FI66275C - PLANTODLINGSKAERL - Google Patents

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66275

PLANT GROWING DISH - PLANTODLINGSKÄRL

The present invention relates to a seedling growth vessel consisting of a top-open cardboard cup or the like to be filled with a seedling growing medium, which can be placed in a growing cell with seedlings during initial seedling growth and then removed from the honeycomb and implanted in a larger vessel or similar seedling growth site.

In the cultivation of potted plants in nurseries, nurseries are used, which allow the seedlings in the early stages of their growth to be grown in a small space. The honeycomb is preferably made of plastic and comprises recesses in longitudinal and transverse rows, in each of which a quick-growing container in which the seedling is planted or sown can be placed.

At the stage when the growing cell becomes cramped for the seedlings, the seedlings are transferred to a new, looser growing environment, such as flower pots, where the seedlings are delivered for sale in due course.

It is already known to make culture vessels to be placed in a growing cell from plastic. Due to their non-dehydrating and non-rotting properties, such containers are easy to handle and thus easy to remove from the honeycomb when transferring seedlings. On the other hand, the indestructibility of the container results in the seedling and its growing medium having to be removed from the container before the new planting of the seedling.

A seedling growing vessel made of cardboard is also known. The advantage of paperboard is that the container containing the trout and its growing medium can be planted as such in a new seedling growth site, based on the rapid decay of the paperboard so that the growing trout f.

the roots get to penetrate through it. However, there is a disadvantage in the carton that the container is hydrogenated and softens already in the growth cell, so that it is difficult to move it out of the cell as a whole.

The object of the present invention is to provide a new type of seedling growing vessel in which the above-mentioned disadvantages are avoided. The seedling growth container according to the invention is characterized in that the container is provided with a rigid rim of non-hydrogenated material flanking the mouth of the container, on which the container is lifted out of the growing cell and transferred to a new seedling growth site.

Since the container according to the invention is mainly made of cardboard, it can be raised with its seedlings in a flower pot or the like to a new growing place in the same way as known growing containers made entirely of cardboard. However, the rigid rim at the mouth of the container ensures that the container remains well sized even when the carton is wet and begins to decay. The container is thus easy to remove from the honeycomb, e.g. by means of a fork-like lifting member which can be pushed under the rim. When the container is planted in a new growing place, such as a flowerpot filled with soil, the hoop remains on the surface of the soil layer, from where it is easy to remove when the trapped cardboard is completely ground.

The rigid rim flanking the mouth of the seedling container is preferably formed by a plastic ring. Such a ring can be formed in a carton, e.g. by stiffening the roll of the mouth of the container with plastic melts.

The invention will now be described in more detail by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which

Fig. 1 shows two seedling growing containers according to the invention placed in adjacent recesses of a growing cell and

Fig. 2 shows the seedling growing container according to Fig. 1 at a later stage of growing, in which the container with the seedling has been transferred to the final flower pot.

In the first stage of the cultivation of potted plants according to the drawing, a growing cell 1 made of plastic sheet by means of a deep drawing is shown, which has adjacent recesses 2 in longitudinal and transverse rows. In each recess 2 of the honeycomb 1 is placed a wide-goblet-shaped seedling growth vessel 3 open at its upper end, which contains the seedling 4 in the early stages of its growth and its growing medium 5, which may be e.g. flower soil or peat. The container 3 comprises a base (not necessary) and a truncated cone-shaped jacket of cardboard, and in addition the container is provided with a rigid rim 6 flanking the mouth of the container, formed of cardboard stiffened with a plastic sheet.

When the growing cell 1 according to Fig. 1 or the seedling growing containers 3 placed therein become cramped for the growing seedlings 4, the seedlings are transferred to the flower pots 7 according to Fig. 2. In the transfer step, the seedling 4 is planted as a whole in The cardboard container 3 embedded in the soil then decomposes rapidly so that the trout roots 8 can grow through it.

The purpose of the rigid rim 6 belonging to the seedling growing container 3 is to act as a member on which the container can be lifted out of the growing cell 1 and transferred to the flower pot 7. The cardboard parts of the vessel 3 become hydrated and softened already in the growing cell 1. , as an easily movable piece. In the flower pot 7, the rim 6 remains on the surface of the soil layer 5 in the pot, from which it can be removed after the cardboard parts of the container remaining inside the soil have completely disintegrated.

It will be clear to a person skilled in the art that the various embodiments of the invention are not limited to the example given above but may vary within the scope of the appended claims.