Make yours
Tell us the size and this gets drawn to it.
This one is made to order rather than configured on screen: length moves from 180 to 300 mm. Send a photo of the plant and the spot it has to live in, with the code PP-SL-280, and a size and a drawing come back the same day. 5 to 8 days from there.
The numbers
- Size
- 280 mm long, 150 mm wide, 32 mm tall
- Water capacity
- 0.75 litres
- Made to your size
- length, 180 to 300 mm
- What stays as drawn
- Width, lip height, rib pitch and floor thickness stay as drawn. Beyond 300 mm order the modular version instead; a single longer part does not fit the build envelope.
- Lead time
- 5 to 8 days
- Made of
- PETG, printed, single piece
- Colours
- unpigmented natural, warm white, pale sand (warm white as standard)
- Water
- None, and that is the job. It is a catch tray. The 8 mm ribs keep pot bases out of standing water so that the large pores in the pots above can refill with air.
- Where it lives
- Indoors, happy in a sunny window
- Weight
- 130 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
- Any run of pots up to 130 mm diameter, four across
- Herbs
- Cacti and succulents in a bright window
- Seedling pots
Not for
- Use as a planter in its own right; 22 mm is not a root depth
- Anything you intend to leave standing in water
Takes four 130 mm pots or two 150 mm ones with room to lift them out.
Drawn for Cacti, Succulents, Alocasia and Cattleya, and each of those pages says why this shape and not another.
Why it is that shape
A sill is long and narrow and a tray for it should be too. The 8 mm ribs are the functional part: a pot base sealed against a wet flat surface cannot let its large pores empty, and large pores are the only ones that carry oxygen. The 22 mm lip is set by the largest sensible over-water from a 200 mm pot, and the flat 32 mm total height is set by wanting the tray to disappear behind the sill edge.
Looking after it
Empty it. A tray of standing water under a row of pots is a humidity trick that mostly works as a wick, and the ribs only buy you 8 mm. Wipe out the white deposit when it appears; that crust is the salt that left the pots above, which is the tray doing exactly what it should.
Pale only, and this is a specification rather than a style. A Yerevan south-facing sill in July sits under a mean daily maximum of 32 C outdoors with 25 days over 30 C, behind glass and in direct beam. PETG holds shape to roughly 70 C; PLA softens from about 55 and is not offered for this product at all. A dark pigment in direct sun runs materially hotter than a pale one and will reach the softening range sooner, so slate grey and oxblood are not available in this category. All pigments fade under sustained UV and neither printed material is UV-stable for permanent outdoor use.
The rest of the Windowsill trays
- Sill Tray Module 225 225 mm long, 130 mm wide, 34 mm tall, holds 0.55 litres
- Low Saucer 150 150 mm across, 8 mm tall, holds 0.06 litres
- Square Saucer 155 155 mm long, 155 mm wide, 8 mm tall, holds 0.08 litres
- Deep Saucer 180 180 mm across, 32 mm tall, holds 0.51 litres
- Reserve Tray 200 200 mm long, 200 mm wide, 56 mm tall, holds 1.42 litres
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