the fabric or along the outside of the bag? how did the rest of the season go?
I'm having a hard time visualizing this do you have a video on this? How has it work over time?
Great video, lots of information, thank you!
Great information, thanks for sharing! I am a hobby potter from Australia and I think I will make some. Do you have any more information on volume they should have and shape and height. Thanks
Some glues are used in surgery. If it says it's safe, it's probably safer than whats in the soil naturally.
all my questions answered. good job and well produced.
damn i liked the music it was funky
thank you for the information, for the ollas and the many methods of making them, great job :)
very nicely done. You're a great teacher.
Your taste in music is scarely interesting... I got stressed hearing the ambulance and suspense music. Is a sound you associate with people suffering being sick... I had to stop a lot the video.
Anyone ever figure out what glue to use to avoid toxicity?
Man. This is a long time ago. However,mis really well-done. Good Job.
Nice video! I appreciate knowing the firing temperature- how long would you fire one of your large ones?
Very good info ,what is glaze n unglaze terra cotta pot .why we have to use unglaze ollas pls explain as i really want to put this ollas in my raised bed garden .tks
thank you for the knowledge.you should learn about permaculture,aquaponics and cob homes
Good video, thanks for all the tips and I liked the music too!
Thank you so much for sharing your very well researched project. A hidden YT gem (prob cuz of the music lol).
p.s. did you do the animation? also very good.
Good ideas. I'll try some of them. Thanks!
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Thank you
really nice way of water preservation n watering your pĺants..
I am going to try tomorw
What is with the ticking sound while you talk? had to shut the sound off. Read the comments and I'm sure I missed great info, but the sound of ticking was too much.
Awesome! Thanks so much 😊
The music is annoying i couldn't stay to watch
DGREAT INFO GREAT ANIMATION TOO. VERY INSTRUCTIVE. IM SOLD!
Amazing video. But use rain water. Tap water may build limescale.
Some are glazed, does that impede permeability?
Gerardo V. Yeah anything that's glazed won't work, clay needs to be unglazed and low fired so that it is still permeable. Glaze is used to make things impermeable, which is what you want for food ware, but not for ollas
nice. You are very good at doing ollas !:)
Wow love this video
good call on the glue toxins. thanks for the video
the taping and clicking sounds made this video extreamly hard to watch. good info just could not absorbed it.
Nice video!.... Pretty sure you are B.J. Novak..... You sound like him..... Thanks, Novak, for the American "The Office", and a great way to grow weed and tomatoes!
Very very good job done Bro..!!!
This is great, thank you lots!
Thanks for the video, it help me alot
BRAVO! I have subscribed.
Very professional video, well done. :)
Very Good information but the music sucks it's hard to watch because the music is sooooo annoying JS but really good info I'm definitely going to use them in my garden
Great video
Intelligent thoughts , thank u
Silicone for aquariums is a good choice, it'll just turn to sand slowly.
Great information.
Hi man, still working for yoy?
I like the music :)
good job man!
Used closed captioning and didn't listened - please redo without background noise.
OMG. This seems to be extremely interesting, important info, but the background noise/music???? Please remake this video without the noise. I cannot make it through this video. 😳 Please don't get offended; please do a new vid, thank you.
Is that music or are my years no longer functional!!
horrible background noise!!
That noise in the background is really annoying!!
Great video and animated paintings but terrible background music
The hell is going on with the sound here..?
alright the music is definitely annoying. I haven't watched this in a few years. it was a final project for a class I was taking and, of course, I put everything off until the last minute. stayed up 48 hours doing the project, things got weird. I needed music at the end, didn't want to use cheesy royalty - free music so I made some weird sounds. listening to it now, I can feel how weird my headspace was while creating the movie, I don't know why I didn't do a guitar track like in other films of mine. I understand that it is distracting. I'm sorry. I'm not gonna do the George Lucas re-release, we'll have to live with it. Thanks for watching anyways!
@@wgeusz1 Relax dude.
@@S.... I just copy and paste the comment I made a long long time ago :D
That noise is really distracting and annoying!! I know you have good ideas but I can't make it through one of your videos because of that noise...I mean it's not even music. What the hell is it?? Gee Whiz!!
Debbie Zimmerman lol I know
Wanted to hear about Ollas and how to use not have a 2.5 - 3 minute lecture about how water is scarce and how to save the planet.
steven byars it was a school project bud
Try using PVC glue.
Haha I didn’t notice the music whatsoever until I saw all the annoyed humans who are triggered by a song 😂😂😂 people are so funny with the stuff they complain about.
this is the technology of empire romaine
What is that annoing clapping sound added to the recording...take it away
2:03 I...drink...your...olla
Aaah! Why the really crappy music?
get rid of the tapping, drumming sound. Very very irritating, underminind an interesting and important video. ... ok, switched off before end of video can't put up with the stupid tapping noise.
19 seconds .....then I just HAD turned that sound off .....
get rid of that ticking sound beats
very poor sound quality :-(
i like ..............?
what tf is that popping sound
the music is destroying my eardrums
Would love to watch this without the background "music".
alright the music is definitely annoying. I haven't watched this in a few years. it was a final project for a class I was taking and, of course, I put everything off until the last minute. stayed up 48 hours doing the project, things got weird. I needed music at the end, didn't want to use cheesy royalty - free music so I made some weird sounds. listening to it now, I can feel how weird my headspace was while creating the movie, I don't know why I didn't do a guitar track like in other films of mine. I understand that it is distracting. I'm sorry. I'm not gonna do the George Lucas re-release, we'll have to live with it. Thanks for watching anyways!
Just here to pile more crap on the "wtf is it with this music" pile. I'm happy since it isn't my speakers that have died. :D
that noise in the background is so annoying I'm out of here thumbs down.
If your goal is to annoy with that music, success! Couldn't learn anything, quit watching.
check out something called wetpots way better then these
what the F is all that tapping ... try to make a video that is not so annoying please.
For what is your music.
You don’t feel annoying.
But we’re really annoying. You
Tapping is very very distracting.
There is no tapping it's all in ur mind
Water Rights should NEVER be privatized!!!
alright the music is definitely annoying. I haven't watched this in a few years. it was a final project for a class I was taking and, of course, I put everything off until the last minute. stayed up 48 hours doing the project, things got weird. I needed music at the end, didn't want to use cheesy royalty - free music so I made some weird sounds. listening to it now, I can feel how weird my headspace was while creating the movie, I don't know why I didn't do a guitar track like in other films of mine. I understand that it is distracting. I'm sorry. I'm not gonna do the George Lucas re-release, we'll have to live with it. Thanks for watching anyways!
+Will Geusz It's really not that bad!
I'm going to respectfully disagree. I got 38 seconds into the video and had to stop it.
I love the soundtrack!
Hahaha I can so relate to this!
Hahahaha I think it's funny 😂