Patent ID: 7748164
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A plant cultivating apparatus used under micro gravity environment comprising: a chamber for housing soil consisting of grains and cultivating a plant; an air suction pipe arranged in the vicinity of a lower end portion within the chamber; air sucking means communicated and connected with the air suction pipe and used for sucking the air in said soil within the chamber out of the chamber to prevent said grains of said soil from flying away in said chamber; a liquid supplying pipe arranged above the air suction pipe and at a position wholly buried into the soil and used for dispersing liquid into the soil; liquid supplying means communicated and connected with the liquid supplying pipe and used for supplying liquid into the liquid supplying pipe; wherein size of said grains becomes larger from a surface layer of said soil toward a lower layer so that an air gap gets gradually larger from a surface layer toward a lower layer.