Plant tube for use in flower pots

• US 5,172,517 A
• Filed: 07/16/1991
• Issued: 12/22/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Poul Timmermann
• Original Assignee: Poul Timmermann
• Inventors: Thomsen, Knud H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Raduazo, Henry E.
• Application Number:
  US07/730,601
• Time in Patent Office: 525 Days
• Field of Search: 47/63, 47/70, 47/79, 47/82, 47/83, 47/75
• US Class Current: 47/83
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/122 Stakes

Abstract

A special production pot includes a upstanding portion and a conical center depression for accepting lower pointed end of a plant tube. The bottom edge of the plant tube is elevated well above the top of the upstanding pot portion of the special production pot in order to provide for clearance for the plant'"'"'s roots to grow in the substrate of the pot. Thus, the plant can be grown in this manner in a truck garden. When the plant has grown to a sufficient size for sale, the special production pot and plant tube is placed within a sales pot. Thus, the combined special production pot and the sales pot can be delivered to the customer.

Claims

1. A plant pot adapted for accommodating an upstanding, relatively narrow plant tube in which a plant is grown, the plant pot comprising a bottom portion, an upstanding portion provided in said bottom portion adapted to receive a lower end of the plant tube, and adapted to support the plant tube in a centered portion of the plant pot, and

wherein said upstanding portion comprises a centrally upstanding shell portion having a centrally disposed conical depression and adapted to engage a downwardly pointed end of the plant tube.

2. A plant pot according to claim 1, wherein said plant pot in fashioned of a recycable plastic, mounted the plant pot with the upstanding portion mountable on a carrier pot of a conventional plant pot when the plant has been grown to a ready for sale condition.

3. A plant pot adapted for accommodating an upstanding, relatively narrow plant tube in which a plant is grown, the plant pot comprising a bottom portion, an upstanding portion provided in said bottom portion adapted to receive a lower end of the plant tube, and adapted to support the plant tube in a centered portion of the plant pot, and

wherein said plant pot is fashioned of a recycable plastic, the plant pot with the upstanding portion being mountable on a carrier pot of a conventional plant pot when the plant has been grown to a ready for sale condition, and

wherein said upstanding portion comprises a centrally upstanding shell portion having a centrally disposed conical depression and adapted to engage a downwardly pointed end of the plant tube.