PLANT GROWING DEVICE Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: device for full-cycle hydroponic plant growing or planting material growing outdoors or in a hothouse has a sloping polymer-lined basement, containers for substrate formed by vertical and horizontal polymer band partitions positioned on the basement along its slope, and covered channels for nutritive solution located between the containers. The channels are U-shaped containers arranged alternately bottom-up and bottom-down and running parallel with each other. A piece of wire keeps the channels within the boundaries of the vertical and horizontal partitions, and they are open to each other through holes in the lower part of the vertical partitions. The lower support for wire has openings in its bottom part. The openings are intended for discharge of nutritive solution into a drain receptacle. EFFECT: lower metal consumption; lower labor consumption. 2 cl, 2 dwg