these are old photos. that's a plant at our old place in illinois — fabric pot on scrap plywood, branches spreading wide, doing its best.
look closer at the second photo. that's a bamboo stake threaded through the grommets as an anchor point, with cordage and clips holding the branches down (not in photo, sorry). that was my system. that was a lot of growers' system.
the problem isn't that growers are doing it wrong. the problem is the tools were never designed for this. hemp cord, wire ties, binder clips, bamboo stakes — all borrowed from other applications, none optimized for progressive branch training on a living plant. every grow cycle was a fresh improvisation.
i'm a mechanical engineer. i've spent my career designing systems that work the first time and keep working. watching myself MacGyver a cannabis training setup with old hemp jewelry making supplies every grow cycle started to feel like an exercise in futility.
so i got a 3D printer and sat down with SolidWorks and designed something.
the first version wasn't perfect. the hooks snapped under heavy branch loads — stress concentration at the base junction, a problem i should have caught earlier. the anchor hook was clunky. the spine was straight when it needed to curve. training hooks would peel right off. but it worked well enough to prove the concept, file a provisional patent, and start selling on Etsy.
V2 fixed everything V1 got wrong. gusseted hook bases with proper fillet radii. spline-based S-curve spine that keeps the pot interior clear for watering. a three-stage anchor system that self-locks through a fabric pot grommet and never slips. four training hooks at graduated positions for progressive branch deflection across multiple sessions.
no hemp cord. no wire ties. no binder clips. no bamboo stakes.
one device. one install. one hand. ten seconds.
death to garden wire. 🪝🌱👀💀
patent pending | made in missouri
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