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Lychee fruit shaped pot mold
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I designed this mold to make a bunch of plaster pots shaped like a lychee fruit for - guess what. Lychee plants. It's obviously more worth it to print this mold if you're planning on making at least multiple pots.
Material:
Raw plaster isn't a good idea for storing moist soil as it will degrade the material. so you can print an insert and grow the plant in it and thus isolate plaster from water. (transparent filament is really cool for this as you can see the soil from beneath) other suitable materials would be concrete, clay or epoxy resin. really whatever you want but plaster of paris is obviously the cheapest choice. from my tests. about 2kg of my plaster with 1.4l of water mix fill the entire mold fully. As i printed my mold with regular PLA, i was initially worried about the plaster overheating the plastic during the curing process, but turned out to be a non issue.
Using the mold:
5 mold parts have to be printed separately, it took me about 3 days to print. Sides have to
Material:
Raw plaster isn't a good idea for storing moist soil as it will degrade the material. so you can print an insert and grow the plant in it and thus isolate plaster from water. (transparent filament is really cool for this as you can see the soil from beneath) other suitable materials would be concrete, clay or epoxy resin. really whatever you want but plaster of paris is obviously the cheapest choice. from my tests. about 2kg of my plaster with 1.4l of water mix fill the entire mold fully. As i printed my mold with regular PLA, i was initially worried about the plaster overheating the plastic during the curing process, but turned out to be a non issue.
Using the mold:
5 mold parts have to be printed separately, it took me about 3 days to print. Sides have to
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