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A Smart, Clear, Dead Simple Self-Watering Planter

Bless their hearts, Boskke makes super smart planting options without leaning on needless tech for their innovation. The brand is already a familiar friend around my house and the internet, thanks to their surprisingly practical upside down Sky planter, but this new design has its feet solidly on the ground. 

Called the Cube, this planter explodes the notion of hiding a self-watering chamber inside a pot… and the idea of an opaque pot too. 

Just plant your small green buddy, fill the tank through the small hole at the top, and grow. The design hinges on the company’s “Slo Flo” passive irrigation, which uses a terracotta disk at the bottom of the planter to slowly wick moisture to the plant’s roots. The team estimates that a single fill of water can last up to three weeks in moderate temperature conditions. There’s even a triple seater, for the showboats and folks who don’t like to play favorites. 

Putting both the water and the plant’s roots on display is a fun inversion of expectations, and a bold and attractive choice when framed by the angular and refracting planter. It also makes monitoring the water level a totally passive and easy practice. Great for the yellow and brown thumbs who crave self-watering planters in the first place.

The only issue I can imagine with the design would be true of any passive feed watering - it might make a poor fit for drier plants. It does seem like it would fog up in warm or humid weather, but hey, that might still look cool. Overall it seems well considered for something so simple. 

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