Bonsai benches and berry programmes punish ordinary pots twice: roots coil in the small formats, and thin walls take the sun and water badly. These air pruning pots are rolled from UV-stabilised panels, so they arrive compact and open into the size a bench needs. The studded wall stops root tips at the air, keeping the fine roots that bonsai and berry stock live on, and the roll format means a programme stocks panels rather than a rack of empty pots. Diameters run 15 to 200 cm, heights 15 to 60 cm, in PE or PVC.
A bonsai bench or a berry block asks the same thing of a container: keep the roots fine, keep the wall standing, and ship compact. These pots answer with a rolled panel form, built from UV-stabilised plastic and sized from 15 to 200 cm across.
The wall leaves the workshop as a rolled strip. On site it unrolls, wraps to the diameter a position needs, and fastens with screws, so a programme holds panels instead of a yard of empty pots. The plastic is made with UV stabilisers for positions that sit in the sun, and the studded face works the same in every size: tips meet air at the openings and stop, so the root mass stays fine-grained down to the base.
Bench work lives on the small and mid formats, where a coarse root or a dead pocket is visible immediately. The ventilated wall keeps tips branching instead of circling, drains fast between waterings, and lets a root check happen without cutting the pot apart. Blueberry rows, strawberry tables and bonsai programmes all run on the same panel design, covered in the air pruning pot range.
| Use | Bonsai, berry and soft-fruit programmes |
| Material | PE, PVC |
| Diameter | 15-200 cm, or customised |
| Height | 15-60 cm, or customised |
| Thickness | 0.6-1.5 mm |
| Base diameter | 15-60 cm |
| Colour | Black, white, or customised |
| Samples | Available |
The same panel that suits a bench also stands out in the open, where sun and rain test the plastic rather than a greenhouse roof. Air moves through the studded wall on all sides, the base plate keeps the underside of the root ball out of standing water, and rows fill their lines without pots crowding each other. Larger formats for field and tree work carry up through the tree and nursery container range.
Black is standard, with white and matched colours on programme orders, so benches and rows stay readable under glass or in the field. Rolls ship in woven bag or carton, sizes and base plates mix freely in one load, and samples let a buyer unroll a panel and test it against the position before committing a season. Flexible soft containers sit in the planting bag range. Trade coverage of bench and field practice runs at HortiDaily and FreshPlaza.
What does the rolled format change for a buyer?
Panels arrive as compact rolls, unroll on site, wrap to the position and fasten with screws, so transport and storage take less room than a stack of assembled pots.
Are these pots suited to bonsai and berry crops?
The small and mid formats are made for bench work on bonsai, blueberry and strawberry stock, where fine branching roots matter and the wall has to drain quickly.
How does the UV stabiliser matter outdoors?
The panels are made with UV stabilisers for rows and benches that sit in the open, so sun exposure does not break the wall down the way it would untreated plastic.
Tell us the crops, bench sizes and volumes your programme runs, and we will come back with the packing plan and lead time.
Mark Wu, Co-founder & Technical Director, Sichuan Zhifang Net Industry. 15 years manufacturing agricultural nettings for growers in 32 countries.
