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A plant pot has two jobs: hold the plant safely and fit the room. We print these indoor plant pots from PLA that comes out of our own extrusion line — the same line that has been making 3D printing filament since 2016. The visible difference from cast ceramic is the surface: the print layers stay as a fine, even ribbing that catches raking light. If you want a completely smooth glaze, ceramic is the better material.
This category holds pots that work in different ways, and for the plant those differences matter more than the shape does.
Cover pots with no drainage hole. The Linea planter (9 cm tall, 11 cm wide, 7 cm opening) takes a small nursery pot, a succulent for example. Surplus water stays in the cover pot and gets poured off.
Plant pots with a drainage hole. Models like the textured magenta and olive pot (Ø 9–10 cm, with a saucer), the Verda pot (15 cm wide, with a matching dish) or the set of three (Ø 10 cm) have an outlet so water doesn't sit around the roots. These you plant into directly.
Self-watering. AQUA ZEN is an outer pot with a water reservoir plus a removable inner pot. You water through an opening in the side without lifting the plant out, and openings in the lower part of the inner pot carry the moisture to the root zone.
AQUA ZEN comes in three sizes: S with a Ø 9 cm inner pot, M with Ø 13.5 cm and L with Ø 18 cm. The smaller models in the other series are 9 to 11 cm tall and suit succulents, cacti and small houseplants. Exact measurements are on every product page, because the shapes differ a lot.
With a cover pot the opening diameter is the number to check: it should be slightly larger than the nursery pot, so the plant lifts out without a fight.
PLA softens at around 60 °C. Indoors that never comes up. On a south-facing windowsill behind glass it can get close in high summer, and in a car or a conservatory the pot is in the wrong place entirely. That is a property of the material, not a question of how well it was printed. These pots are made for indoor use.
The real argument for a 3D printed planter is geometry. Casting moulds need draft angles, thrown pottery needs rotational symmetry. Printing drops both constraints: undercuts, twisted ribs, hard facets and asymmetric silhouettes cost nothing extra to produce.
A printed pot also weighs far less than a ceramic one of the same size, which counts on shelves and windowsills that can't take much load.
Several pots from the same series combine well. Because we make the filament ourselves, the colour of a repeat order matches the first delivery even months later. With bought-in material a colour shift between batches is normal and shows up on the finished surface.
Damp cloth, mild soap, no dishwasher — the temperatures in there are past what the material takes. Limescale marks come off with diluted vinegar. Abrasive cleaners leave dull patches on the layer structure, so leave them in the cupboard.
