Make yours
Tell us the size and this gets drawn to it.
This one is made to order rather than configured on screen: tube count moves from 2 to 6. Send a photo of the plant and the spot it has to live in, with the code PP-RT-120, and a size and a drawing come back the same day. 4 to 7 days from there.
The numbers
- Size
- 120 mm long, 62 mm wide, 145 mm tall
- Holds
- 0.14 litres of medium
- Made to your size
- tube count, 2 to 6
- What stays as drawn
- Tube bore, lean angle and collar height stay as drawn. Six tubes is a 235 mm stand and is the practical limit before it stops fitting a windowsill.
- Lead time
- 4 to 7 days
- Made of
- PETG, printed; Borosilicate glass tubes, 25 by 150 mm, bought in; Cork tube feet, bought in
- Colours
- unpigmented natural, warm white, pale sand, slate grey, oxblood (oxblood as standard)
- Water
- Not applicable. The tubes are lifted out and emptied; the stand has a 4 mm drip channel front to back so the surface under it stays dry.
- Tray
- Tray is part of the pot
- Where it lives
- Indoors
- Weight
- 95 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
- Epipremnum cuttings
- Philodendron nodes
- Tradescantia
- Begonia stem cuttings
- Monstera single-node cuttings up to 20 mm stem
Not for
- Succulent and cactus cuttings, which callus in air and rot in water
- Ficus, whose latex fouls a small volume fast
- Anything with a stem over 20 mm
Bore is 22 mm internal. Measure the stem, not the leaf.
Drawn for Aroids, Pothos and Monstera, and each of those pages says why this shape and not another.
Why it is that shape
A narrow tube holds a cutting upright without a support, keeps the node submerged and the axils dry, and holds so little water that changing it is trivial. The 118 mm fill line on a 150 mm tube leaves enough freeboard that the cut end is never at the surface, where the water is warmest and most oxygen-poor. It is often said that water-grown roots are structurally different and transplant badly; that is widely repeated and we have not found evidence we would stand behind, so the design does not lean on it.
Looking after it
Change the water rather than topping it up, and change it often. A small volume is the feature here: 45 ml is easy to replace twice a week, and the thing that actually rots a cutting is a stale reservoir with a submerged leaf in it. Keep the leaf axils above the line and only the node below it.
This is the one item in the range where a saturated colour makes sense, because the stand is furniture and the plant material is all above it. It still fades in a sunny window.
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