| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to a method and a device de- signed to arrange and pack plants (13) and their respective root lumps (14), which plants have grown in a seedling unit (12) containing a large number of plants and soil lumps, arranged in a plurality of rows and lines adjacent each oth- er in a uniform, rectilinear check pattern, some of the soil lumps possibly missing a plant or containing an only badly developed plant due to a failed seed germination, a reduced growth or due to other circumstances, which empty soil lumps and soil lumps with not healthy plants respec- tively axe removed from the healthy plants, subsequent to which the packed healthy plants are placed in transport con- tainers. The healthy plants are gripped by gripping elements (20) and are placed with the same pattern as they had in the seedling unit, i.e. including possible gaps for removed empty soil lumps or not healthy plants, in channels (45) with a separate channel for each row. Subsequently the plants are conveyed in the channels from an input end to- wards an output end. The gaps are eliminated in said chan- nels not later than in said output end, subsequent to which a certain number of plants, brought together in this way, corresponding to a certain length of the channels in the output end, are removed from the channels and placed in the transport container.
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