Introduction
A modular system which consists of a wide variety of flower pots and baseplates.
It can be used for plenty of possibilities e.g., as an herb planter in your kitchen/balcony or as a seed starter.
The plant pots are held in place by the baseplate and can be arranged as you like, you can also connect two baseplates with a wider pot.
Apart from flower pots, vases and boxes can also be used on the baseplates and for added functionality there are self-watering baseplates. So, your combination can be limitless.
Now updated with a watering can! See all updates and changes at the bottom.
For more information, please read the following chapters.
The Baseplate:
The Baseplate comes in different types and sizes but all work with the same principle, they have a grid of 5x5cm squares with each square having 4 pins. So, the flower pots then slide onto these 4 pins. The plate has oval cutouts and that overflowing water from the flowerpots can be collected there. For example, an 5x10cm flower pot and two normal baseplates can be joined together.
The three sizes of the normal base are:
Besides the normal baseplate there is a self-watering version which has an outer wall and elevated pins so water can be stored inside the plate. For more info about the self-watering version please read the corresponding chapter.
The two sizes are:
The Flower Pots:
The Flower Pots are also available in three different sizes so the planted quantities can be varied. Every pot is available in four heights (5cm, 7cm, 9cm, 11cm) in order to, e.g., building a stair like formation so every plant gets sun light. All pots have a semicircle cutout on two sides so you can easily grab them but the overhang is shallow enough to be printed without supports. To prevent overwatering every flower pot has holes on the bottom.
The sizes for the flower pots are (every pot with the 4 height options):
Vases and Boxes:
Vases are just the normal 5x5cm flower pots but without a bottom hole.
The Box is 5x5x5cm but a lid can be clipped on the top. There is also a second version of the box where a label can be put on the front. Therefore, the front needs space before it.
Self-watering:
Just put all pots in the self-watering baseplate and fill it with water. Only the baseplate has to be refilled.
For more water capacity print the “water tank” it has to be water and airtight. Fill it with water through the hole on the underside auf the tank. Now put the tank on the baseplate. The water can only escape when air can get through the bottom hole so it only refills the baseplate when its needed. I suggest to print the water tank with clear filament so the water level is better visible. It's important that the water tank is put in at last or the water level will be incorrect.
New! Watering can:
A little watering can which fits in to the system. The spout needs space before it so an equally high flower pot does not fit there. The printable lid can be put on top to prevent dirt from entering the can. Note: The lid is loose it can fall while watering.
Printing:
Most of the parts have to be watertight but the walls are thick enough so that should be no problem. If you have problems this may help you: https://blog.prusaprinters.org/watertight-3d-printing-pt1-vases-cups-and-other-open-models_48949/
All parts print without supports. The detail of most models is not that high (except for the lid of the box) so you can easily print them with thicker layers like 0.28mm without losing any detail and save some print time.
You can use any filament for printing but if its exposed to a lot of sunlight or higher temperature is suggest something like petg.
All tolerances are big enough so it should be no problem to fit everything together, even with a more inaccurate printer.
If you have any questions, suggestions, etc. feel free to write a comment.
Have fun and be creative with your formations!
Updates:
Before:
24.4.21:
01.5.21:
The author marked this model as their own original creation.