METHOD FOR THE CULTIVATION OF A PLURALITY OF YOUNG PLANTS WHICH DIFFER IN TERMS OF SPECIES OR VARIETY TO FORM A GROUP OF YOUNG PLANTS WHICH CAN BE HANDLED AS A UNIT

摘要

A method for the cultivation of a plurality of young plants which differ in terms of species or variety to form a group of young plants which can be handled as a unit. The method includes providing a plurality of propagation pots, each containing a substrate, which allow roots that form in a propagation pot to grow out at the sides, loading at least one growing container with the plurality of propagation pots in such a manner that the propagation pots arranged in each growing container are in contact with one another in at least a portion of their lateral peripheral surface or are pressed against one another, introducing at least one cutting or seed into each propagation pot, and allowing roots to form in the propagation pots of each growing container until roots emerging from the sides of the propagation pots have formed a network of roots which binds the propagation pots in a growing container together as a cluster of propagation pots and holds them together.