The POTTERFACTORY ®    patent pending    1 3/4" Pellet Pot
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Simple Instruction for creating a perfect POTTERFACTORY® Peat-Pellet Pot
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1. Layout a piece of paper and the PotterFactory Tool Kit.  Here we are using a piece of recycled printer paper, trimmed or torn to about 3 " wide.  The width of the paper is dependent on the height of the peat-pellet pot you want and should be about 1" wider than the final peat-pellet pot height. 2. Fold the top edge of the paper over about 1/2" and crease it well.  The lighter weight brown paper sacks work great for these little pots. 3. Roll the paper up on the open end of the compression cylinder, the fold will become the top.  Don't roll it tightly, you can leave it loose.  A small piece of masking tape at the joint will hold it together while you continue. 4. You should have something like this now.  The length of the paper past the end of the pot-form cylinder should be at least 1/2 the diameter of the cylinder if you want the bottom of your pot to be closed.
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5. Fold the paper over the end and tuck it a little up into the cylinder. 6. Smush the end of the pot on the table top, this helps to shape the end.  7. Slip the pot off the open end of the cylinder and insert the closed the end of the cylinder into the pot..

8. Smush down on the compression tube again, this helps to compress the paper folds in the pot bottom.
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9. Slip the pot off the end of the compression tube and slip it into the end of the 2 1/4" pot form. 10. Slide it down into the pot-form cylinder, the top of the pot should not be further than an inch or so into the cylinder.  The soil mix will usually compress to about one-half of its loose volume. 11. Add some pre-moistened peat mix, or your special soil mix.  If you are using a bag of mix, scoop right from the bag. 12. Insert the compression cylinder and push the mix into the mini-pot.  If you crunch the edge of the pot a bit, just slide it out and straighten it out.  Try to make the next pot a little bigger (don't wrap it so tight).
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13.If the mix seems dry you can add some water, but not very much. 14. Insert the compression cylinder and smush it hard. 15. While holding the outside of the pot-form cylinder continue pushing on the compression cylinder. 16. Then push it on out.
Step 17 Step 18 Hint: If you are having problems smashing the sides of your pot, roll the pot in Step 3 above so it is not so tight.  You might also try using lightweight brown paper sacks for pot material, they work nicely.
17. Using a pen or pencil, push into the compressed mix to make a dimple for a seed. 18. Incredibly QUICK and SIMPLE, even for children.  A PERFECT Peat-Pellet pot.
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