Air-Pot 12l Tray

The benefits of using Air-Pots are:

• Elimination of root chignonage.
• Reducing growing times in the nursery.
• Possibility of planting all year round indoors or outdoors.
• Simplified production.
• At least doubling the shelf life of plant stock.
• Loss reduction.
• Superior reactions of the plant in extreme climatic conditions.
• The Air-Pot is made of recycled HDPE.
• Plants are more disease resistant, so fewer pesticides are used

Advantages full description:

Elimination of root chignonage. The 3D design of the cones of the wall of the Air-Pot and the continuous girdling by the air avoids the chignonage of the roots.

Reducing cultivation times in nurseries. The rapid development of young roots that form and colonize the root ball ensures faster growth than in standard nursery containers. Plants are ready for sale much faster.

Ability to store plants at least twice as long in the same container thanks to Air-Pot. This fact gives a very important advantage not only to nurseries, but also to garden centres, where the stock of plants sometimes remains until the following season, and to landscapers whose original schedule of work is often delayed for various reasons. As long as the water and food requirements are met, the root structure will only improve from one season to the next.

Better reaction of the plant in extreme climatic conditions. The continuous girdling by the air always gives new roots, in particular at the base of the trunk. Root tissue is not only more efficient at absorbing water and nutrients from the soil, but it is also less vulnerable to extreme cold and heat. Indeed, in a classic container all the mass of roots is found against the wall and is more sensitive to climatic conditions.

Remarkable loss reduction. Immediate recovery after transplanting means that losses are enormously reduced and therefore the quality of the stock of the plants in the nurseries becomes a selling point and a guarantee for the customer.

Simplified production. The stock of young plants can be transplanted directly into 30/50/80 liter containers, reducing repotting. In the United States the plants are grown for 4 years in the same pot. In Australia the growing times for some species have been reduced by about half. Ongoing UK trials show a significant reduction in growing times.


Use Air-Pots indoors. The Air-Pots can be used with or without a base. Ideally, when Air-Pots are used without a base, the Superoots Fielder fabric should be used under the root ball. You can also use plastic film or treated above-ground canvas. The Air-Pot container must be assembled so that the cones with holes point outwards. So that the cones closed inside force the roots to go towards the holes where the air cuts exactly on the end of the root.

The containers can be made in any diameter and height, it is the container that adapts to the root ball and not the other way around. Laterally growing roots are constantly girdled, downward rooting is not a problem. The root structure of plants grown in Air-Pot allows the plants to be moved after two months without risk of losing the substrate and deforming the root ball.