Products Trellises

Hoop Trellis 240

A single-piece hoop on two legs, 240 mm across, for the plants that want to be led round rather than up. It prints flat on the bed as one part, which is why it is the cheapest thing in the range to make, and it goes into a 130 to 200 mm pot without an adaptor. The legs end in the same perforated foot as the fan trellis.

Make yours

Tell us the size and this gets drawn to it.

This one is made to order rather than configured on screen: hoop diameter moves from 160 to 280 mm. Send a photo of the plant and the spot it has to live in, with the code PP-TR-240, and a size and a drawing come back the same day. 4 to 7 days from there.

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

The numbers

Size
240 mm wide, 300 mm tall, 12 mm thick
Made to your size
hoop diameter, 160 to 280 mm
What stays as drawn
Leg length, section thickness and foot geometry stay as drawn. Above 280 mm the diagonal exceeds the build envelope for a one-piece print.
Lead time
4 to 7 days
Made of
PETG, printed, four perimeters throughout
Colours
unpigmented natural, warm white, slate grey, moss green (unpigmented natural as standard)
Water
Not applicable. Perforated feet, for the same reason as the fan.
Tray
No tray
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

  • Hoya of every kind
  • Ceropegia woodii
  • Dischidia
  • Stephanotis
  • Small Philodendron scandens

Not for

  • Monstera
  • Heavy woody climbers
  • Anything that will want more than about 1.5 m of run

This is the object for a plant that flowers on old wood and must not be cut back to fit its support.

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

Why it is that shape

A hoop gives a long vine a lot of run in a small footprint, which is the actual constraint on a shelf. It is one piece because the loads on a closed hoop are all in compression and hoop tension, so there is nothing for a joint to do except become the weak point. PETG creeps under sustained load, so the section is oversized and the geometry keeps the material out of long-term bending.

Looking after it

Tie in the new growth every few weeks while it is still soft. A Hoya vine that has hardened off in the wrong direction will snap rather than bend, and the flowering spurs are on old wood you cannot afford to lose.

Pigments fade under sustained sunlight.

The rest of the Trellises

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