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US 2014/0208645 A1Published application
Methods to Grow, Deliver, and Plant Young Trees in a Removable Tubular Container
AssigneeThomas L. Guggenheim
InventorsThomas Link Guggenheim, Roy Ray Odle
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Abstract
Methods to grow, provide and plant a young tree using a novel removable tubular container are disclosed. The container promotes the growth of a well formed protected root structure that minimizes transplant shock at the time the young tree is moved and permanently planted. The removable container and methods described provide for a fast growing inexpensive tree that is easily planted by a single person.
Claims34
A method of growing a tree comprising the steps of:
- providing a tubular container having an open top end and an open bottom end;
- standing the bottom of the tubular container on a porous media and partially filling the tubular container with soil;
- planting a tree seed, a germinated tree seed, or a bare root tree seedling in the soil within the tubular container;
- adding soil to the tubular container to cover the seed, the root flair of the germinated seed, or the root flair of the tree seedling, wherein the height of the soil in the tubular container is 2 to 12 inches from the top of the tubular container;
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- maintaining the tubular container under growth conditions until the tree root system extends at least half of the height of soil in the tubular container to form a tree rooted in a soil cylinder.
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A tree growing system comprising:
- a tubular container with an open top end and an open bottom end;
- soil filling a least half the height of the tubular container;
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- a tree planted in the soil with trunk extending through the top end and with the root system extending downward at least half of the height of the soil container in the tubular container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.