Make Your Own Grow TRAY For CHEAP!!!!

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Okay here we go i've been thinking about doing this for a while and after seeing mold on my top shelf i decided to do it.

Its really very simple

1. Cut plywood to desired shape

2. Screw sides on

3. Fiber glass it!!!


I put a drain with 1" pvc pice sitting flush with the bottom of the tray and fiber-glassed it in. And it workin like a charm.

Hope i gave you guys some good ideas.

Any questions just ask

Total cost was the price of the wood and 15 bucks for the resin.

And heres the pics VVVVV

 

[420GrungBuk420]

does it actually work well, like no drips or leaks?
And are concerned about mold starting in the wood?

 

[svchop889]

I think that's what the fiberglass bondo is for not to bad of an idea actually

 

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yea no leaks whatsoever works great and as for mold, as long as you have complete coverage of fiberglass you will not have mold...


heres a little hint dont add too much of the hardener cause it will set up FAST

 

[metrognome]

That is quite the ingenious idea!

 

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why thankyou

 

[zem]

i make flood trays using wood then geomembrane, it's a black nylon sheet intended to make ponds

 

[brownbearclan]

Good idea, pics could have been better though, it's kinda hard to see the whole setup and finished product. =)

i make flood trays using wood then geomembrane, it's a black nylon sheet intended to make ponds

That's a damn good idea too! How do you do the drain areas though? Like tighten a bulkhead down on top of a hole in the sheet or something?

 

[zem]

That's a damn good idea too! How do you do the drain areas though? Like tighten a bulkhead down on top of a hole in the sheet or something?

i use a round vineyl piece to reinforce the drain area, that is i make a hole in the nylon and in the piece of vineyl, i screw the drain over a double layer

 

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how bout a DIY thread and leave a link on this one. that would be awesome. + rep if you could do that

 

[supaleeb]

Wow, this is great! I've been looking for something like that fiberglass filler for similiar projects. +rep

 

[zem]

how bout a DIY thread and leave a link on this one. that would be awesome. + rep if you could do that

yeah will do, right now i got my trays full, after harvest i can do a DIY thread

 

[TheRuiner]

bump... balls in your court zem

 

[zem]

bump... balls in your court zem

jeez! ok ok! i thought this thread died out... persistent people in here lmao
there ya go my DIY thread
https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/399376-diy-switchable-grow-tray-flood.html#post5155529

 

[flamdrags420]

As promised I would +repped you after I tested it. Here is my review. The stuff works great. however, I don't think it's the best solution for the price. Also note corey used the short hair strand and I used the longer hair version of it. I found this stuff to be really messy and vvery difficult to trowel to a thinner coarse. If anyone else tries this stick to the short hair version. It took the whole gallon can to do one tub at 16x30x14. I'm going to do a test on redgard rubber membrane. I'll report back on that. I found another guy on here that did his using blue max. He had great results and it looks nice too. Although that stuff is so expensive to get. But I think it would be a better and cheaper option than the bondo route depending on the ammount of trays and tubs you need to make.
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