I’ve done #1,2,3 nursery pots and found the most efficient in my grows to be #1’d which save space and soil but take more work (daily) with 3’s being most efficient meaning I tend to plants every 3-4 days in prime flower and produce 2/3 dried zips off each plant with as many as 4/5 plants in a 2x4 tent.
Yea, no doubt more work Mosh. One thing that can be done to extend, or widen some of the drying time is to manipulate the solutions themselves. For me, I think using humics/fluvics, and also the yukka extract really helps on the surfactant end. (spreading) Which accelerates the process. Sugars however (only trace amounts), seem to hold the moisture better, IMO.
Especially if you work with high ppm salts, cause buildup becomes a major issue, so adding/replacing that humic/fluvic content becomes important; and having a "foamy" solution, helps matters IMO. Enzymes, precursors, secondary biometabolites, all good stuff that helps optimize your fluid efficiency. Surfactants
reduce surface tension, thereby decreasing liquid–solid contact angle; and increases the nucleation rate of vapor bubbles; it inhibits coalescence of bubbles; it can promote foaming.
Back to sugars. They seem to enhance efficient "absorbing" character, while also maintaining the liquids mobility, especially as the water table diminishes over time. Allowing our solutions to "spread out" or "creep" more efficiently along a solid surface.
Evaporation; air movement, Temps, Relative Humidity all contributing factors. Fluid dynamics is a huge subject in it's own right, and I think often overlooked.
Cloth pots either magnify, or perhaps compound issues already present in the water quality itself.