Plant husbandry – Seed tape or mat – method or apparatus
Patent
1989-01-18
1990-03-27
Scherbel, David A.
Plant husbandry
Seed tape or mat, method or apparatus
47 73, A01G 910, A01C 104
Patent
active
049109111
ABSTRACT:
In a tape or packaged tape provided along the length thereof with pockets disposed transversely to the tape and with a desired spacing, said pockets being open at the top and the bottom and containing plants such as seedlings and beddingplants ready for transplantation together with the pockets as a continuous tape. The tape including the pockets and the plants is quite flat and bendable, windable spirally and foldable flat upon itself into a package. The pockets comprise two wall-forming thin layers of material fixed to each other at intervals and being adapted for the supply and regulation of the air and water necessary for the development and growth of the plants inside the packaged tape without the coexistence of any further growth medium thereabout. The plants are developed inside the packaged tape such and the materials of the pocket walls are selected such that the roots of the plants adhere to or penetrate into at least one of said layers, whereas the roots are prevented from penetrating through at least one of the said layers. The tensile strength of the tape is at least on Newton.
In producing the tape, a packaged tape containing viable plant material is soaked with water of a controlled pH and conductance. The soaked package is placed in a germinator box under conditions controlled as to temperature, humidity, and composition of the air and light, thereby assuring the best possible conditions for the germination and development of the roots.
Then the packaged tape is moved to a greenhouse for further development of the top of the plants under conditions controlled as to temperature and content of moisture and nutrients in the package.
In this manner there is constructed a continuous tape containing seedlings or beddingplants allowing the rational and inexpensive production of plants of a uniform, high quality, said tape in addition being suited for a direct, mechanical transplantation on the growing habitat.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3172234 (1965-03-01), Eavis
patent: 4329812 (1982-05-01), Carlisle
patent: 4789584 (1988-12-01), Perrin
Bentle Products AG
Scherbel David A.
Van Patten Michele A.
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