Products Trellises

Fan Trellis 420

A flat fan trellis that prints as two dovetailed halves and assembles to 420 mm above the medium. The feet are the part worth looking at: rather than four spikes driven deep into a small root ball, it stands on a wide footplate that spreads its load across the bottom of the pot, with two short 90 mm locating pins that only need to reach the medium, not the base.

Make yours

Tell us the size and this gets drawn to it.

This one is made to order rather than configured on screen: height above medium moves from 240 to 600 mm. Send a photo of the plant and the spot it has to live in, with the code PP-TR-420, and a size and a drawing come back the same day. 6 to 9 days from there.

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The numbers

Size
260 mm wide, 420 mm tall, 14 mm thick
Made to your size
height above medium, 240 to 600 mm
What stays as drawn
Width, thickness, bar pitch and the dovetail stay as drawn. Above 560 mm it becomes three parts rather than two, because a single part longer than 300 mm does not fit the build envelope.
Lead time
6 to 9 days
Made of
PETG, printed, four perimeters on the legs and the dovetail
Colours
unpigmented natural, warm white, slate grey, moss green (slate grey as standard)
Water
Not applicable. The footplate is perforated so it does not create a sealed pan at the bottom of the pot, which would hold a layer of water where the medium can no longer drain.
Tray
No tray
Where it lives
Indoors
Weight
155 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

  • Hoya carnosa and Hoya pubicalyx
  • Cissus
  • Jasminum polyanthum
  • Passiflora indoors
  • Senecio and other twiners

Not for

  • Monstera and other aroids with heavy aerial roots, which want a moss pole rather than a bar
  • Anything over about 2 kg of top growth
  • Plants grown for a hanging habit

Bar spacing is 22 mm, which suits a twining tendril. A plant that climbs by adhesive roots will not grip it.

Drawn for Hoya, and each of those pages says why this shape and not another.

Why it is that shape

A trellis fails in one of two ways: it levers itself out of the pot, or it destroys the root ball while resisting that. The wide perforated footplate answers both, because the load goes into the bottom of the pot rather than into the medium around a spike. The fan is flat because the plants it is for want to be presented in a plane against a wall, and a flat trellis takes half the shelf depth of a round one.

Looking after it

Fit it when you repot, not into an established root ball. Two 90 mm pins pushed into a full pot will cut roots, and the plant pays for it for a month.

Pigments fade under sustained sunlight.

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