RU2004131C1 - Plant-growing cup - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to agriculture, in particular the cultivation of cultivated plants in household and garden plots. The aim is to eliminate the washing out of the nutrient mixture from the cup with irrigation water through the holes at the initial stage of plant growing. The plants are grown in a cup equipped with slots using which, when planting a plant on a bed, form holes covered with petals. The cup has slots having the form of regular geometric lines of figures, separated from each other by local jumpers. 11 ill.

Description

The invention relates to agriculture, in particular to the cultivation of plants in gardens and gardens.

A known method of growing plant seedlings in cups with side and bottom root openings, in which the seedlings are planted directly in the cups or in the greenhouse upon warm weather, directly in the cups.

The disadvantage of the method and the cup is that when watering the nutrient mixture in the cup when it is not already placed in the soil, the nutrient mixture is washed out through the side holes, which weakens the plant and adversely affects its growth.

In order to eliminate leaching of the nutrient mixture, a method and a cup with petals on the bottom and with transverse petals on the side, we have taken for the prototype.

The petals covering the holes eliminate the leaching of the mixture with water. But not always. In thin-walled plastic cups with a wall thickness of 0.2 mm, the petals are very delicate and some of them bend prematurely. The petals should be strong enough and not accidentally bent, and deflected only by the roots of the plant after planting the plant in a soil or a larger vessel. It would be possible to increase the wall thickness, for example, to 0.4 or 0.5 mm. To do this is impractical because it will increase the cost of the material. The sour cream cups we took for the sample are cheap. The transverse arrangement of the petals in the previously proposed cup is not consistent with the direction of root growth.

Growing a plant in a glass can be divided in time into two stages. The first from planting seeds to such a stage of plant growth when it is planted together with a cup on a bed or the cup is placed in a larger vegetative vessel. At the end of the first stage, the roots of the plant are tightly in a glass. The roots firmly cement the nutrient mixture.

In the second step, the roots of the plant, after being planted on the chest or in a larger vessel, extend outside the cup through the lateral and bottom root openings. The sooner the roots come out of the cup, the better for the plant to grow.

The aim of the invention is to eliminate the leaching of the nutrient mixture when watering with a nutrient solution in the first growth stage. This goal is achieved in that the method of growing seedlings

plants in a cup with side and bottom root holes covered with petals formed from the cup material, characterized in that at the initial stage of growing plants, these plants are planted in a cup equipped with slots, with which, at a subsequent stage, with a grown seedling plant on the wall and form the bottom of the cup

0 petals and holes covered with petals directed from top to bottom,

The glass for growing the plant in the first step is characterized in that the slots for forming the petals on the wall and

The bottom 5 serve as the boundaries of geometric lines and figures, for example, a rectangle, square, trapezoid, triangle and semicircle, separated from each other by jumpers.

0 in the invention we claim to:

1) Growing a plant at the first stage in a glass with slots on the side wall and bottom:

2) Growing a plant in a cup 5 with holes covered with petals,

only at the second stage of its growth;

3) Growing a plant in the first and second stage in the same cup;

4) Formation of holes covered with petals at the beginning of the second stage from

wall material using slots;

5) Slots on the wall of the cup, forming geometric lines, and figures with permanent marks in separate places;

6) The direction of the petals from top to bottom along the roots.

We do not pretend to be a cup with side and bottom holes covered with pebbles.

In FIG. 1 shows a plastic thin-walled cup, general view; in FIG. 2 is a section AA in FIG. 1; in FIG. 3-10 are a view of the slots on the side wall; FIG. 11 is a small stalk with a plant with holes covered with triangular-shaped petals after removing the bridge between the converging ends of the slots.

In FIG. 1 and 2 are indicated: 1 - a glass

0 with a wall 2 and a bottom 3, 4 - a neck reinforced for stiffness with a metal ring; 5, 6 - drainage holes, 7 - slots with jumpers 8 between their close ends.

5 in FIG. 3-10, the same designations as in FIG. 1 and 2.

In FIG. 11 denotes: 9 - a gap formed from two slots of Figure 5 after removing the bridge between them, 10-lobes. On the dashed line connecting

the upper ends of the slots, the petals bend and turn upward, the root passage is cleared.

Glasses with slots showing geometric lines are intended for plants with weak roots, for example, onions.

Glasses with slots in the form of geometric figures are intended for plants with powerful roots, for example, for sunflower.

The method is carried out as follows.

In the spring, a nutrient mixture is poured into the cup 1 into which the plants are planted. For guarantee, 2-3 seeds can be planted, later removing weak seedlings. The glass, along with others, is placed in a tray exposed to the light - a window sill or a table by the window. Here the plant is grown in the first stage so that it would be advisable to transplant it directly in the glass to a cup, in a greenhouse or in a vegetative vessel, for example, in a bucket 5 , a jar filled with nutrient solution 6, in a cup holder 7 or on a raft,

Before the second step, the jumpers between the close ends of the slots are removed and thus holes or petals appear on the wall between the slots to cover the root openings. In the latter case, the roots of the plant, bending the petals, pass through the holes into the soil, providing the plant with water and fertilizers.

In prefabricated cups, the slots can be made using enterprise technology. Removing the jumpers in the plastic cup should be done by the gardener. In order not to bend the walls of the cup and damage the roots, the jumpers should be removed by melting them with a wood burning device.

PRI me R. Slots were made in a thin-walled plastic sour cream cup for the subsequent formation of petals in the shape of a triangle with a wood burning apparatus. A glass for sour cream in the form of a truncated cone had a height of 95 mm, a diameter at the neck of 90 mm, diameters of the corolla of 100 mm and a bottom of 67 mm, and a wall thickness of 0.2 mm. The experiment was conducted on a garden plot. A nutritious mixture was poured into the glass, purchased at the Seeds store. On April 24, two seeds of the Muromsky cucumber variety were planted. 2 ma ascended. The weak season has been deleted. On the wall of the cup, on May 15, the bridges were removed from the bottom of the bridge between the slits, and thus triangular holes were formed, covered with petals with the ends pointing down. On the same day, the plants in glasses were planted in a greenhouse with foam insulation from the soil by a film cover from the air, equipped with an electric heating device. Cucumbers were obtained from the plant earlier than during normal planting. On the hill, where the cucumbers were planted without shelter, there was no fruit at all because of the wet and cold summers. Sunflowers reached a height of 3 m. Saving them from falling, they tied them up with wire. Turnip was up to 600 g.

In cups with holes covered with petals, pumpkins, zucchini, and squash were planted.

Years of experience have shown that growing vegetables in cups with holes allows you to get a good crop with early ripening.

Our invention will find wide application among gardeners and garden owners.

(56) USSR Copyright Certificate No. 1508997, AOi G 9/02, 1987.

Claims (1)

The claims CfAKAHHHK FOR GROWING PLANTS, comprising a bottom with holes and a side wall on which slots are made to form petals and a retainer for holding them, characterized in that, in order to improve the conditions for growing plants, the holes on the bottom are made in the form of slots with the formation of petals, a latch for holding the petals is in the form of jumpers connecting the ends of the slots, while all the slots are located at an angle to one another, with the vertices of the corners facing down and one hundred on the bottom - the side of the vertical axis or form a rectangle, or a trapezoid, or a semicircle. 3 CO 5o about CM f i fl c f  fv § G- "I --4 CO Oj r7 8 FIG. 9 4 FIG. 10 YU FIG. eleven