The invention relates to a pot for containing plant or flower substrate material. The pot comprises a bottom and a sidewall extending upwardly from a bottom rim to a top rim. The sidewall comprises a chain of sidewall portions that are interconnected via intermediate hinges running from the bottom rim top the top rim along a hinge edge of the sidewall portions, such that that the sidewall portions are mutually pivotable around a pivot axis coinciding with an intermediate hinge from an open state of the pot wherein free ends of the sidewall portions chain are mutually remote, towards a closed state of the pot wherein the free ends of the sidewall portions chain meet each other.