Pyramidal Nursery Pot

摘要

A Pyramidal shaped nursery pot that provides improvement in pot stability against wind blow over, improves root development through air root pruning and grooves to guide the roots downward, and reduces weeding effort, without negatively impacting space utilization and water consumption. The pot is made of a semi-rigid, preferably biodegradable material, is delivered flat, and has a self closing mechanism to keep the sides joined when it is assembled. The pot has a plurality of triangular apertures cut on the vertical sides that fold outwards as a flange, with the objective of the opening created by these to facilitate drainage of excess liquid from the pot and the passage of air to the growing media to enhance root development through air-pruning, and the flange formed and folded outwards with an angle towards the inside of the pot to serve as a water capture mechanism when aerial irrigation occurs. The square bottom of the pot may be raised from the ground and has drainage holes, with the objective of facilitating drainage of excess liquid from the pot, and allowing air root pruning to avoid bottom roots from anchoring to the ground.

主权项

1) A nursery pot shaped as a pyramid that will contain a growing media and a plant or plants to be grown in such media, comprising of flat material that when folded forms the shape of the pyramid and has self-closing mechanism to join the sides and keep them together. Such closing mechanism can be reopened at the time of plant transplant and allows the pot to be reused if so desired.