houseplant growing support
2025 | Private individual project
Duration: 1 week
In this project, a support was developed to stabilize climbing plants. The support can be attached to existing growing support poles, ensuring that these remain fixed in position.
Simplifying the care for large houseplants
Climbing plants require stable structures in order to grow upright, which is desirable when they are used as indoor plants. For this purpose, they are attached to poles made of natural materials.
For smaller plants, these sticks can simply be stuck into the potting soil, but as the sticks get taller, they tend to tip over due to a lack of stability. This problem can be avoided with a secure attachment.
To stabilize the growing supports, they are connected to the outside of the flower pots. This allows the resulting forces to be transferred to the flower pot.
The construction consists of a ring-shaped bracket that is attached to the plant support. It is fastened to the flower pot using three connecting rods and connecting elements. For easy attachment, the upper bracket can be opened and fastened with screws.
Technical Approach
The lower connecting elements are plugged onto the edge of the flower pot.
The individual parts are connected by joints so that the holder can be adjusted to different sizes of plants and flower pots. This way, the angles between the plant support and the flower pot can be changed.
The root ball of indoor plants is usually located in the center of the flower pot, which means that the support cannot be attached there. For this reason, the support was positioned off-center. To make this possible, the angle of the connecting elements was adjusted.
The plant support is optimized for production using 3D printing. To achieve this, the joints of the bracket were designed so that they could be produced from a single material in a single printing process.
Design process
To develop the initial design, sketches were first created.
Once the shape had been defined, several prototypes were made to ensure functionality and find a consistent design.
Lastly, the models were optimized for efficient 3D printing.