 This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com, today we have another exciting episode for you. I'm here at the San Francisco 2011 indoor gardening XO. Next we're going to check out another booth, they have a really cool plant cage that I've never seen before. Now this is meant pretty much for indoor growing, as is a lot of the things here. We're going to pick out some cool things that can maybe also be used for outdoor growing. So if you're planting on a deck and you have a plant that you're planting outside and you move it in for the winter, this would actually be a really good cage to keep it stable because it kind of folds down and it's fully adjustable and you're not really going to disturb your roots like you would with other cages or steaks. So this one's called the ultimate plant cage, here it is, here it is being used in real world with some flowers. Let me show you this one, it's set up without flowers so you can see how it works. This is the cage that basically goes into the pot right here, anchors down into the pot. You put this in obviously when you plant your plant originally and it basically has all these little hinges on here. These hinges have these poles on there, these poles go up maybe like 32 inches and these are elliptical and adjustable so you literally turn this, you can adjust it higher and then you turn it to lock it in place. Not only that, you can actually turn it and lower it, lock it into place and you can grab another one of these guys, you know, adjust this out to be taller and put it in there. Man, that can get really tall so this isn't like super sturdy, you could probably grow some of the like beans or peas that would nice bind up this really cool, if you want to make it stronger you could actually take some string and tie these around to each other and let's check this one out right here now that they have these flowers growing on. You can see here they have some horticulture wire with rubberized strapped onto these little brackets that go up the plant. So if you strapped all these together all around the whole unit you'd basically have like a really solid cage that'd be nice and flexible. So definitely really cool. This would probably work really nicely for something like peppers, you know, if you're growing some herbs you cut the herbs when they're at a young stage so you make them side shoot and then you can train each one of these up one of the poles here. Now I like this a bit better than sticking like multiple bamboo stakes in because this won't transfer disease on your bamboo stakes, sometimes disease may grow on there with this plastic and put in some, you know, water with some leaves to sterilize it so you won't transfer any pathogens. The other thing I like about this is you can adjust this after you put it in with the bamboo stakes so you need to put a taller one in, you'll need to restake and put another stake and you're going to disturb the roots. Once you put this in it's solid and you can just, you know, adjust these as needed and you don't ever need to disturb the roots. So the ultimate plant cage I definitely think it can be useful depending on your growing situation. Now would I use these in my front raised beds? Maybe not, they're really small and rinky-dink but for the right application this could be a great solution so think about that when you need an adjustable of plant stake mostly for indoor or maybe container deck garden. You come to these expos like this, bring some big Ikea bags so you can tow a lot of samples out. Hope you've enjoyed this episode learning more about some of the stuff here available at the indoor gardening expo. This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com in a river. Keep on growing!