The invention presents technology for elevated cultivation comprising an automatic paver and man-machine collaboration matrix control method in the field of agricultural equipment.

The substrate auto-paver for the table-top culture machine is mainly composed of a moving car, a matrix and a matrix-packing mechanism, the substrate material in the cabinet, an evenly paving mechanism that realizes double-sided blanking, and a remote control. The manual push-pull arm is employed to ensure that the return wheel touches the ground, using the matrix agencies to van automatically. The remote control is used to move the car into the elevated inter-row cultivation bed, and then, the double-sided blanking and evenly paving mechanism is automatically activated until the track wheel falls into the slot on the skeleton. By means of the bending type of chain transmission mechanism, the soilless culture substrates are automatically conveyed owing to the bilateral symmetry of blanking trough. A moving trolley drives the stirring device along the elevated bed. Thus, an evenly mixed matrix is obtained for cultivation in the tank. A rubber band, which is fixed on the back board of the stirring device, makes the matrix flat and level. The challenges of substrate packing, transportation, and mobile paving are being solved through collaboration between many institutions and by means of some artificial automatic intervention, which can help realize good adaptability and convenient handling.

A process for line production of plant growth medium pots or bags with a closed bottom end includes the steps of: i) continuously folding the free end of a continuous length of water and air permeable sheet material into a sheet material tube around and beyond a free end of a growth medium feeding tube; ii) forming a first sealing in the sheet material tube; iii) filling the sheet material tube with a measured amount of growth medium; iv) forming a second sealing in the sheet material tube; v) separating the part of the sheet material tube positioned downstream from the second sealing to form a first plant growth medium pot or bag with a closed end, repeating as needed to form a plurality of plant growth medium pots or bags.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a potting apparatus, which includes a drill that is repositionable relative to a pot-driving conveyor such that the potting apparatus may be placed in a first potting configuration or a second potting configuration. In the first potting configuration, the drill is in a first position relative to the pot-driving conveyor such that the apparatus can provide the requisite drilling functionality for potting plant life with smaller vertical profiles. In the second potting configuration, the drill is in a second position relative to the pot-driving conveyor to provide sufficient vertical clearance above the pot-driving conveyor for potting plant life with larger vertical profiles. The potting apparatus may further include a soil delivery system adapted to receive and dispense soil to the pot-driving conveyor and a drive system operatively connected to the pot-driving conveyor.

This multiplant bioactive composting pot of chosen shape, size, and material has a central composting chamber (1) with two or more outer plant chambers(2) separated by a partition (4) forming soil loaded plant and waste loaded composting parts. Each plant chamber has water drain hole (6) on the side, an inside a stem support insert (7) and is filled with soil. The compost chamber is pre-coated with composting microbes. The compost chamber has a lid (3)in rainy& snowy areas. The waste is composted in few days. The plant roots grow into partition holes (5) and suck up this nutrition for faster growth and more yield. Any excess water is drained out by hole (6) in the soil part. Series of these pots form an organic garbage garden to add nutrition and clean up air too.

A plunger device for making soil blocks. The plunger device is used to form soil blocks in a grid to facilitate seedling growth. The plunger is made of a configuration and material by casting or molding to compress soil consistently and evenly into blocks for seeding. The plunger device includes a plurality of plungers joined together that align with the rows of cells within the grid. The benefit of cast or molded plungers of the present invention is their uniform shape that will not bend of deform as prior sheet metal plungers potentially can.

The machine, means for controlling the compaction of a substrate and product obtained relates to a machine that controls the compaction of a substrate, with improvements in the production process that are automated and without losses in the production of small paper tubes or any type of non-woven tissue for use in propagating seedlings and plants.

A system for packaging growth medium pots onto propagation trays is provided. The system includes an apparatus adapted for producing a length of growth medium cut into growth medium pots of suitable size; and a distributor apparatus adapted for positioning growth medium pots into a propagation tray or the like. The distributor apparatus comprises a) a first apparatus, b) a conveyor unit, and c) a second apparatus. The first apparatus is configured for positioning growth medium pots onto said conveyor unit. The conveyor unit comprises an endless conveyor belt adapted for transporting the growth medium pots toward the second apparatus. The second apparatus is configured for moving said growth medium pots positioned on the said conveyor belt into a propagation tray or the like.

An automatic rock wool block filling apparatus is provided. The automatic filling apparatus includes a supporting mechanism, a feeding mechanism, an orientation adjusting mechanism, a pressing mechanism and a seedling raising tray moving mechanism. A rock wool block can be fed into the orientation adjusting mechanism through the feeding mechanism. The rock wool block can fall onto the seedling raising tray in a forward state that a concave arc surface faces upwards and a flat surface faces downwards through the orientation adjusting mechanism. The rock wool block falling onto the seedling raising tray can be pressed into a hole to be filled through the pressing mechanism. The hole to be filled in the seedling raising tray can be moved to a target position through the seedling raising tray moving mechanism. Thus, the feeding, orientation adjusting and pressing operations of the rock wool block are completed.

A large plant bagging and planting system that is comprised of a hopper surge bin, a first and second workstation. The workstations are connected at or near the center between them, and each respective workstation has a set of walls, or a circular wall, that tapers inward from a wider top opening to a smaller bottom opening, and there is at least one gate located below the walls or circular wall. There is also at least one gate located below each respective workstation. There is also at least one control arm configured to manipulate and hold a large plant into position within a grow bag while potting media that has been placed in the hopper surge bin, is released from at least one workstation via the at least one gate, in am amount appropriate to fill the grow bad to desired depth.

An automatic rock wool block filling apparatus is provided. The automatic filling apparatus includes a supporting mechanism, a feeding mechanism, an orientation adjusting mechanism, a pressing mechanism and a seedling raising tray moving mechanism. A rock wool block can be fed into the orientation adjusting mechanism through the feeding mechanism. The rock wool block can fall onto the seedling raising tray in a forward state that a concave arc surface faces upwards and a flat surface faces downwards through the orientation adjusting mechanism. The rock wool block falling onto the seedling raising tray can be pressed into a hole to be filled through the pressing mechanism. The hole to be filled in the seedling raising tray can be moved to a target position through the seedling raising tray moving mechanism. Thus, the feeding, orientation adjusting and pressing operations of the rock wool block are completed.