System for growing plants

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1976-09-28

1978-10-10

Burr, Edgar S.

Plant husbandry

Water culture, apparatus or method

47 62, A01G 3100

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041188918

ABSTRACT:
In a conduit system for feeding water and nutrients to plants, the conduits are formed of thin, pliable, collapsible plastic foil. The plant is placed in the tube through slots in the tube and the conduit is placed upon a sloped platform so that nutrient in water solution fed in at one end of the conduit can drain through the conduit and out the other end thereof. A stick member to partially dam the flow of the solution through the conduit is used at the location of a plant root system in the conduit to assure adequate feeding of the root system, especially before the root system is well developed. The stick may be provided with legs thereby to form a bridge with a plurality of such bridges arranged to bridge over the tube at locations so spaced along the tube as to support a horizontally disposed vine substantially out of contact with the tube.

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Schippers, P. A. Annotated Bibliography on Nutrient Film Technique, V.C. Mimeo Lab., 1-1977, Department of Vegetable Crops, N.Y. State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853.

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