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Method and means for acclimatizing seedlings for outdoor life

A light-emitting device and technology for saplings, applied in gardening methods, lighting devices, botany equipment and methods, etc., can solve the problems of high cost and increase of seedling manufacturers, and achieve the effects of improving economy, increasing proportion, and improving growth cycle

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-11-27
VALOYA
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This is due to the fact that transporting the plants in the shade and removing them from the shade also adds an additional costly period of work for the seedling producer

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[0045] figure 1 A method of treating plants against transplant shock is shown as flow diagram 10 . Typically, the plants are saplings and are placed indoors in the early stages of their life. Planting events are of particular importance for saplings, as any damage during this stage can mean years of delayed or inhibited growth of the sapling, or outright early death, causing significant economic loss to the grower. The method of the invention can in principle be applied to all saplings, but is particularly suitable for the treatment of any of the following species against transplant shock: oak, locust, pine, birch, maple, redwood, redwood, eucalyptus, bamboo, palm , spruce, aspen, alder, linden, cypress and / or any other tree species grown indoors in stage 100. In stage 110, the sapling is exposed indoors to artificial UV light before living outdoors. In stage 110 at least part of the incident UV light is generated by light emitting diodes (LEDs). In one embodiment, said ar...

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The invention relates to lighting method and devices that can be used to treat a seedling (210, 310) in a growth chamber (360) or greenhouse (200) prior to the introduction of the seedling to outdoors. One aspect of the invention is a light (220, 320, 321) by which the plants can be prepared for the outdoors, by giving them certain wavelengths of light they do not currently receive from the light in the greenhouse or growth chambers. The light of the invention can be applied in smaller doses during the major part of nursing of the seedlings or as a "sun-shock" period in the end of the indoors nursing period. By giving the seedlings light from the invention, they are prepared to Sun light and do not need to spend a few weeks under the sunshade curtains. The invention thus shortens the growth cycle of tree seedlings, enhances the proportion of viable seedlings and eliminates one work phase in the growth process, thus improving the economics of seedling cultivation.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to methods and devices for adapting seedlings to outdoor life. More specifically, the present invention relates to lighting methods and apparatus that can be used to treat seedlings in a growth chamber or greenhouse prior to directing the seedlings outdoors. Background of the invention [0002] Industrially produced saplings are usually grown in growth boxes or greenhouses during the early stages of their life. According to the prior art, when the seedlings reach a certain age or size, they are then planted outdoors. Moving outside can be a very shocking experience for plants. Among other effects, the "transplantation shock" to plants caused by moving outside comes from the difference in light spectrum between the inside (greenhouse or laboratory growth chamber conditions) and the outside. To avoid this, it is common to keep plants under shade shades for several weeks so that direct exposure to sunlight is limited. Thi...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A01G7/04A01G7/06H01L33/08H05B44/00
CPCA01G17/005A01H4/008A01H3/02H05B33/0869H05B33/086A01G7/045H05B45/22H05B45/20Y02P60/14A01C1/00
Inventor 拉尔斯·艾卡拉伊科卡·基维马基
Owner VALOYA
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