Seedling transplant unit

A reusable seedling transplant unit for elevated growing, comprising:

• a substantially planar top surface;
• a plurality of cage-like seedling pot-cells having open bottoms and retaining a growth medium and a seedling root lump in use and extending substantially perpendicularly from said planar surface, and disposed in an array;
• each cell including an upper frame which is disposed as part of said planar surface, said upper frame having a central opening in the plane of said planar surface;
• each cell including a plurality of spaced strips originating at said opening and convergently extending to form a cage-shape to comprise each said cell, said strips being directly in contact with the growth medium and said seedling root lump and so spaced as to define slits of predetermined average width which will not let the growth medium fall through;
• said strips being rigid enough as to retain said growth medium in use and being resilient enough to spring back to position when deformed to release the root lump.

A reusable seedling unit for elevated growing using a growth medium, comprising:

• a substantially flat member forming a top of the seedling unit, said flat member having a plurality of first openings all arranged adjacent to each other in an array,
• said flat member having a plurality of pot-like cells, one depending from each opening,
• each cell being formed from a plurality of elongated strip-like members spaced from each other and depending from the periphery of each said opening and converging downwards to form a cage-shaped cell,
• the plurality of strip-like members of each cell converging to form slits between adjacent of said strip-like members, the slits having an average width which will not let through the growth medium in use, said converging strips being directly in contact with the growth medium in use and having resilience to spring back unassisted to their original position when temporarily forced to diverge by making the strips substantially parallel during downward release of said growth medium in use for replanting, the converging strips at their free bottom ends being substantially straight and forming an opening which will not let through the growth medium in use.