GB2472039A - Propagator for growing and planting a treelet - Google Patents
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Abstract
A propagator for growing and planting a treeletDcomprises a bodyJhaving a funnel shaped lidAat the top for the collection of rainwater. The lid may have a filterBto keep out dirt and insects etc. A dew collecting meshCis provided around the bottom of the body which also shades the ground around the propagator. The base of the propagator may have an attached store which is underground when the treelet is planted. This store may be for the collection and storage of rainwater and may contain a hydrophilic gel. The propagator may be provided with a shading shroudHat the top which may be made of the same type of mesh as the dew collector. The propagator may be sterile and/or biodegradable breaking down to a fertiliser.
Description
INTELLECTUAL
. .... PROPERTY OFFICE Application No. GB09 12716.8 RTM Date:10 November 2010 The following terms are registered trademarks and should be read as such wherever they occur in this document: Treepak Intellectual Property Office is an operating name of the Patent Office www.ipo.gov.uk Desert Treepak -Tree Incubator System to Enhance Desert Survival Overview Over the whole period of human civilisation, the area covered by forest has been declining as a result of human activities. Increasing population, demand for farmland and timber, and expanding urban areas have all contributed to this decline, resulting in an annual net loss of tropical forest the size of Belgium each year, or approximately 9 million hectares.
Loss of trees is a major factor in increasing C02 levels in the atmosphere and consequent climate change, and is reckoned to be responsible for 20% of anthropogenic warming. The purpose of this invention is to speed up the process of the replanting of trees aimed at achieving an end to net deforestation. On current estimates, this will require in the order of 10 billion trees per annum to match current losses -not counting natural wastage. To take into account accumulated losses over a hundred year period, replacement would need around 60 billion new trees per year for twenty years.
Given the enormous scale of the task, conventional propagation and replanting techniques are proving inadequate for the task, especially in the more remote, less populated areas. The Desert Treepak therefore is designed to allow use of robotic micro-propagation in the most automated factory possible to produce vast numbers of young treelets of the very highest quality under sterile conditions. Once produced, a system is necessary to plant out these vast numbers quickly and efficiently, and to ensure that a high proportion of treelets survive (target >95%). Desert Treepak is the name of the system to be used as a "dry land tree incubator". The system is designed to allow and to ensure high survival rates of trees through the first 6 months to 1 year of growth, and contains a number of novel features to enhance survival. The system is particularly attractive for establishing pioneer species as hedges and windbreaks reducing the degree of evapotranspiration in the area and beginning the process of reversing desertification. The system is designed to accommodate either seeds, or cloned material, and to allow the production of a wide variety of elite quality plants so as to contribute to enhanced biodiversity. Planting out of the Desert Treepak can be carried out manually, using traditional farm vehicles, or using lightweight planting platforms such as hovercraft.
Design Essentials of the Desert Treepak 1. The Desert Treepak is designed to be manufactured and assembled out of sterile biodegradable polymers, and filled with its various internal gels, growing matrix, nutrients, tissue cultured cells, auxins and other substances using an automated sterile factory production line.
2. The Desert Treepak is designed to be constructed, inoculated with tissue cultured plant material, held until plants form, then distributed by manual means or by ground based vehicles all under controlled sterile conditions as part of an integrated and mostly automated system, with the materials of the Desert Treepak biodegrading and turning to fertilizer once is protective role is complete. (With the exception of a few durable components designed for re-use.) 3. The Desert Treepak encloses the treelet in a protective environment providing protection from infection -viral, bacterial, and fungal, from insects and grazing animals, from competition from other plants, and from the damaging effects of weather.
4. Provides all essential nutrients in accessible form for the whole period the treelet is in the Treepak, with some degree of continuing support for some time after. The system will contain slow release nutrients, support matrix and delayed release auxins in a proprietary mix.
5. Provides a suitable amount of water -neither drying out nor flooding the treelet. The system includes two mechanisms for water capture and a drainage system to remove excess moisture. The first collection system is a large funnel to catch occasional rainfall, and the second consists of two items of fine mesh -the first in the form of an upturned parasol, and the second as a shade hanging down from the Desert Treepak lid. In areas which experience dew or fog, the fine mesh captures said moisture, and runs it down to the roots of the tree. As well as capturing water, this mesh will to some degree keep out the heat of the desert sun, and shade the soil so reducing soil evaporation.
6. In addition to its above ground components, the desert Treepak is designed with a hydrophilic water storage pack which is placed into a hole drilled into the desert immediately under the Desert Treepak. The Desert Treepak clips onto the water storage pack, and holds a significant amount of water captured from dews or stored from occasional rains. This hydrophilic water storage pack allows water to be retained rather than draining away. and enables the new tree to more easily send tap roots deep down into the dry soil.
7. The Desert Treepak will break down in a controlled fashion -ideally to substances useable by the treelet as fertiliser. This is essential to allow the plant to grow beyond the Treepak container, and to avoid adding persistent litter to the landscape. The mesh components and outer lid will in some locations be durable so that they can be detached and used again.
8. The Desert Treepak manages light levels by providing sufficient shade to prevent what would otherwise be a small greenhouse turning into an oven.
This is partly provided by the lid, supplemented by using shading on the tube, and the addition of a mesh veil dropping down from the lid to provide additional shade.
9. The Desert Treepak has sufficient structural integrity to survive handling, thermal cycling, and modest attack by small animals.
10. The Desert Treepak offers the option of "drip irrigation" to assist with initial establishment using simple devices made from such materials as soft drink bottles, cork, rubber, and small diameter tubing.
Components as per fig 1.
A. Large water capture funnel shaped lid -also acts as a shade when the Desert Treepak is planted out in the desert. (also shown in figure 3) B. Filter to keep out insects, dirt and general contamination whilst permitting irrigation by rain, and exchange of gas with the atmosphere C. Dew collecting mesh to capture water, reduce desiccating winds, and shade the ground around the Desert Treepak making a more favourable micro-climate.
D. Treelet -tree or other desert plant growing in the Desert Treepak container.
E. Overflow drainage system to allow release of excess water such as might be collected during heave rain. This water will where sufficient capacity exists largely soak into the hydrophilic water storage device below the Treepak.
F. Dew collection dish for root distribution of collected dew and rain.
0. Lifting point (optional) H. Shading shroud -same mesh as the dew collector so will collect some dew as well as shading the tree.
J. Clear Plastic Growth Cylinder -this is a simple tube designed to allow connection of other components. The tube will ideally be made of degradable bio-polymers turning into fertilizer in due course. The tube can be prepared in different sizes, and can incorporate shading which in the desert would ideally be white to reflect rather than black to absorb heat. The cylinder is also coated or impregnated with substances which protect the developing tree from insect attack. fungal, viral and bacterial diseases K. Growth medium -solid or liquid with nutrients, enzymes, auxins, saprophytic fungi, matrix materials to facilitate access to nutrients and such other ingredients as will support, encourage and protect the growing plant (Tree or otherwise).
L. Biodegradable plug Fig2 M. Solid Ground N. Base Cap support spikes with barbed ends (prevents tree tipping over or blowing away) P. Water and nutrient store Q. Core drilled borehole with gap for store expansion R. Dew collector support ring
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| GB2230929A (en) * | 1989-05-05 | 1990-11-07 | John Athelstan Jones | Protective sleeve for plants |
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| JPH0923757A (en) * | 1995-07-10 | 1997-01-28 | Yoshio Hanayama | Cylinder for growing seedling and tree-planting using the same |
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