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I water all my plants (except my neps) with the tray method, and so far, I've using an individual small trays for each plant I have. While using individual trays is really water efficient, I'm lazy and am trying to reduce the amount of work I need to do.

One thought has been to start keeping multiple plants in larger trays so I don't need to refill as many trays as often. The only issue is that the 1020 trays I found at the hardware store are a bit too large for my grow space, which is a wire rack with size 48x18in. The 1020 tray is a few inches too long and I don't want to have part of the tray sticking out as that would make it more difficult to cover the sides of the wire rack with mylar (which I do to boost the efficiency of my LEDs).

What kind of setups are all of you using? What size trays do you have? Do you know where can I buy trays of different dimensions?

Trays are an issue for me too.

They are never the right dimensions, never the right depth and never the right color.

It sounds like the 1020 trays are almost "perfect." If you're willing to and you don't mind the aesthetics, you can cut a few inches off and put them back together with epoxy.

Evenwind, how durable are those perma-nest trays?

They look kind of thin like the 1020 trays, I want to be able to pick up the tray when I have water and plants in them. The 1020 type trays are too flimsy for that.

Most 1020 trays are thin and flimsy, but Bootstrap Farmer trays looks promising where it's the thick and quality kind. They also have the trays in white.

https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/collect ... 3119575130

I went ahead and ordered the extra thick 1020 tray.

I'll let you know how they are.

The extra thick 1020 trays were a little cheaper so went with them. They appear to be the same thickness.

Indoors, i use 1010, 1020 and a few of these: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sterilite-18 ... n/17011369

Looks like you could fit three on a shelf with a little room to spare.

Fieldofscreams wrote:Trays are an issue for me too.

They are never the right dimensions, never the right depth and never the right color.

Out of curiosity, what is the right depth and what is the right color?

Wow, really good info here, thanks everyone!

mcgrumpers wrote:Out of curiosity, what is the right depth and what is the right color?

I prefer my pots and trays to be only white. For heat reasons.

I also prefer the trays to not be deeper than the pots are tall. So like 3"-4" deep.

I ended up getting these: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Large-White- ... /374173057

Given that I'd never have more than 1.5 inches of water, these trays are good. They're a little bit shorter than I'd like, but better than every other alternative I've found.

Fieldofscreams, I agree that white trays are nice. White pots are also something I've been looking for, also for heat reasons. Have you (or has anyone else) been able to find a source for decent plastic white pots?