smart pot

Fabric containers that provide ideal nutrition and ideal drainage help your plants thrive.

About this Manufacturer

In 1980 a tree farmer had the idea to sew together containers from fabric. He hoped to make his trees easier to harvest. Little did he know he had just started a new way to grow trees and plants of all kinds. These fabric pots would later become known as Smart Pot® fabric containers and a revolution to the growing industry.

That tree farmer was Ralph Reiger, raising his trees near Guthrie, Oklahoma. He thought the fabric bags might hold the plant’s root structures more intact. And just a few short years later, in 1982 and 1983 Ralph was greatly surprised. Not only were the trees easier to harvest, and the roots held intact, but the roots had pruned from being in the bag! Eureka!

This meant that the root ball was thicker, bigger, denser. And showed no signs of circling like in traditional containers. This also meant that the trees were healthier. So when he transplanted them in the dead of summer they thrived.

Smart Pot was introduced into the retail market with resounding success.