Growth Trainer

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When plants get too big for their space, you can cut them, or you can train them by bending them to the shape they ought to be in, and letting them heal in the new position; this is a tool for training.To use this, simply print 2 of them*, lock the gear teeth of the halves together at your desired angle angle, and bend your plant stem around the middle post and hook it in place on either side to train! there's a post hole through the middle, so if your plant needs it, you can string or wire through the two halves, or even bolt them together. As pictured, I have come to prefer the wire version, but a larger print could theoretically be used to train very young trees, if it were assembled with proper hardware like a bolt and nut.*The original model is made oversized, actual print dimensions would be about 7.5 inches long on the model, but scale it to your grow in your slicer. For reference, the ones pictured are printed at 40% scale, with 3 shell layers, 10% cubic infill, a concentric fill pattern, and otherwise normal print settings- the concentric and shell layers probably being the most important structural notes.