Organic nursery pots for US growers

Plant
the pot.

Propots are made from used coffee grounds and sugarcane. The plant goes into the ground pot and all, and within about a year the soil has taken the pot back.

Get a wholesale quote Watch a year go by

months in the ground, and the pot has turned back into soil.

7 sizes.
10 colors.
One shape for your line.

Runs on the potting machines you already own. No new equipment.

Same pot.
One year apart.

Drag the handle. On the left, the day it was planted. On the right, twelve months later.

Day 1Month 12

Pick a month

Day 1

Planted, pot and all

The seedling goes into the ground still in its pot. No unpotting, no root shock.

Illustration. Real breakdown time depends on soil, moisture and warmth.

From your morning coffee
to a greenhouse bench.

Plants growing in a row of colorful Propots pots on a greenhouse bench

A pot dug up from a garden bed after months in the soil, its walls breaking apart

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01
It starts with coffee.
Used coffee grounds that would have gone to the trash become the body of the pot.
02
Sugarcane holds it together.
A plant-based resin made from sugarcane binds the grounds into a pot sturdy enough for a production line.
03
It works like any nursery pot.
Fill it, run it through your potting machine, grow, ship and sell. Nothing about your process has to change.
04
Then it goes back to the ground.
Plant it as it is. Roots grow straight through the walls, and in about a year the pot has become soil.

What goes in.
What stays out.

Used coffee grounds

Give the pot its body and its deep brown color.

Sugarcane resin

A plant-based binder that holds the grounds together.

A zebra succulent planted in an orange Propots pot

OUT

Petroleum plastic

Nothing left in the field for decades.

[CERTIFICATE PENDING]

OUT

Chemical additives

Safe around roots, soil life and the hands that plant them.

[CERTIFICATE PENDING]

Find your size.
Pick your color.

SIDE VIEW · TO SCALEPRO120

PRO120

(120 × 94 × 93)

0.65 liters

Color · Black

Top Ø outer / inner: 120 / 116 mm
Height · base Ø: 94 · 93 mm
Pots per pallet: 26,100
Per truck · 26 pallets: 678,600
Per container · 22 pallets: 574,200

Request PRO120 samples

All seven, side by side

55 to 190 mm · 0.11 to 3 L

Built for volume.

120,000
PRO55 pots on a single 120 × 100 pallet.
26
pallets per truck, for every size.
22
pallets per shipping container.
25M+
pots a year from our manufacturing partner, making pots since 1985.

We buried them
so you can see.

A garden center trial: pots planted, left in the ground for weeks, then dug up and dried. A new pot sits in front for comparison.[TRIAL DETAILS TO CONFIRM]

Five weathered pots lifted from the soil behind one new pot — Weeks in the ground vs. brand new

The base of a used pot crumbling around its drainage holes — The base opens up first

A pot wall softening and crumbling at its lower edge — Walls soften from the bottom

A pot dug out of a garden bed with its rim torn open — Dug up from a garden bed

Who we grow with.

Growers & greenhouses

Swap your plastic liners without changing your line.

Co-ops & farm credit

One supply for every member farm, and an easy win on sustainability goals.

Garden centers & retail

Shoppers take home a plant with nothing to throw away.

Cities & institutions

Parks, schools and planting programs, with no pots to collect afterwards.

Plantthe pot.

Same pot.One year apart.

Pick a month

From your morning coffeeto a greenhouse bench.

It starts with coffee.

Sugarcane holds it together.

It works like any nursery pot.

Then it goes back to the ground.

What goes in.What stays out.