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US 2025/0017152 A1Published application
Above ground watering system for vandaceous orchids
OwnerKosei Weberinventor
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Abstract
An above ground watering system for vandaceous orchid air plants. Some embodiments may comprise one or more watering elements, such as a watering manifold that may deliver water through one or more outtake ports through water delivery members that may extend from the watering manifold and ribbons wrapped around the roots of the vandaceous orchid to deliver water and/or nutrients continuously via capillary action.
Claims20
A jardinière suspension system for watering aerial roots of a vandaceous orchid, comprising:
- a first receptacle piece;
- a second receptacle piece coupleable with the first receptacle piece to form a complete receptacle for growing a vandaceous orchid therein, wherein the complete receptacle comprises a non-circular elliptical or non-circular semi-elliptical shape in cross-section, wherein the complete receptacle is open at the bottom and unable to hold soil;
- at least one coupling piece for coupling the first receptacle piece to the second receptacle piece;
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- a watering manifold having at least one watering outtake port for delivery of water to aerial roots of the vandaceous orchid;
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- at least one water delivery member is configured to extend from the watering manifold, wherein any one water delivery member of the at least one water delivery member is configured to be wrapped spirally about an individual aerial root of the vandaceous orchid to deliver water continuously from the watering manifold via capillary action;
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- wherein the at least one water delivery member is configured to depend from the manifold, whereby water passes through the at least one water delivery member gravitationally from the manifold, and wherein the at least one water delivery member is configured to wrap spirally around a vandaceous orchid aerial root and wherein the at least one water delivery member is configured to directly contact vandaceous orchid aerial roots.
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A jardinière suspension arrangement comprising:
- a vandaceous orchid;
- a first receptacle piece;
- a second receptacle piece coupled with the first receptacle piece to form a complete receptacle the vandaceous orchid being arranged within the complete receptacle, wherein the complete receptacle comprises a non-circular elliptical or non-circular semi-elliptical shape in cross-section;
- at least one coupling piece coupling the first receptacle piece to the second receptacle piece;
- a watering manifold having at least one watering outtake port for delivery of water to aerial roots of the vandaceous orchid;
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- at least one water delivery member configured to extend from the watering manifold and be wrapped about one or more roots of the vandaceous orchid to deliver water continuously from the watering manifold via capillary action;
- wherein the at least one water delivery member is wrapped about one or more aerial roots of the vandaceous orchid to deliver water continuously.
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A method of watering a vandaceous orchid, comprising:
- providing a first receptacle piece;
- providing a second receptacle piece;
- providing at least one coupling piece for coupling the first receptacle piece to the second receptacle piece;
- coupling the first receptacle piece with the second receptacle piece by means of the coupling piece to form a complete receptacle for growing a vandaceous orchid therein, wherein the complete receptacle comprises a non-circular elliptical or non-circular semi-elliptical shape in cross-section;
- providing a watering manifold having at least one watering outtake port for delivery of water to aerial roots of the vandaceous orchid;
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- providing at least one water delivery member configured to extend from the watering manifold to deliver water continuously from the watering manifold via capillary action;
- wrapping the at least one water delivery member about one or more aerial roots of the vandaceous orchid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.