Method and system for producing, without the help of a substrate, a plurality of rooted cuttings from a plurality of unrooted cuttings

A method, comprising:

• cultivating in vitro plant material in a sterile tissue culture medium;
• removing the in vitro cultivated plant material from the sterile tissue culture medium;
• inserting viable, in vitro cultivated plant material into an empty pocket from a plurality of pockets of a strip element, the strip element formed at least in part of biodegradable paper fiber web material having a liquid retaining capacity in a range of at least about 100 g liquid per 100 g of paper fiber web material dry weight to at least about 300 g liquid per 100 g of paper fiber web material dry weight, the strip element having a first wall-forming member and a second wall-forming member fixed along a bonding line to delimit the plurality of pockets and a plurality of spacer areas in an alternating arrangement along a longitudinal direction of the strip element such that a top side of each pocket is open;
• and
• facilitating, without the use of a substrate, at least one of an acclimatization or a root formation of the in vitro cultivated plant material in the plurality of pockets of the strip element.

A method, comprising:

• cultivating in vitro plant material in a sterile tissue culture medium;
• inserting viable, in vitro cultivated plant material into an empty pocket from a plurality of pockets of a strip element, the strip element formed at least in part of biodegradable paper fiber web material having a liquid retaining capacity in a range of at least about 100 g liquid per 100 g of paper fiber web material dry weight to at least about 300 g liquid per 100 g of paper fiber web material dry weight, the strip element having a first wall-forming member and a second wall-forming member fixed along a bonding line to delimit the plurality of pockets and a plurality of spacer areas in an alternating arrangement along a longitudinal direction of the strip element such that a top side of each pocket is open;
• arranging the strip element having in vitro cultivated plant material in the plurality of pockets in a rooting station;
• and
• acclimatizing, in the strip element and without the use of a substrate, the in vitro cultivated plant material in the plurality of pockets of the strip element.

A method, comprising:

• inserting viable, in vitro cultivated plant material into an empty pocket from a plurality of pockets of a strip element, the strip element formed at least in part of biodegradable material,
• wherein the strip element has a first wall-forming member and a second wall-forming member arranged to at least partly overlap the first wall-forming member in a longitudinal direction of the strip element and to not fully overlap the first wall-forming member in a transverse direction of the strip element,
• wherein the first wall-forming member and the second wall-forming member are fixed to each other along a bonding line to delimit the plurality of pockets and a plurality of spacer areas in an alternating arrangement along the longitudinal direction such that a top side of each pocket is open with the first wall-forming member extending past the second wall-forming member in the transverse direction to facilitate insertion of the in vitro cultivated plant material,
• wherein the top side of each pocket has a first width in the longitudinal direction and a bottom side of each pocket has a second width greater than the first width;
• and
• facilitating, without the use of a substrate, at least one of an acclimatization or a root formation of the in vitro cultivated plant material in the plurality of pockets of the strip element.