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Faceted Propagation Tray 150

A square faceted tray with a lift-off lid carrying five keyhole slots, each of which closes onto a stem between 6 and 14 mm. Five cuttings stand at fixed spacing with their nodes under water and their leaves clear of it, and the lid stops the whole thing becoming a puddle with sticks in it. The faceted wall is there because this object lives on a table at eye level for weeks.

Make yours

Tell us the size and this gets drawn to it.

This one is made to order rather than configured on screen: slot count and tray size moves from 4 slots at 130 mm square to 9 slots at 210 mm square. Send a photo of the plant and the spot it has to live in, with the code PP-RT-150, and a size and a drawing come back the same day. 6 to 9 days from there.

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The numbers

Size
150 mm long, 150 mm wide, 78 mm tall
Holds
0.46 litres of medium
Made to your size
slot count and tray size, 4 slots at 130 mm square to 9 slots at 210 mm square
What stays as drawn
Slot geometry, water depth and lid fit stay as drawn.
Lead time
6 to 9 days
Made of
PETG, printed, tray and lid
Colours
unpigmented natural, warm white, pale sand, slate grey (warm white as standard)
Water
None, by design. It is a water vessel, emptied by lifting the lid off and tipping it. PETG is specified precisely because it stays in prolonged contact with water; PLA hydrolyses and would not survive the job.
Tray
No tray
Where it lives
Indoors
Weight
240 g empty

These are the figures the piece is drawn to rather than measurements taken off a finished one. Send the pot it has to replace and we will move them.

What it suits

Suits

  • Batches of the same species
  • Tradescantia
  • Epipremnum
  • Pilea offsets
  • Coleus
  • Herb softwood cuttings

Not for

  • Mixed species in one tray, because they root at different rates and the batch has to be emptied together
  • Succulents
  • Woody cuttings needing rooting hormone and a dry callus

Slots take 6 to 14 mm stems. Below 6 mm the stem will lean and the leaf will reach the water.

Why it is that shape

Shallow and wide is the right shape here for the opposite reason to a pot. There is no medium, so there is no perched water table to worry about, and what matters instead is that 25 mm of water is enough to cover a node and little enough to change without ceremony. The lid does the structural work of holding five stems apart, which is what stops leaves touching the surface.

Looking after it

Empty and refill rather than topping up, twice a week, and rinse the tray each time. If a stem goes soft at the water line, take it out immediately; one rotting cutting will take the other four with it because they share the water.

Pigments fade under sustained sunlight. An opaque wall is preferred here over a translucent one, because standing water in the light grows algae and algae competes for the oxygen in it.

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