Little Projects

Despite my love of plants, I am always curiously trying new things and one of the things I decided to give a try, was resin casting! Now, to be able to combine the project with something to do with plants made it all the more interesting to me.

I decided to cast a pot out of resin and put one of my favorite plants into the pot. This project had WAY more hurdles than what I was expecting... For starters I had to find the correct type mold to be able to actually cast a pot. For those of you interested in resin, I strongly suggest never casting with glass (this is all kinds of self explanatory, that I never even thought of). I put a glass vase in the center of the plastic tub to create the "pot" and once the resin hardened, I couldn't get the glass out. Which resulted in me having to cut my resin pot in half to detach the glass.

But despite the hurdles, I landed up with what I think is a really gorgeous little pot, with a very special scindapsus plant inside as you can see in the pic below.

The pot cut almost in half

Resin pot sealed with grouting

Scindapsus 

After I got such a great result with the pot, I also decided to cast some barley seeds in resin to use for teaching purposes. My day job is malting manager for a company and so again, I combined my resin project with my job and this was the result which helps me to show people various growth stages of barley.

Malting barley