Patent ID: 7069693

Claim:
A method of cultivating plants comprising the steps of: a. determining at least one externally manifested punch-transplant-specific transplant-plant-size-excluded morphological growth criterion appropriate to a given plant species and a given transplant modality and involving at least one yield sensitive criterion; b. placing growth media and a plurality of propagules for said plant species in a first matrix of area extravagant propagule transplant containers adapted to achieve an enhanced production yield which is statistically increased over a traditional transplant production yield for said species; c. interconnecting said first matrix of propagule transplant containers by a formable web; d. nurturing an initial growth of said propagules for said plant species in said first matrix of propagule transplant containers to create a first growth matrix of juvenile plantlets; e. establishing a matrix of individual transplant cohesive intermingled plant-media masses from a portion of said growth media and each of said juvenile plantlets; f. affirmatively establishing said at least one externally manifested punch-transplant-specific transplant-plant-size-excluded morphological growth criterion for a substantial portion of said plurality of juvenile plantlets while situated in said first matrix of propagule transplant containers; g. extruding a substantial portion of an individual transplant cohesive intermingled plant-media mass from a propagule transplant container at a time when said punch-transplant-specific transplant-plant-size-excluded morphological growth criterion is substantially established; h. inserting at least one individual transplant cohesive intermingled plant-media mass in an adolescent plant container immediately after extruding a substantial portion of an individual transplant cohesive intermingled plant-media mass from said propagule transplant container; i. secondarily growing said juvenile plantlet in said adolescent plant container to create an adolescent plant; and j. achieving an enhanced production yield which is statistically increased over a traditional transplant production yield for said species.