Big hydroponic pot (3 liters)

I really liked @Jack_43540's hydro pot, but needed something significantly bigger for my tomato plant. So I've created my own pot in Fusion and reused Jack's lid and sleeve (net pot) scaled up by 150%.

You could also take my pot and scale it down to fit his original lid/sleeve size. Sky's the limit. I'm including the Fusion project so remix away.

The pot holds about 3 liters of water, leaving some space for air roots. I'm raising a dwarf tomato plant in it and it's happy and fruiting just fine.

Use rockwool for the sleeve. Fill the pot with water mixed with liquid fertilizer (refer to your brand for proportions) so the bottom 1cm of the sleeve is submerged. Then wait a few weeks until the water level drops to about 2cm at the bottom of the pot. DO NOT let it drop more. After that - refill fertilized water as needed, respecting air roots (don't drown them). I recommend filling to about ½ - ⅔ of the pot's height. Don't worry if rockwool gets green from algae, it will stop once the plant grows and shades it.

If your pot leaks, either buy some gardening liner and put it inside or seal the pot from the inside with some epoxy. Cure it fully before adding water!

The pot fits the MK4 bed. It won't fit on Mini+.

The files include:

• my big pot
• Fusion project of my big pot
• Jack's lid scaled 150%
• Jack's sleeve (net pot) scaled 150%

Recommended settings

• OPAQUE filament, I can't stress this enough - the pot HAS TO be opaque or it will be filled with algae!
• PLA is fine
• 3-4 perimeters (4 will be near solid)
• 10-15% infill (avoid gyroid to reduce chance of leaking)
• 0.4 nozzle
• 0.2 layer height
• If scaling up/down - Fusion preferable to Slicer, but just make sure the walls are thick enough

License

I'm limiting the license to non-commercial due to Fusion's personal license restrictions. Sorry, it's out of my hands.

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