JPH0614664A - Culture and commercialization of gregarious plant and vessel for culture and commercialization of gregarious plant - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate water washing, etc., of gregarious plants by culturing the gregarious plants in a shallow plate-shaped vessel involving a culture bed having a rugged bottom part, packaging the gregarious plants together with the plate-shaped vessel in an outer container and shipping it. CONSTITUTION:Seeds are sown into a shallow plate-shaped vessel 2 having a rugged 13 bottom 11 having drainage holes 14 and gregarious plants (P) are cultured. The height of the surrounding walls of the vessel is controlled to <=1/3 the stem length of the grown gregarious plants and the plate-shaped vessels are put in layers so that the vertical distance between plate-shaped vessels may be changed in steps corresponding to the stem length of the gregarious plants. The grown gregarious plants, together with the plate-shaped vessel are packaged in an outer container 16. While the seed crusts (P1) are removed by water washing, the root hairs of the gregarious plants are intertwisted with the rugged part of the culture bed. Thereby, the stems (P2) are prevented from getting out of order.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for cultivating and commercializing community plants such as "sprouts" or "kaiware", and a container for commercializing the cultivation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to cultivate group plants under high quality and provide them in a fresh form on a dining table, the applicant of the present invention has already published JP-B-1-42645 (Japanese Patent Application No. 59-23578).
No. 1) and Japanese Patent Publication No. 2-33342 (Japanese Patent Application No. 60-16)
No. 9201) has proposed a breeding method and a breeding apparatus.

[0003]

According to the above-mentioned prior art, when cultivating a plant in a unit container, the growth degree of the plant in the container can be made uniform, so that the commercial value is remarkably improved. It has become possible.

However, in the present inventor, after that,
According to further research, in the above-mentioned conventional technology, since the community plants are put on the market in a state of being housed in a unit container, the consumers take out the community plants from the unit container,
We have found that so-called root cutting to remove root hair and so-called dehulling to remove bean hulls attached to the stalk must be performed, which requires complicated work and time before being served on a table.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a method for cultivating and commercializing colonies that solves the above-mentioned problems, and is constituted by means of a cultivation bed having a large number of irregularities at the bottom. Along with that, using a shallow dish container having a height of the peripheral wall that is less than one-third of the stem length of the colony plant to be cultivated, after sowing on the cultivation bed, the dish containers are stacked vertically, and the initial cultivation period is set. Place the bottom of the upper-layer dish container inside the opening of the lower-layer dish container, and the bottom of the upper-layer dish container above the opening of the lower-layer dish container during the medium-term cultivation period. The point is to open the upper part of the opening of each dish container during the period, and after the stem length grows long above the opening part of the dish container, the plant plants are packed together with the dish container.

[0006] The present invention also provides a container for cultivating and commercializing a group of plants for use in carrying out the above method. The means for constructing the container is to provide a bottom with a cultivating floor consisting of a large number of irregularities. , A shallow dish container having a height of the peripheral wall ⅓ or less of the stem length of the plant plant to be cultivated, and the plant plant cultivated on the cultivation floor and the stem length of which has grown long above the opening of the dish container. An outer container for packaging with a dish container.

In the embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable that the peripheral wall of the dish container is provided with a control rib protruding inward from the opening edge.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

To carry out the present invention, a plurality of total containers 1 as shown in FIG. 1 and a dish container 2 constituting a plurality of unit containers are used.

Each total container 1 is provided with a large number of window holes 4 in a rectangular thick flat plate portion 3 regularly, for example, in a grid pattern as shown in the drawing, and is located around the window holes 4. A concave portion 4a is formed on the upper surface of the flat plate portion 3. A support wall 5 is erected on two opposite short sides of the flat plate portion 3, and a recess 6 is formed inside the support wall 5, and more preferably from the lower portions of both support walls 5 and 5. A cavity 7 is formed as a recess over the lower surface of the flat plate portion 3. Such a total container 1 is preferably integrally formed of relatively hard foam plastic.

A plurality of the total containers 1 are laminated, and the total containers in the upper and lower layers are arranged such that the total container 1 in the upper layer is flat with respect to the total container 1 in the lower layer as indicated by an arrow X in the drawing. A mode in which the layers are staggered and stacked, and a mode in which the upper layer total container 1 is stacked at the same position as the lower layer total container 1 without shifting the phase is possible. The lower layer total containers are stacked on each other via a stacking support.

In the stacking mode shown by the arrow X, in the total container 1, the top surface of the flat plate portion 3 is the first support portion 8. on the other hand,
In the stacking mode shown by the arrow Y, in the total container 1, the top portion of the support wall 6 is the second support portion 9. The overall height of the support wall 6 is preferably set to be approximately twice the thickness of the flat plate portion 3 or more.

Each of the dish containers 2 constituting a large number of unit containers has a shallow dish shape having an upper opening which is removably inserted into the window hole 4 of the total container 1, and is formed from the edge of the upper opening. The flange 10 provided so as to project outside is provided with the window hole 4
It can be freely fitted in the concave portion 4a around. Therefore, the dish container 2
When is inserted into the window hole 4 from above, the flange 10 engages with the concave portion 4a, so that the dish container 2 can be hung on the total container 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, the dish container 2 is made of a transparent or translucent plastic thin plate, is integrally formed by vacuum forming, etc., and has a bottom portion 11 and a tapered peripheral wall 12 that expands to an upper opening. , The flange 10 is integrally provided. The dish container 2 has a square cross section, a circular shape, a hexagonal shape,
It is desirable to have a symmetrical shape such as an octagon.

The bottom portion 11 of the dish container 2 constitutes a cultivation floor 13 having a large number of irregularities on the inner surface thereof, and a large number of drainage small holes 14 are formed in the concave portion or groove.

The height of the peripheral wall 12 of the dish container 2 is one third or less of the stem length of the colony plant P to be cultivated, and a control rib 15 protruding inward from the opening edge is formed. In the case of the illustrated example, the control rib 15 is formed in a U-shaped cross section so as to project from the flange 10 toward the inside of the dish container 2.

In the above structure, when cultivating a plant, the seedbed 2 of the dish container 2 is directly sown. That is, seeds are sown directly on the cultivating floor 13 having irregularities without laying a nonwoven fabric or a urethane sheet on the cultivating floor 13. For example, when cultivating the sprouts of mung beans, the seeds S of mung beans are laid on the cultivation floor 13 of the dish container 2.
A large number of the dish containers 2 seeded with the seeds S in this way are inserted into the window holes 4 of the total container 1 and suspended through the flange 10.
A large number of total containers 1 into which plate containers 2 are inserted and suspended are stacked as described above and provided for breeding.

During the initial cultivation period, the upper-layer total container 1 is stacked on the lower-layer total container 1 in a phase-shifted manner as shown by the arrow X. That is, as shown in FIG. 3A, the upper layer total container 1 is placed and engaged with the first support portion 8 of the lower layer total container 1, and the upper layer total container 1 is placed between the support walls 6 of the lower layer total container 1. By arranging, a large number of layers are stacked without the risk of collapse. In this laminated state, the bottom portion of the upper layer dish container 2 is deeply inserted into the opening of the lower layer dish container 2. This layered product is installed in a room at about 25 ° C., and is sprinkled from above by a sprinkler about three times a day. At this time, sprinkling water from above is caused by the drainage small hole 14 at the bottom of the dish container 2 of each layer.
The seeds S in all the dish containers 2 can be appropriately wetted by flowing through to the lower layer.

During this initial cultivation period, when germination begins, the upper layer total container 1 is stacked at the same position as the lower layer total container 1 without shifting the phase as indicated by the arrow Y described above. Rearrange as follows. That is, as shown in FIG. 3B, the upper layer total container 1 is placed on the second support portion 9 of the support wall 5 of the lower layer total container 1. In this stacked state, the bottom of the upper dish container 2 is shallowly inserted into the opening of the lower dish container 2. It is the same as above that water is sprinkled about three times a day from above in a room at about 25 ° C.

During such an initial cultivation period, sprouts sprouted from the seed S have different growth speeds depending on various kinds of sprouts, but the sprouts grown early grow in the dish container 2 of the upper layer inserted into the dish container 2. Growth is suppressed by the bottom, and the sprouts that grew late and the height are aligned. Further, with germination, the cultivation floor 13 in which the roots of seeds have a fine wavy shape due to unevenness
It is easily entangled and fixed to. In addition, in the initial cultivation period, the above-described laminated form of FIG. 3 (A) may be omitted and the laminated form shown in FIG. 3 (B) may be adopted from the beginning. In short, during the initial cultivation period, the bottom part of the upper dish container 2 has only to be positioned within the opening of the lower dish container 2, which can achieve the purpose of matching the height as described above.

During the middle cultivation period, as shown in FIG. 4, an empty total container 1a is interposed between the upper and lower total containers 1,1.
As a result, the bottom of the upper dish container 2 is positioned above the opening of the lower dish container 2. At this time, as shown in FIGS. 4 (A) and 4 (B), the directions of the upper and lower total containers 1 and 1 and the empty total container 1a to be inserted are selected to either the arrow X or Y described above. Thus, the distance between the upper and lower dish containers 2 can be adjusted. Therefore, in the first half of the medium-term cultivation period, the bottom portion of the upper-layer dish container 2 is positioned close to the opening of the lower-layer dish container 2 as shown in FIG. As shown in (B), the bottom portion of the upper-layer dish container 2 is positioned away from the opening of the lower-layer dish container 2, and cultivation can be performed while suppressing the stem lengths of the plants P so as to make them uniform. Even during this medium-term cultivation period, water is sprinkled about three times a day from above in a room at about 25 ° C.

During the middle cultivation period, the plant P grows upward from the opening of the dish container 2 and grows. The plant P that is going to grow from the opening of the dish container 2 to the outside grows in the control rib 15. The direction of growth is modified due to interference, and it can grow upward without spreading to the outside.

During the latter cultivation period, as shown in FIG. 5, all the upper and lower layers of the total container 1 are separated, and the upper part of the opening of each dish container 2 is opened, and water is sprinkled about three times a day as described above. I do. Therefore, the stem length of the plant P is made to grow long above the dish container 2, and the cultivation is completed. In the case of the illustrated example, the dish container 2 is appropriately placed on a shelf or the like while the dish container 2 is suspended from the dish container 1.
Alternatively, the dish container 2 may be individually installed on a shelf or the like.

The dish container 2 which has been cultivated is packaged together with the plant P in the exterior container 16 and shipped to the market. For the outer packaging container 16, for example, a bag made of a plastic film can be used.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the packaging method, in which the buckets 18 are attached to the conveyor 17 at predetermined intervals. Therefore, when the cultivated colony plant P is faced downward and inserted into the bucket 18 together with the dish container 2, after being conveyed,
At the end side of the conveyor 17, the bucket 18 is turned downward, at which time the dish container 2 is turned downward and falls with the plant P. Therefore, the plant P with the dish container 2 is automatically accommodated in the exterior packaging container 16 by making the exterior packaging container 16 stand by at the drop point. After accommodation, the opening of the outer packaging container 16 is appropriately closed with a binding material 19,
The product is shipped in this state.

FIG. 7 shows another example of the packaging method, in which the cultivated community plant P is thrown into the hopper 20 with the dish container 2 facing downward. The hopper 20 is provided with a door 21 that can be opened and closed at the bottom, opens when the load of the dish container 2 is received, and closes by a spring or the like when the dish container 2 and the plant P pass through. Then, it is decelerated by the door 21 and the hopper 2
The dish container 2 and the plant P that have dropped from 0 fall through the chute 22 and are automatically stored in the exterior packaging container 16 that is kept waiting at the drop point. After accommodation, the opening of the exterior packaging container 16 is appropriately closed by the binding material 19, and the product is shipped in this state.

A consumer who purchases the products thus shipped can take out the group plant P from the outer packaging container 16 and use it for food. At this time, the plant P
Since root hairs are attached and locked to the cultivated floor 13 having irregularities, when the cluster plant P is grasped and pulled out, the dish container 2 follows and is taken out from the exterior packaging container 16.

By the way, the grown community plant P is shown in FIG.
As shown in (C), the seed dregs P1 such as bean hulls are attached to the middle part of the stem P2.
However, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily remove the seed dregs P1 by washing the colony plant P together with the dish container 2 by washing with water or the like. That is, during this washing, the colony plant P entangles the root hair with the unevenness of the cultivation floor 13, so that it does not separate and disturb the stem,
On the other hand, the stem P2 can be easily dispersed, the seed dust P1 can be washed off, and the seed dust can be removed while maintaining the freshness quality in a natural cultivation state without breaking or damaging the stem or root. It can be performed.

Therefore, the removal of this kind of dust P1 can be easily performed by the consumer who purchased the product, and also by mechanical cleaning in the process before packaging in the outer packaging container 16 in the cultivation plant. You can also

When the washing is completed, it is necessary to cut off the root hairs of the colony plant P by cutting this time. According to the present invention, as shown by the chain line W in FIG. The community plants P may be cut all at once with a knife or the like along the opening edge. That is, since the root hair of the cluster plant P is entangled with the unevenness of the cultivation floor 13 as described above, the cutting can be easily performed while the stems P2 of the cluster plant P are held in a bundle. Therefore, it is not necessary to take roots one by one as in the conventional case, and it is not necessary to wash the roots again after cutting the roots. If the height of the peripheral wall 12 of the dish container 2 is made as shallow as possible, the yield of the stem P2 portion which is the edible portion of the community plant P such as sprouts can be improved.

Thus, the seedlings P1 are removed and the community plant from which the part near the root hair is cut off can be used for eating on the table.

[0032]

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY According to the present invention, the plant group P is cultivated in the container 2 for each unit, and the cultivated plant plant P is shipped together with the container 2 to the market. A shallow dish container 2 having a floor 13 and a height of the peripheral wall 12 of which is one third or less of the stalk length of the cultivated plant is used, and the cultivated plant P is packaged in an exterior container 16 together with the dish container 2. In the market distribution stage, the group plant P can be protected by the outer packaging container 16, while the consumer who purchased the product bundles the group plant P through the dish container 2. The seed dregs P1 can be easily removed by washing or the like while keeping it held. Particularly, during this washing, the colony plant P causes the root hair to grow on the cultivation floor 13
Since it is entangled in the unevenness of the, it does not disturb the stem by separating, on the other hand, the stem P2 is easily dispersed, the seed dregs P1 is washed off, and in the natural cultivation state, The stem and root are not broken or damaged, and the seed residue can be removed while maintaining the freshness quality.

When cutting off the root hairs of the cluster plant P before eating, the cluster plant P may be cut all at once with a knife along the opening edge of the dish container 2, and at this time, the cluster plant P is the same as described above. Since the root hair is entangled with the unevenness of the cultivation floor 13 as described above, the roots can be easily cut while holding the stems P2 of the cluster plant P in a bundle, and the roots can be individually picked up as in the conventional case. It is not necessary, and there is also an effect that it is not necessary to wash again after root cutting.

Further, in the present invention, by providing the control ribs 15 projecting inward at the opening edge of the dish container 2, even though the dish container 2 has a shallow bottom, the plant container P is placed in the dish container. The effect that the cluster plant P can be cultivated so that it grows upward as a bundled bundle without growing outward from the opening of No. 2 and has a high quality and facilitates the subsequent packaging work. There is.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a total container and a dish container used in the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a dish container used in the present invention,
(A) is a vertical sectional view of the dish container, (B) is a sectional view taken along line BB,
(C) is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of a state in which it is packaged in an exterior packaging container together with the cultivated community plants.

FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view showing a state during an initial cultivation period in the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a state during a middle cultivation period in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing the state of the latter cultivation period in the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a packaging method using an outer packaging container.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of a packaging method using an outer packaging container.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Total Container 2 Dish Container 10 Flange 11 Bottom 12 Peripheral Wall 13 Cultivation Floor 14 Drainage Small Hole 15 Control Rib 16 Exterior Packaging Container 19 Binding Material S Seed P Community Plant

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. Seeding on the cultivation floor using a shallow dish container provided with a cultivation bed having a large number of irregularities at the bottom and having a peripheral wall height of one third or less of the stem length of the plant to be cultivated. After that, the dish containers are stacked vertically, and the bottom of the dish container of the upper layer is positioned within the opening of the dish container of the lower layer during the initial cultivation period, and the bottom of the dish container of the upper layer is positioned during the medium-term cultivation period. It is located above the opening of the dish container in the lower layer, and the upper part of the opening of each dish container is opened during the latter cultivation period, and the stem length grows long above the opening of the dish container, and then a plant plant together with the dish container. A method for cultivating and commercializing community plants, which comprises packaging. 2. A shallow dish container provided with a cultivating floor having a large number of irregularities at the bottom and having a peripheral wall height of one third or less of the stem length of the cultivated plant, and a cultivated on the cultivating floor. A container for cultivating and commercializing a plant plant, comprising an exterior container for packaging the plant plant having a long stem length above the opening of the dish container together with the dish container. 3. The container according to claim 2, wherein the peripheral wall of the dish container is provided with a control rib protruding inward from the opening edge.