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Variable and efficient space utilization type cultivation method

US7694458B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 14, 2005
Grant dateApr 13, 2010
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 14, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA01G31/065
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Ecopots having a large number of holes permeable to the culture solution and air are used for disposing seeding and seedling pots or for planting seedlings and are hung in the space in a house, a bucket for collecting the drips of the culture solution is placed below each pot for collecting the residual solution to thereby prevent the infection by pathogens, and a balancing toy-like hanger hung vertically from a hook hung movably from a shelf pole in the house via a loop clutch, an ecopot hanging chain, a main melon stem attracting cord, a melon fruit hanging cord and so forth are used to render the ecopot hung from the ecopot hanging chain orientation-variable in all directions so that oxygen may be fed abundantly to the rooting zone of the horticultural plant and the plant may receive the sunshine with ease.

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