Methods to grow, deliver, and plant young trees in a removable tubular container

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A method of growing a tree ready to plant comprising:
providing a removable tubular container having an open top end and an open bottom end wherein the tubular container has a height of 1.5 foot to 3 feet, a diameter of 3 inches to 9 inches and a wall thickness of 15 mils to 80 mils; 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 a quarter inch to 8 inches from the top of the tubular container; maintaining the tubular container under growth conditions until the length of the tree root system extends into at least half of the height of soil in the tubular container and to any depth in the porous media upon which the tubular container stands, to provide a rooted tree; separating the bottom of the tubular container from the porous media; and trimming or not trimming any roots that protrude from the bottom of the tubular container flush with the bottom of the tubular container, to provide a tree ready to plant, rooted in soil contained in a tubular removable container.