Products Moss poles

Stack Pole 300

A 300 mm moss pole section that stacks. Four open lattice faces at roughly 55 percent open area hold packed sphagnum against a square core, and a bayonet spigot on top takes the next section without disturbing anything already rooted into the one below. The base section carries a cruciform foot that sits on the bottom of the pot and takes the load off the root ball.

Make yours

Tell us the size and this gets drawn to it.

This one is made to order rather than configured on screen: section height moves from 150 to 300 mm. Send a photo of the plant and the spot it has to live in, with the code PP-MP-300, and a size and a drawing come back the same day. 5 to 8 days from there.

Ask for your size Or start from a plain pot in the editor

The numbers

Size
82 mm across, 82 mm wide, 300 mm tall
Holds
1.4 litres of medium
Made to your size
section height, 150 to 300 mm
What stays as drawn
Cross-section, lattice pitch and spigot geometry stay as drawn so that any two sections stack regardless of the height each was ordered at.
Lead time
5 to 8 days
Made of
PETG, printed
Colours
unpigmented natural, moss green, slate grey, warm white (moss green as standard)
Water
Open on all four faces. Water poured in at the top runs down the core and out through the lattice; nothing is retained by the structure itself.
Tray
No tray
Where it lives
Indoors
Weight
205 g empty

These are the figures the piece is drawn to rather than measurements taken off a finished one. Send the pot it has to replace and we will move them.

What it suits

Suits

  • Monstera deliciosa
  • Monstera adansonii
  • Epipremnum aureum
  • Philodendron gloriosum and other climbers
  • Rhaphidophora tetrasperma
  • Syngonium

Not for

  • Hoya and other twiners, which grip a thin support better than a broad one
  • Anything self-supporting
  • Trailing plants with no aerial roots

A pole only earns its place for a plant that produces aerial roots. On a plant that does not, it is a stake with extra steps and a hoop trellis is the better object.

Drawn for Aroids, Pothos and Monstera, and each of those pages says why this shape and not another.

Why it is that shape

A climbing aroid produces larger leaves when its aerial roots find a moist, penetrable surface to attach to. The lattice exists to be penetrated, not to look like bark. It stacks because the alternative is the thing that actually goes wrong: a plant outgrows its pole, and the only way to fit a taller one is to tear roots off the old one. Sections let you extend upwards without touching what has already attached.

Looking after it

Water the pole, not only the pot. Sphagnum in a vertical column dries from the top down and that is exactly where the newest aerial roots are. The top of the pole is also where evaporation happens, so it is where salt collects; repack the top section's moss when you see a pale crust on it rather than trying to rinse it in place.

The pole disappears under growth within a season, so colour matters less here than anywhere else in the range.

The rest of the Moss poles

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