For retailers
Put Smart Pot on your shelves.
Build an assortment for your garden center, nursery retail store, or growing-supply business.
- Fabric planters, raised beds, and specialty products
- Retail packaging, displays, and product guidance
Retailers & commercial growers
Grow your business with Smart Pot.
Stock the original fabric planter. Build your next growing program. Get product guidance, catalogs, and wholesale support directly from the people who make Smart Pots.
From our roots to your operation.
Made in the USA since 1984.
The original Smart Pot
Fabric containers with nursery roots
Since 1984
Decades of growing experience
Made in the USA
Manufactured in Oklahoma City
Talk to our team
Real people. Practical guidance.
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Do you sell them, or grow in them?
For commercial growers
Plan your next production cycle.
Find containers for tree nurseries, farms, greenhouses, and commercial growing operations.
- Above-ground and in-ground growing systems
- Volume quotes, sizing, and custom-size inquiries
Direct from the manufacturer
Let’s talk about your business.
Start with a few details. Our team will follow up with the right products, pricing information, and next steps.
Retailers: ask about an opening assortment and retail pricing.
Growers: ask about your crop, container sizes, and volume needs.
Edvin Flores
President - Sales & Marketing
Kurt Reiger
Chief Executive Officer
Keep the details handy
Your catalogs. Ready to download.
Browse product families and specifications, then contact our team for current pricing, availability, and ordering.
Retail assortment
Lawn & garden catalog
Fabric planters, raised beds, specialty products, and retail assortment options.
Commercial production
Commercial grower catalog
Smart Pot Pro, Root Control Bags, and systems for professional tree and shrub production.
Commercial & tree production
Match the system to your operation.
Smart Pot is part of High Caliper Growing. Explore our parent company’s systems for above-ground growing, field production, and nursery support.
Above ground
Smart Pot Pro
Fabric aeration containers for trees, shrubs, and commercial crops. Explore sizes, handle options, and custom-size inquiries.
In ground
Root Control Bags
A field-growing system designed to contain a harvestable root ball. Explore planting, root control, and harvesting methods.
Container liner
Pot Pruner
A fabric liner for standard plastic containers, designed to encourage root pruning while retaining the outer pot.
Nursery support
Tree Collars
Padded collars used with a cable support system to help reduce wind blow-over in tree production.
Professional growing resources from High Caliper Growing, our parent company.
Need help with a nursery program, volume order, or custom size?Talk with our grower team
Research-backed performance
Research you can put to work.
Three findings from above-ground container trials. Open each study for the crop, comparison, and growing conditions.
Reached the study’s market size sooner
UF/IFAS · Viburnum · 2021–22
Study details & source
Plants started in 3-gallon Smart Pots reached the trial’s 7-gallon market specification 2 months after shifting; plants started in plastic took 5 months. Both groups were shifted into 7-gallon plastic containers.
Florida nursery trial with 25 plants per group. Irrigation was adjusted to maintain comparable moisture; Smart Pots received about 1.8× as much water during the initial phase.
Read the UF/IFAS study ↗Lower daily maximum root-zone temperature
HortScience · Dwarf Burford holly · 2022
Study details & source
Maximum daily substrate temperature averaged 6°C lower in fabric containers than plastic, measured 3 cm from the southwest-facing wall. The two 31-week trials used 18 L of bark-peat substrate.
Fabric containers required 66% more irrigation water in these trials. Nitrogen and phosphorus losses in leachate were lower. Irrigation planning matters.
Read the HortScience paper ↗Root deflection and circling
Texas A&M · Knock Out roses · 2005 trial
Study details & source
Roses in 11 L Smart Pots had approximately fivefold less root deflection and circling than roses in conventional black plastic containers across two substrates.
A Texas A&M nursery trial compared pine-bark and peat-based mixes. The researchers assessed deflected and circling roots at the container wall.
Read the study (PDF) ↗Study results depend on crop, container, substrate, climate, and irrigation. These above-ground findings do not describe in-ground Root Control Bags.
Know what you’re growing in
Made here. Documented materials.
We manufacture and ship Smart Pots from Oklahoma City using virgin fabric. Our team can help with product and material questions for your retail or growing program.
Lead & BPA testing
Our published Safety Data Sheet reports no lead or BPA detected. View the document for testing and material information.
Made in Oklahoma City
American materials. American labor. Hands-on quality control.
Our story began with trees
A tree farmer’s idea. A growing legacy.
Oklahoma tree farmer Ralph Reiger began experimenting with fabric containers in 1980. After harvesting the first trial trees in 1982, he founded Root Control, Inc. in 1984.
That nursery experience is still at the heart of Smart Pot and High Caliper Growing: practical products, built around better root systems.
- 1980 First fabric-container experiments at The Tree Farm
- 1982 The successful August harvest proves the root-pruning idea
- 1984 Root Control, Inc. begins serving professional nurseries
- Today Smart Pot is made in Oklahoma City and used from garden centers to commercial acreage
Meet us in person
Trade shows & events
See where to meet the Smart Pot and High Caliper Growing team, or contact us to arrange a conversation about your business.
Our next appearances will be posted here.
Ask our team about upcoming events and opportunities to meet.
Past appearances
- Farwest Show 2026 · August 26–28, 2026 · Portland, Oregon · Booth 10016
Smart Pot® is the original fabric planter, made in the USA since 1984. From home gardens to professional growing, we’re here to help.
Anything else is just a pot.