T50 Excel Plug Pallet

What the T50 Excel Plug Is

The iHort T50 Excel Plug is a pre-filled, 50-cell propagation tray built on a true 10″×20″ footprint — meaning it drops directly into standard 1020 carrying trays and seats cleanly under a standard humidity dome without modification. The 'T' designation confirms the tray is a genuine 10×20 rather than a nominal size that falls short of the standard.

The Excel Plug media is a proprietary blend of coco coir, sphagnum peat moss, and coconut shell bio char. The formulation produces a softer, less-bound plug than compressed peat-only formats — engineered to mimic the structure of loose soil while retaining enough cohesion to handle the plug intact at transplant. Each cell delivers 2.04 cubic inches (33.2 cubic centimeters) of media volume, sized for rapid rooting of cuttings or germination of seed before a prompt move to a larger substrate.

Plugs are pre-filled at the factory and arrive ready to hydrate and use — no loose media handling, no filling equipment required on your end. The pallet format (SKU X10LT50-PL) ships 320 trays, yielding 16,000 individual cells per order.

Who It's Built For

The T50 Excel Plug pallet is designed for licensed cannabis and hemp operators running continuous propagation programs: cultivation facilities with weekly or bi-weekly clone cycles, multi-site operators who need consistent propagation media across locations, and nursery operations supplying starts to affiliated grow sites.

At 16,000 cells per pallet, this format eliminates the per-case overhead of smaller orders and provides the volume consistency that a commercial propagation room demands. Tray geometry, plug density, and media composition are uniform across the entire pallet — critical when your propagation metrics (rooting percentage, days-to-transplant, transplant success rate) feed into production scheduling.

If your propagation timeline requires more dwell time in the cell before transplant — for instance, when building a stronger root structure on heavy cutting material — iHort's 50 Deep Excel Plug tray is the deeper-cell alternative in the same 10×20 footprint. The T50 is the higher-throughput option: smaller cell volume, faster cycle, prompt transplant required before the plant outgrows the cell.

Key Features for Commercial Operations

True 10×20 footprint: fits standard 1020 carrying trays and humidity domes without shimming or modification — important when you're running rolling propagation benches with standardized tray hardware.

Pre-filled and factory-ready: trays arrive loaded with media. Hydrate, insert cuttings or seeds, and move to your propagation environment. No loose substrate handling, no fill variation between trays.

Excel Plug media composition — coco coir, sphagnum peat moss, and coconut shell bio char — maintains air porosity during root development while retaining adequate moisture. The softer, less-bound structure supports clean plug removal and is compatible with both hand transplanting and mechanical transplanting equipment.

Minimal residual plug material post-harvest: the less-bound formulation breaks down within the root zone rather than persisting as a visible plug mass — originally developed for field rose and fruit-tree production where clean root extraction mattered at harvest. That same characteristic translates to cleaner transplants in cannabis production.

Made in the USA. Pallet format (320 trays / 16,000 cells) supports bulk procurement with reduced per-unit freight cost versus case-quantity ordering.

How the T50 Pallet Fits a Commercial Propagation Build

A 16,000-cell pallet maps cleanly onto common commercial propagation math. At 50 cells per tray and standard propagation bench dimensions, 320 trays covers a meaningful portion of a mid-scale propagation room's standing inventory or an entire weekly clone run for a larger multi-light facility.

The T50 cell dimensions (1.25″ W × 1.25″ H) and 2.04 cu-in volume are sized for the early rooting phase — plan your transplant timing accordingly, as plants can outgrow the cell volume if held too long. Pair with a dedicated propagation environment: humidity dome coverage, appropriate VPD management, and propagation-tier lighting (T5 or low-intensity LED). For operations running iHort Q Plug inserts, the T50 tray is spec'd to accept the iHort 40/40 Q Plug cell.

HSC supplies the T50 Excel Plug Pallet (X10LT50-PL) to licensed cannabis and hemp operators nationwide. Request a quote through the form below — lead times and freight logistics provided with your quote.