An indoor gardening appliance includes a liner defining a grow chamber and a grow module rotatably mounted within the grow chamber for receiving a plurality of plant pods. A moisture management system includes an evaporator plenum in fluid communication with the grow chamber and a fan assembly that recirculates air from the respective grow chambers and/or the ambient environment through an evaporator positioned within the evaporator plenum. In this manner, chamber humidity may be regulated while water is extracted from the air which may be used by a hydration system to hydrate plants.

A stackable raising seedling device has a device body and a floating planting board. The device body has raising seeding hole parts disposed at intervals and holes disposed intervals. The raising seeding hole pans and the holes are staggered in parallel and with each other along a first direction, the raising seeding hole part and the holes are staggered in parallel with each other along a second direction, and the holes of the first direction and the raising seeding hole parts of the second direction are adjacently arranged. The raising seeding hole pan can receive a culture medium layer, the culture medium layer has an agar gel, and the agar gel is composed of a plant growth nutrient, agar powder and water. The present disclosure improves the overall seed germination rate and the quality of planted crops when massively planting the planted crops.

A tray for a horticultural container. The tray includes a plurality of walls forming an outer perimeter and a plurality of openings encompassed within the perimeter, each opening configured to accept a horticultural container. Each opening includes at least one tab configured to engage a portion of the horticultural container such that the horticultural container is held in place within one of the plurality of openings. The tray is configured to have a low profile to save space, save manufacturing materials, and to improve stacking capabilities. The tray can include a plurality of secondary openings to mitigate soil waste in a filling procedure.

A method for cultivating a plant, especially an orchid, is provided. The method involves a seedling at least partly surrounded by a substrate being introduced into a plant pot, the plant pot being introduced into one of multiple cells of a tray and the plant pot being immobilized in the cell, wherein the plant pot is introduced into the cell of the tray until a cell wall which is impenetrable for roots and especially unbreached towers above the plant pot.

A growing system and/or plant support structure may include one or more feet supporting at least one or more uprights, on which a plurality of plants and/or grow boards for growing plants may be positioned. A nutrient delivery system may be positioned between opposing uprights to provide nutrient supply to a root zone of plants, which nutrient delivery system may be positioned adjacent each opposing upright in an interior chamber of the plant support structure. A light system may be positioned between two adjacent plant support structures such that it simultaneously provides light to the exterior surface of the two plant support structures. A collapsible light may be positioned adjacent plants and plant support structures for improved access to the plants or plant support structures while allowing variable and controllable light distribution beneficial to control of adjacent plants and plant structures.

A method is proposed for remotely growing plants in a planting zone that is divided into multiple planting areas. Via an electronic device that communicates with a remote automated planting sub-system in the planting zone, a user may select desired planting area(s) and desired type(s) of plant precursors on the electronic device, and remotely cause the remote automated planting sub-system to plant the selected type(s) of plant precursors into the selected planting area(s).

A customizable hydroponic growth system comprises a housing having a reservoir structure which is subdivided into a plurality of separate cells within each of which a different plant is receivable and hydroponically growable; and a cover covering the reservoir structure which is configured with a plurality of individually removable plant retainer sections, arranged such that each of said plant retainer sections is aligned with a corresponding one of said cells, wherein a first plant is removable from a first cell of the reservoir structure together with the plant retainer section with which is it retained while roots of the first plant are ensured of not being entangled with the roots of a second plant received in second cell of the reservoir structure which is adjacent to the first cell.

A system for the fertigation of a plant vessel and method of use for the same is disclosed. The system comprises a grow module containing a plurality of growing trays additionally containing plants, and/or shoots of plants in various stages of development. The growing trays are individually extracted from the grow module via a tray movement system and tray elevator controlled by a control system and precisely placed in a fertigation system, wherein they are aligned over and lowered onto an at least one nozzle which penetrate the plant vessels containing the plants and fertigate them with a combination of water, nutrients, and/or pressurized air. The individual growing tray is then replaced in the grow module and the process is repeated for all growing trays and plant vessels in the grow module.

The present invention relates to a plant cultivation apparatus comprising: a cabinet having a cultivation space; cultivation shelves which can be inserted into or withdrawn from the cabinet, and on which plants to be cultivated are loaded; drain ports opened to drain water supplied to the cultivation shelves; an opening/closing member for opening/closing the drain port; and a driving device which is provided in the cultivation space, and which selectively comes in contact with the opening/closing member to operate the opening/closing member, wherein the driving device can include: a driving motor; a pinion, which is rotated by means of the driving motor and has a pinion gear; a rod which has a rack gear coupled to the pinion gear, and which vertically moves by means of the pinion to open/close the opening/closing member; and a case for forming the exterior thereof and guiding the movement of the rod.

An indoor gardening appliance includes a liner defining a grow chamber and a grow module rotatably mounted within the grow chamber for receiving a plurality of plant pods. A moisture management system includes an evaporator plenum in fluid communication with the grow chamber and a fan assembly that recirculates air from the respective grow chambers and/or the ambient environment through an evaporator positioned within the evaporator plenum. In this manner, chamber humidity may be regulated while water is extracted from the air which may be used by a hydration system to hydrate plants.