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After a successful Kickstarter run , Push Planters are almost quick to hit the market and lick houseplant woes everywhere .
Crucial Detail
Credit:Crucial Detail
If you ’re ahouseplant lover , you ’re likely well cognisant of the fact that successfully caring for plants indoors can be a bit of a balancing act . Between making sure they get enough light , not overwatering them , and repotting them on time so they do n’t becomeroot bound — there ’s a spate you need to remember to check your plant baby stay happy and levelheaded .
Sometimes , even when it seems you ’ve done everything right , you inexplicably suffer a beloved flora . While the red often feels sudden , the issues are normally quite literally brewing under the airfoil for some time . One of the challenges of develop houseplants is that the first signs of distress often occur under the soil with the flora ’s antecedent . Unless you ’re on a regular basis pulling your flora out of it ’s mass to check the roots ( a messy , inconvenient , and potentially damaging effort ) these signs are easy to miss .
Luckily , there ’s an innovative young planter that might just interchange the biz for houseplant lovers who go through these thwarting . Push Planter was produce by award - winning , Chicago - based multi - corrective pattern studioCrucial Detail , and after a successful Kickstarter campaign it ’s almost ready for you to try out for yourself .
Push Planters feature a “ pushable ” bottom that allows you to easily bulge out your plants up and out of the plenty to see what ’s going on beneath the open . This can help you catch watering issues early ( goodbye , root rot ! ) and make the repotting unconscious process easier and faster with less disruption to the plant ’s root word .
“ The Push Planters are versatile and durable , equally comfortable indoors on your windowsill or outside on your porch , " thePush Planter Kickstarter pagereads . " We design them to be well draining to prevent root rot . At the same time , the glassless terracotta foot countenance water to wick back up into the soil as needed . "
Martin Kastner , beginner of Crucial Detail and product designer behind Push Planter tells us that the task was inspired by his wife ’s sexual love of horticulture and indoor plants . After one - too - many incidents of broken pots and damaged roots during repotting , Kastner wonder if modified pots could make the operation easier .
“ I mock up a few versions of easy - repot planters and settled on the push button - up system as one that seemed the most practical , " he says . " After a couple of years of using the pots at the studio , we decide to see whether other people outside of our friend circle would also apprize them and prepared the Kickstarter . ”
Kastner says since transition his container plants to Push Planters , he ’s seen a drastic melioration in their overall health and how they transition from one increase stage to the next .
“ The Push Planters have worked really well for herb likesageandrosemary , and we ’ve seen our aloe vera produce much quicker [ too ] , " he says . " We ’ve intentionally made the bases middling buddy-buddy so while the pots drain very well , they also retain wet in the wall so evenhumidity - bang plantslike calathea or ferns — that we seem to otherwise cursorily kill in conventional spate — have been doing well in them . "
Now that the Kickstarter campaign has conclude , the Crucial Detail team is working on the production and fulfillment phase . Once that is complete , they ’ll bring on fuck off the Push Planters available for purchasedirectly on their websiteand finally in other retailers .
“ Ultimately , our goal will be to grow the collection , add shapes and colors , and go on to modernise accessories for the urban gardener , ” Kastner says .
