Plant husbandry – Receptacle for growing medium – For transplanting
Patent
1978-03-01
1980-03-11
Burr, Edgar S.
Plant husbandry
Receptacle for growing medium
For transplanting
47 77, 47 86, A01C 1102
Patent
active
041920961
ABSTRACT:
A plant container for growing plants to a stage suitable for transplanting. The plant container comprises a base having an imperforate upper surface with a rib upstanding from the upper center of the base and a removable sleeve arrangement that is disposed concentrically about the rib. The lower edge of the sleeve arrangement is disposed on or adjacent to the outer upper peripheral surface of the base to provide drainage openings therebetween. The sleeve arrangement is removable to permit the base and root mass and growing medium of the plant grown in the container and disposed about the rib to be transplanted as a unit. The rib functions to hold the root mass and growing medium of the plant on the base and to permit the container, absent the sleeve, to be handled with a minimum loss of growing medium in normal handling and transplanting operations. In one preferred embodiment, the underside of the base is provided with a depending nose section having a ground penetrating configuration for injection planting of the container absent the sleeve.
In another preferred embodiment, a plurality of integrally interconnected bases are provided in an array of rows and ranks to provide a plurality of integrally interconnected containers for the initial growing of plants in the containers in a greenhouse.
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Platt John R.
Weaver William N.
Beart Robert W.
Buckman Thomas W.
Burr Edgar S.
Feyrer James R.
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
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