Cute Groot Pen Holder, Office Organizer & Kids Desk Accessory, Guardians of the Galaxy Model, Indoor Flowerpot Planter by ShoppingOnBed

I just love this Baby Groot Flowerpot, and it's a great decoration on my BBQ bar, however, I wish I could find one much larger. It should be at least a foot high to properly hold a larger plant. Nevertheless, it's very cute.

I hoped to use this on my desk and chose this Groot from the several listed on Amazon because I liked the pose and the subtle coloring. I checked the customer photos before purchase and they looked like the item listing, but the Groot I received has an acid green top that makes him look like an old school punk rocker. There is also a random splotch of the same green on his chest. Cheap and tacky looking.

It will only hold a small plant. It has a drainage hole, but I opted to plant a succulent, and my 'liner' is a water bottle, cut to slightly higher than the 'pot', placed inverted (lid side down) with lid intake, and it fits very well into the semi-conical interior. I filled the cut/inverted water bottle with soil and my succulent. Very happy!

Super cute groot plant pot! However, I just wish there wasn’t a hole at the bottom. Didn’t anticipate having to put something under it for leakage. Other than that it came a day early than expected and it’s the perfect size.

This planter is so cute. We did put a saucer underneath to catch any water. It’s just for my kid’s room so I went with the 49 cent plastic saucer. It looked much cuter with a nice green one! My only markdown is that the opening is very small so it wasn’t that easy to put a plant in. Once in, it also doesn’t seem like it’s planted well but I can’t get my fingers in to fix. Maybe if I used a different type of plant it would be easier. All in all, a good purchase.

I did buy this Baby Groot. Not sure if he is official, but he looks great. The only reason I can see to sell him as a planter is he's a character that is a growing thing. I'm sure we all saw the first GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY film. Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel), a giant who is a living plant or tree, saves the other Guardians by covering them in a canopy of himself. But he is destroyed. The ending shows his friend Rocket (a character in the body of a raccoon), who secretly brings Groot back by potting him. In the second film, Groot is a baby full of mischief, who still can do amazing things, and seems to know what needs to be done.The only thing that I can see that makes this a planter (or a pencil holder) is that there is a hole that goes from the head of Groot, down to the bottom, allowing for drainage. I would think this configuration could easily tip over if a too large plant were in it. For me, Baby Groot sits smiling at folks when they gather around the water cooler. "I am Groot!"

If you put a plant directly in pot, the pot DOES have a hole for water to drain out—but no way of catching the water (and the irregular footprint won't fit in a regular-sized protective saucer). You can plug the hole and put a smaller pot (that drains) inside of it, but the smaller pot needs to be no bigger than 2.25 inch diameter. Too shallow / short to work well as pen cup, but would be fine to hold something like Q-tips. You can simply leave it empty, but then it would look better as a figurine rather than with the big hole in the head.

I'm currently using this for an air plant because I couldn't decide on what plant to actually put in this planter. It's pretty "plastic-y" but it does have 1 drainage hole at the bottom of the planter. I don't know if I would put something that has roots that are really sensitive to being moist unless I had a VERY well draining mixture in this planter. Because of the nature of the plastic, it would not be able to wick away any moisture like a material like terracotta. It's really freaking cute and I've seen people using it all over plant social media, so I would be confident in using this :)