Implantation of a fixed water/nutrient gel

Details Implantation of a fixed water/nutrient gel Implantation of a fixed water/nutrient gel

1996-09-24

1998-08-18

Carone, Michael J.

Planting

Miscellaneous

47 576, 47 58, A01C 2100, A01H 100

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057945500

ABSTRACT:
The invention isolates a water laden nutrient gel around, or accessible to, an individual seed sufficient to provide for a known quantity of growth. The seed is first encased in a gel being an elongated plug reaching directly to the moisture horizon with or with a surface pool consistent with the specific root pattern requirements of the seed. The gel and seed combination is placed into the ground with a portion of the gel being proximate the moisture horizon to form an artificial root system. As the seed germinates to form a plant, the roots of the plant extend along the artificial pathway formed by the gel to the moisture horizon. The gel consists of water and nutrients required by the seed to grow. The gel can contain a hydrophillic material, to draw water from the moisture horizon along the gel to the root. The gel can contain micro-tubular capillaries to wick water from the moisture horizon to the developing plant root.

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