Chive Joe small brown gold color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Two Chive Joe metal plant pots in color brown gold and bronzed brown styled with plants on a wood table indoor.
Chive Joe small brown gold metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small brown gold color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
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Two Chive Joe brown gold color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small silver color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
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Chive Joe small silver color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Two Chive Joe silver color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small green gold metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small green gold color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
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Two Chive Joe green gold color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small white copper color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small white copper color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
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Two Chive Joe white copper color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small mahogany gold color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
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Chive Joe small mahogany gold metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Two Chive Joe mahogany gold color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small forest gold color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small forest green gold color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
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Chive Joe small fern green brown color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small fern green brown color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
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Two Chive Joe fern green brown color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small bronzed brown metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small bronzed brown metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
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Two Chive Joe bronzed brown metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small brown gold color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Two Chive Joe metal plant pots in color brown gold and bronzed brown styled with plants on a wood table indoor.
Chive Joe small brown gold metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small brown gold color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Close up of Chive Joe small brown gold color metal plant pot drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Two Chive Joe brown gold color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small silver color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Close up of Chive Joe small silver color metal plant pot drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small silver color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Two Chive Joe silver color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small green gold metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small green gold color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Close up of Chive Joe small green gold color metal plant pot drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Two Chive Joe green gold color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small white copper color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small white copper color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
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Two Chive Joe white copper color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small mahogany gold color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
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Chive Joe small mahogany gold metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Two Chive Joe mahogany gold color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small forest gold color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small forest green gold color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Close up of Chive Joe small forest green gold color metal plant pot drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Two Chive Joe forest green gold color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small fern green brown color metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small fern green brown color metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
Close up of Chive Joe small fern green brown color metal plant pot drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Two Chive Joe fern green brown color metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.
Chive Joe small bronzed brown metal plant pot with drainage hole and detachable saucer.
Chive Joe small bronzed brown metal plant pot with drainage and saucer styled with a plant.
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Two Chive Joe bronzed brown metal plant pots with styled with a green plant.

Plant Pots with Drainage

Joe Metal Pot With Drainage Hole | 3 inch

with drainage hole and saucer

$19.95
Colors: Bronzed Brown
Drainage hole
Saucer Included
30-day return policy

The Joe 3-inch is a small metal plant pot, and somewhere in its development someone said the words iron is good for plants. Instead of nodding and moving on the way reasonable people do, we stopped everything and looked it up, because apparently that is who we are now. It turned out to be true. We are ceramicists. Nobody asked us to understand horticulture, and yet here we are, vindicated, holding a small iron pot named Joe.

Joe is iron, finished in eight colors, with a drainage hole at the base and a matching saucer. At three inches it suits a single succulent, a cactus, or a cutting that has just found its feet.

Joe has not mentioned the iron thing to anyone. Joe never does. Joe simply stands there being correct, the way certain people are correct about wine and never bring it up unless asked, which is somehow more annoying. The plant inside benefits regardless.

Product detail
  • Color: Bronzed Brown, Brown & Gold, Fern & Brown, Forest & Gold, Green & gold, Mahogany & Gold, Silver, White & Copper
  • Material: Metal
  • Glaze finish: Metalic
  • Finish variation: Natural variation between pieces
  • Drainage: included
  • Saucer: Matching saucer included
  • Dishwasher safe: Yes
  • Indoor / Outdoor: For indoor use and covered outdoor temperate weather use
  • Designed by: Chive Studio
  • Year Designed: 2018.0
Dimension
  • 3.5 inches diameter, 3 inches tall

Also available in:

  • 5 inches diameter, 5 inches tall
Plants that love this pot
  • Succulents and cacti
  • Pothos
  • Peperomia
  • Haworthia
  • Hoya
  • African violet
  • Fittonia (nerve plant)

Potting a Plant

  1. Place a 1-inch layer of small stones or LECA pebbles at the bottom of the pot. Optional, but it helps with airflow.
  2. Add well-draining potting mix appropriate to your plant. Not garden soil. We know your grandmother used garden soil. She was wrong about this one thing.
  3. Transplant from the nursery pot, leaving about ½ inch at the top for watering. In a small pot, every bit of space counts.
  4. Set the pot on the matching saucer.
  5. Water thoroughly until water runs out the drainage hole into the saucer. Empty the saucer once the plant has absorbed what it needs. This is the entire system.

Potting Tips

  1. Repot in the evening.
  2. Wait 1–2 days after watering, then repot.
  3. Buy potting mix. Not backyard dirt.
  4. Move the top layer of soil from the old pot into the new one. It's a little ecosystem.
  5. Never go more than one inch bigger.
  6. Soil line sits an inch below the rim. Leca or small rocks at the bottom for drainage.

Which pot size for my plant? →

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Pot Care instructions
  1. Dishwasher-safe. Can also be hand-washed with warm soapy water and a soft cloth.
  2. Glazed pots are dipped and kiln-fired — they are sealed, durable, and not looking for trouble. No special cleaning products required.
  3. For pots with saucers empty the saucer periodically. Standing water in the saucer defeats the purpose of having a drainage hole, which is a thing we feel strongly about.
  4. Not frost-safe. Designed for indoor use and covered outdoor temperate weather use. Freezing temperatures are not recommended.
Shipping & returns

Shipping

  • Free shipping: On qualifying US orders — threshold shown at checkout
  • Standard: 5–8 business days Express2–3 business days (at checkout)
  • International Ships: to 40 countries — rates at checkout
  • Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box

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Returns

We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 14 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.

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A Small Metal Pot That Turned Out to Be Right

The Joe 3-inch is a small metal plant pot, and the whole thing started when someone in the studio said iron is good for plants. A reasonable group would have nodded and moved on. We stopped everything and looked it up, because apparently that is who we are now, and it turned out to be true. We are ceramicists. Nobody asked us to understand horticulture, and yet here we are, vindicated, holding a small iron pot named Joe.

Joe is iron, finished through an electroplating process into eight colors, none of which are paint and none of which chip or flake the way paint can. There is a drainage hole at the base and a matching saucer underneath. At three inches it is sized for a single succulent, a cactus, or a cutting that has only just found its feet.

Joe has not mentioned the iron thing to anyone. Joe never does. Joe simply stands on the sill being correct, the way certain people are correct about wine and never bring it up unless asked, which is somehow more annoying than if they did. The plant inside benefits either way, which was, eventually, the point. At three inches Joe is also the easiest to underestimate, which Joe does not seem to mind, having no apparent interest in being noticed. The iron does its work whether or not anyone is paying attention, which is, when you think about it, the most that can reasonably be asked of a small pot.

Potting a plant with Chive

  1. It's best to repot your plant in the evening. Trust us, we know.
  2. Repot 1–2 days after watering — keeps the same rhythm going and won't shock it.
  3. Potting soil is not the dirt from your backyard. Go buy good, nutrient-rich soil.
  4. The top layer of soil in your current pot should be the top layer in the new pot too. It's a little ecosystem your plant likes.
  5. Never go more than one inch bigger than your existing pot. "It'll grow into it" is not correct, and you will kill it.
  6. Keep the soil line about an inch below the top of the pot. Add some leca or small rocks to the bottom for better aeration.
Repotting plants with Chive | Chive Studio

The Ultimate Repotting Guide

For those who have killed a plant. Or several. Or, frankly, many.

Before you put a plant into your new pot, you have to get it out of the nursery pot — a process that ends badly more often than any gardening influencer will admit. We wrote a full guide: when to repot (early spring, and not when you're feeling impulsive in October), which soil to use, how to tell your plant is root-bound, and how to avoid the three mistakes that kill perfectly healthy plants within a week of a well-intentioned repotting.

It is the guide we wish someone had handed us twenty-five years ago. It is written by people who have personally committed most of the errors in it.

Read the guide we wish we had
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Joe Comes in Three Sizes

Around the Joe 3-inch sits a whole line, the same design language at different dimensions, for the plant that wants a touch more or less room.

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The San Antonio Botanical Garden Did Not Argue

Chive Studio has made pots and ceramic flowers for over two decades. Joe is the metal one, finished in eight colors, and it exists because we could not let go of a horticultural fact we were not remotely qualified to have discovered. We are ceramicists. Reading about iron uptake in plants was on no one's job description, and yet there we were, working through agronomy notes for the sake of a small pot.

Botanical institutions stock the work, which we attribute to buyers who can tell when an object is what it claims to be. The San Antonio Botanical Garden carries Chive. So do the Norfolk Botanical Garden and the Berkshire Botanical Garden. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 5-star booth award, won twice in 14 consecutive years of exhibiting. We ship to over 40 countries and have never sold through a big-box retailer or licensed a design out to be manufactured by anyone else.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Joe best suited to?

The Joe is a metal pot for indoor plants. It works well for pothos, snake plants, peace lilies, philodendrons, and small ferns and suits modern, boho, and minimalist rooms. As a 3 inch metal pot, the Joe fits a shelf, sill, or desk and pairs cleanly with the rest of the Chive pot range. It comes in several colorways to match different rooms.

Is the Joe a plant pot with a drainage hole and saucer?

Yes, the Joe is a metal plant pot with a drainage hole and a matching saucer. The drainage hole lets excess water escape so roots are not left sitting in water, which is the most common cause of root rot indoors. Water until you see a little drain into the saucer, then empty it. For a metal pot with drainage, the Joe keeps watering simple.

What size plant fits the Joe 3 inch?

The Joe 3 inch is a metal pot that holds a nursery plant of a similar width, so match the grower pot to the opening rather than the mature size of the plant. Good choices include pothos, snake plants, peace lilies, philodendrons, and small ferns. For a 3 inch indoor plant pot, size up by about an inch when you repot so roots have room without swimming in soil.

Is the saucer included with the Joe pot?

Yes, the Joe ships with a matching metal saucer, so it arrives as a complete pot and saucer set. The saucer catches water that drains through and protects shelves and sills from rings and moisture. Both pieces are finished to match, which is why the Joe reads as one considered object rather than a pot with a random tray underneath.

Are metal plant pots good for indoor plants?

Yes, the Joe is a metal plant pot finished to resist moisture, so it holds up indoors without rusting through. Metal plant pots are light, durable, and hold their color, which makes the Joe easy to move and easy to live with. It has a drainage hole and saucer, so it waters like any good indoor pot while looking a little more architectural.

How do I care for plants in the Joe pot?

To water the Joe, add water until a little runs into the saucer, then tip out what collects so roots are not left standing in it. Because this metal pot has a drainage hole, you can water thoroughly and let the excess go, which encourages even root growth. Check the top inch of soil before watering again rather than watering on a fixed schedule.

Is the Joe a good metal pot for snake plants?

The Joe is a good metal pot for snake plants. It drains freely, so the roots get water and air in the right balance. For anyone searching for a metal pot for snake plants, the Joe covers both looks and function. Match the nursery pot to the opening and the plant settles in without fuss.

Does the Joe work as a housewarming gift?

The Joe makes a practical gift for a plant lover because it is a finished metal pot that solves a real problem rather than adding clutter. It arrives as a pot and saucer set and suits most modern interiors. For a plant pot gift that gets used, the Joe is an easy choice, and it suits anyone building an indoor plant collection.
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Shido seeds come vacuum-sealed, non-GMO, and packaged well enough that people keep the packets after the seeds are gone. Which is either a design success or a problem, depending on how you look at it.

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