Method and apparatus for transplanting plant material

• US 5,471,788 A
• Filed: 01/12/1994
• Issued: 12/05/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wonder Net Limited
• Original Assignee: Wonder Net Limited
• Inventors: Willes, John A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Raduazo, Henry E.
• Application Number:
  US08/180,711
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 47/75 N, 47/76 WB, 47/79 N, 47/75 N, 47/73 R
• US Class Current: 47/75
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 23/02 Transplanting, uprooting, felling or delimbing trees delimbing standing trees A01G3/00

Abstract

A liner for a planting pot has a generally tubular body with an upper open end and a lower end with a transverse floor. The body has a plurality of openings in the wall thereof. When plant material is planted in a pot having such a liner, the plant material may be transplanted to a larger pot by removing the liner and plant material from the first pot and planting it in a second, larger pot.

Claims

1. A kit for growing an item of plant material during its growth from a relatively small size to a substantially larger size, said kit comprising in combination:

a first liner having a generally tubular body with a first open upper end having a first upper outer diameter and a lower end having a first lower outer diameter, said first lower diameter not greater than said first upper diameter,

said body of said first liner having a continuous wall with a plurality of openings therein, said openings being sufficiently large for plant roots to grow therethrough,

a first pot having a unitary generally tubular wall with an open upper end having a first upper inner diameter and a first lower inner diameter,

said tubular wall of said first pot being without openings penetrating said tubular wall thereof,

said first upper inner diameter and said first lower inner diameter of said first pot sized for snugly receiving said first liner, and said first liner and said first pot sized to receive an item of plant material of a relatively small size planted therein,

a second liner having a generally tubular body with a second open upper end with a second upper outer diameter and a second lower end with a second lower outer diameter,

said second liner having a continuous wall with a plurality of openings therein, said openings being sufficiently large for plant roots to grow therethrough,

a second pot having a unitary generally tubular wall with an open upper end having a second upper inner diameter and a second lower inner diameter,

said tubular wall of said second pot being without openings penetrating said tubular wall thereof,

said second upper inner diameter and said second lower inner diameter of said second pot sized for snugly receiving said second liner,

said second upper diameters of said second liner and said second pot respectively greater than said first upper diameters of said first liner and said first pot respectively and said second lower diameters of said second liner and said second pot respectively greater than said first lower diameters of said first liner and said first pot respectively,

said second pot and said second liner adapted to receive said first liner planted therein, wherein said first liner has an item of plant material planted therein which has grown to a substantially larger size, for further growing said plant material with the roots of said plant material growing through said plurality of openings in said walls of said first liner and within said second liner.