Rainbow Heart Self-Watering Pot

We create this bigger self-watering pot for plant, but at the moment we have here avocado. You can see how grow our plant we also use with this pot our Mobile Grow Light. Just fill with water and enjoy your plant.Just look how avocado love our rainbow pot and in same way we love it.

We needed few things to make it. Below you find a list of what we used (with links) to print our project.

Project .stl files - https://cults3d.com

Printing Model using FDM Printer:

3D Printer Qidi X-Max -https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_APV5m1

Rainbow PLA Filament -https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_AAt5mZ

Post-Processing print:
Nail Files or Sandpaper

Self-Watering:

1 Shoelace or cotton cord

When we design this pot we think about how one person can give the person something special. Most of the time we give flowers to, wife, girlfriend, mother, grandmother, friend. Sometimes is hard to say what you feel and this pot helps it. We design pot using Sharp3D which we used on Ipad Pro for us is the best way to create every time and everywhere. Pot has dimension 156,6mm x 165,3 x 119mm and has the shape of heart :p Pot is made from two parts Base where is water and pot where is your plant. Next, you will see our 3D Printing Settings.

Like we know every 3D printer is different we will share our settings but it doesn’t mean our setting will work better than yours.

Printer: Qidi X-MAX

Filament: Sunlu Rainbow PLA

Slicer: Cura

Retraction Distance: 3mm

Retraction Speed: 30mm/s

Layer Height: 0.3mm

Wall Line Count: 5

Top Layers: 5

Bottom Layers: 2

Print Thin Wall: Yes

Infill Density: 10% - 20%

Infill Pattern - Gyroid

Z Seam Alignment: Sharpest Corner

Seam Corner Preference: None

Print Speed: 40mm/s

Minimum Layer Time: 20s

Printing Temp: 200 C

Build Plate Temp: 50 C

Support: Support FREE (If you think your printer cannot made pot without support just add them)

Watertight pot how make it?

Before print we need mark setting, but which one is important for us?

After few prints of pots most important is Wall Line Count and Top Layers. What we check we need minimum 1.2mm wall thickness then we use Layer Height 0.3mm then 5 Walls and Top Layers should be enough we have 1.5mm wall if you use Layer Height 0.2 then you need more Walls and Layers minimum 6.

What if this doesn’t work for my printer?

You can try print with ABS and after apply layer acetone inside pot to make it watertight. Acetone burn ABS and small amount of it just close micro whole and model become watertight.

To PLA you can use Epoxy Resin, Bee Wax or Wood Glue, but we recommend use just more walls and top layers with Layer Height 0.3mm

After when we finish print we are almost done. You can use sandpaper if you something wrong with model but most of time is ready for next steps. Now time for make Self-Watering for our pot. It is very easy solution, take one cotton shoelace and insert in one hole and move to second one. After that water will come to cord and watering plant.

Fill pot with soil I recommend Coco Soil add your plant. Coco Soil very good hold water for your plant. Fill container with water and we are done. From now enjoy your Heart Shape Self-Watering Pot.

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