JPH0137090B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention enables seeds to be sown uniformly and easily without the need for skill when growing plants such as Kaiwari radish, and furthermore, it is possible to sow seeds uniformly and easily without the need for any skill. The present invention relates to a plant cultivation method that facilitates feeding and ensures growth, and an apparatus therefor.

Conventionally, there are methods for cultivating shellfish radish and other plants, such as the one typified by the method of Japanese Patent Publication No. 15086/1986, but in relation to hydroponic cultivation, it is necessary to supply liquids including fertilizers in an appropriate manner. It has been desired to provide a cultivation method that can reliably and uniformly and easily sow seeds in each cultivation section, but the present invention was completed in view of these conventional problems and to solve them. This is what I did.

The gist of the plant cultivation method is to invert the lid body, which is mainly composed of one or more pressing parts, on the surface of which is provided with a seed accommodating part for accommodating one or more seeds for cultivation. A first step of sowing seeds in which seeds are sown and stored in a seed accommodating section on the surface of the pressing part, and a cultivation main body having a bottomed cultivation groove that is provided with a number of water holes penetrating through the bottom and which can be externally fitted into the pressing part. This plant cultivation method includes a second step of interposing a porous plate between the bottom of the cultivation groove and the surface of the pressing part and fitting it onto the pressing part of the lid, and a third step of inverting the assembled whole.

To further explain the details of the present invention, the method for cultivating plants according to the present invention is carried out using a plant cultivating device, that is, the device consisting of a cultivating body and a lid shown in the drawings. method is adopted.

Therefore, the details of the present invention will be explained after explaining the details of this cultivation device. Attached Figures 1 to 5
The explanatory diagram of the cultivation device in the figure is made up of three components: a cultivation main body A, a porous plate body B, and a lid body C for pressing seeds from above, as represented in Figure 1. . First, for the cultivation body A in Fig. 1, an inexpensive material such as polystyrene foam, which has a relatively smaller specific gravity than water, is selected to form a box-shaped body, and a cultivation section is constructed inside this box. do. The cultivation main body A in the illustrated example is generally box-shaped, and the surrounding side wall 1 has a part cutout 2 at the upper end of the center part to open upward, and the inside is partitioned with a partition wall 3. A water hole 6 is provided at the bottom 5 of the groove 4.
It is made up of a large number of. This water passage hole 6 penetrates through the bottom part 5 as illustrated in FIG. form a support protrusion 7. In the illustrated example, the support protrusions 7 are separated by continuous support protrusions 7a so as to separate a set of three horizontally arranged water holes 6 from each other, and the water holes 6 are separated between the support protrusions 7a. three water passage holes 6 between continuous support protrusions 7a by providing discontinuous support protrusions 7b around the water passage holes 6.
are in a state where they can be continuous with each other in the cultivation groove 4 in the cultivation main body A. In the illustrated example, the cultivation grooves 4 are formed at three locations by providing two partition walls 3. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, which will be described later, a continuous protrusion 8 is provided on the bottom surface of the cultivation body A so as to surround the water passage hole 6, so that when a large number of cultivation bodies A are piled up, they do not overlap each other. It allows for stacking. Next, the cultivation groove 4 of this cultivation main body A
The porous plate B to be placed inside is selected from an appropriate material such as a foamed urethane sheet or other foamed synthetic resin soft sheet. Seeds D of plants to which the plant cultivation method is applied, for example, seeds of Japanese radish can be sown in a certain area at a certain density. As shown in FIG. 1, this board B is provided with slits 9 for cutting so that when plants such as daikon radish are grown on this board B, it is easy to divide the plants into a certain amount. As the cutting slit 9, for example, a continuous slit with a size of 8 cm on one side is provided, and at the same time, a unit of a larger size than this can be used in conjunction with the slit 9a in the width direction as shown in the illustration. A plate body B is provided with longitudinal slits 9b, and can be used in combination with a small unit 10 and a large unit 11.
It is said that This plate B is installed in the cultivation groove 4 of the cultivation main body A as shown in FIG. 1, seeds D are sown on the surface of the plate B, and the lid C shown in FIG. Then, the roots of the seeds D sown on the surface of the porous plate B pass through the porous plate B and grow into the water holes 6 of the cultivation groove 4 below or toward the bottom 5 of the cultivation groove 4. I'm trying to get comfortable.

Here, the lid C has a lower structure that can fit into the side wall 1 of the cultivation main body A as shown in the figure, and also forms one or more pressing parts 12 that can fit into the bottomed cultivation groove 4, A seed accommodating section 14 is provided on the surface of the pressing section 13, which can accommodate one or more of the seeds of daikon radish and other seeds D for cultivation. Here, the seed accommodating portion 14 may be provided with bottomed holes in a lattice shape capable of accommodating the seeds D, as shown on the surface of the lid C in FIG. 2, or as shown in FIG. The portions 14 may be set by changing their positions in a staggered manner.
Normally, in the above-mentioned location unit of 8 cm square, it is necessary to sow about 4 g of dried seeds of Kaiwari Daikon, and the average number of these 4 g of dry seeds is about 314 ± 10. Therefore, it is necessary to set this number of seeds per 8 cm square on the pressing part surface 13 for this seed storage part 14 as well. When the seed storage sections 14 are arranged in a lattice pattern as shown in FIG. 2, the distance between the seed storage sections 14 may become extremely narrow. You can take a long distance. still,
In the lid C, reference numeral 15 shown in the figure is a groove between the pressing parts 12, and is configured so that it can be fitted onto the partition wall 3 of the cultivation body A described above, and the handle 16 is located in the notch 2 of each cultivation body A. Moreover, what is shown as 17 is a water passage groove for causing the liquid accumulated in the lid to flow downward.

The cultivation method to which this cultivation device is applied is used in the following manner. That is, the above-mentioned surface 13 can accommodate one or more seeds accommodating part 14.
Lid C so that the pressing part 12 provided with the
With the pressing part 12 inverted as shown in FIG.
First, a first step is adopted in which the seeds D to be cultivated are accommodated in the seed accommodating portion 14 of the surface 13 of. A suitable automatic machine or the like may be used as a method for storing the seeds D into the seed storage section 14 in this first step. By scattering an appropriate amount of seeds D and lightly sweeping and caressing the surface with a broom-shaped object, the seeds D can be separated into a single number in the seed storage section 14, or the seeds D can accommodate two seeds at a time. At times, two items are accommodated at a time, and the remaining items can be removed from the lid C by sweeping them off the surface or adjusting them by vibration or other methods. The seeds D to be sown on the surface 13 of the pressing part of the inverted lid C are soaked in water for about 8 hours, as in the conventional method, and have some roots. Next, the above-mentioned porous plate B is placed on the pressing part surface 13 of this lid C, and the cultivation groove 4 of the cultivation main body A is placed on the pressing part 12 of the lid C so that these are fitted from above. The second step is to fit and fix them, and then the third step is to invert the assembled whole, thereby providing the assembled plant cultivation apparatus as shown in FIG. 1. be done. Then, the assembled cultivation device is used in the same way as for general hydroponic cultivation.
This is suspended on the surface of the liquid in which fertilizer etc. are dissolved, and the hydroponic cultivation liquid is introduced into the main body A from the water passage hole 6 of the cultivation main body 6, and this liquid and the porous plate B are It promotes root growth and germination of a certain seed D while bringing the seed D into contact with the seed D. Usually, this lid C is fitted onto the cultivation main body A and placed in a dark place for 3 days while being pressed from above, and then after removing the lid C, it is exposed to sunlight or artificial sunlight for 3 to 3 days. If you leave it for 4 days, the shellfish will grow to about 8cm.
You can get something like that. In addition, the second cultivation method
In order to interpose the porous plate B between the lid C and the cultivation main body A in the process, seeds D are sown on the surface of the lid C, the porous plate B is placed on the surface, and then the cultivation is started. A method was adopted in which the main body A was fitted onto the cover C, but with the porous plate B previously accommodated on the bottom of the cultivation groove 4 of the cultivation main body A, the main body A was fitted externally onto the surface of the inverted cover C. As a result, the porous plate B is attached to the bottom surface of the cultivation groove 4 of the cultivation main body A and the surface 1 of the lid pressing part 12.
It is also possible to adopt a method of intervening between the two as appropriate.

As described above, the method for cultivating plants such as Kaiwari Daikon radish according to the present invention and the apparatus thereof include the seed storage portions with a constant density on the surface of the lid body for placing the seeds under a constant fixed condition in which the seeds are pressed into the cultivation body. By using the formed seed, it is extremely easy to sow a certain amount of seeds in a certain area, and it is naturally possible to automate this process, which simplifies the seed sowing process of the plant cultivation method. Moreover, since the porous plate is placed on the surface of this seed and slits are provided so that the plate can be divided into pieces of a certain area, the surface of the porous plate has the shape shown in Figure 1. In order to uniformly sow seeds in a certain area, simply by reversing the lid and the porous plate, that is, by simply reversing the entire cultivation with the lid covered, the uniform cultivation state shown in Figure 1 can be achieved. Moreover, it enables easy sowing of seeds. Furthermore, even in the case of a cultivation main body, by providing a large number of water holes in the cultivation groove divided by partition walls as described above, the liquid under the cultivation main body can be quickly and reliably introduced into the main body. By providing support protrusions with grooves that allow water to flow to other adjacent water holes, an appropriate space can be created between the porous plate and the bottom of the cultivation groove, facilitating the development of plant roots. Moreover, it can be leveled quickly and the supply of liquid can be completely leveled.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of the cultivation body and the porous plate lid before they are fitted into each other in the correct position.
Fig. 2 is an explanatory exploded perspective view illustrating one step for adopting this method, and Fig. 3 shows a state in which the seeds are assembled together and placed in the cultivation groove mainly for cultivation and pressed by the pressing part of the lid. FIG. 4 is an enlarged partial perspective view of the bottom of the cultivation main body, and FIG. 5 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the surface of the pressing part of the lid. A: Cultivation main body, B: Porous board, C: Lid,
D: seed, 1: side wall, 2: notch, 3: septum, 4:
Cultivation groove, 5: bottom, 6: water hole, 7: support protrusion,
7a: continuous support protrusion, 7b: discontinuous support protrusion,
8: Projection on the bottom, 9: Slit, 9a: Width direction slit, 9b: Length direction slit, 10: Small unit, 11: Large unit, 12: Pressing part, 13:
Pressing part surface, 14: Seed accommodating part, 15: Groove between pressing parts, 16: Handle, 17: Water passage groove.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Seeds on the surface of the pressing parts are inverted by inverting a lid body mainly consisting of one or more pressing parts provided with a seed accommodating part for storing one or more seeds for cultivation on the surface. A first step of sowing seeds in which the seeds are accommodated in the storage part, and a cultivation main body having a bottomed cultivation groove with a large number of water holes penetrating through the bottom and which can be fitted onto the pressing part is placed between the bottom surface of the cultivation groove and the surface of the pressing part. A method for cultivating plants, comprising: a second step of interposing a porous plate into the pressing part of the lid, and a third step of inverting the assembled whole. 2. The plant cultivation method according to claim 1, which uses a soft synthetic resin foam as the porous plate. 3. The method for cultivating plants according to claim 2, which comprises cutting slits of a certain size. 4. The plant cultivation method according to claim 1, which utilizes a bottomed hole having a slightly larger hole diameter than a single seed as a seed storage portion. 5. A lid body mainly consisting of one or more pressing parts having a seed accommodating part capable of storing one or more seeds for cultivation on its surface, a porous plate having substantially the same shape as the surface of the pressing parts, and a bottom part. A plant cultivation device comprising: a cultivation main body having a bottomed cultivation groove provided with a large number of penetrating water holes and capable of fitting with the pressing portion;