Patent ID: 7082718

Claim:
A culture tray for young plants to take root comprising: (a) a plurality of parallel channels having respective sidewalls and at least one open end, said channels extending in a longitudinal direction and arranged at selected distances from each other for accommodating the plants; and (b) a plurality of independent bilaterally open-sided planting row skeletons, each skeleton comprising a bottom ledge having a plurality of partition webs connected by the ledge and being arranged in a respective channel so that said partition webs are arranged in the channel transversely to said longitudinal direction to define a plurality of planting areas, each planting area being limited by two sidewalls of the channel arranged right-angled to the planting area to define space boundaries for radicular planting bales during breeding of the plants, and wherein the planting row skeleton is formed in such a way that the planting row skeleton, after rooting of the plants, can laterally be pushed out of the respective channel so that the radicular planting bales rest on the ledge and are merely separated by partition webs and two radicular bale surfaces arranged transversely to the longitudinal direction are open.