Patent ID: 7866087

Claim:
Method for repotting plants, wherein a rootball provided with a plant is moved from a first rootball container to a second rootball container using a planting head, the planting head has a planting head body with legs said legs near the proximal ends thereof being connected to the planting head body , and near the distal ends thereof are provided with pins which may be in a first retracted position and in a second extended position, wherein in a first step of gripping the rootball, the planting head is brought above the rootball surface in a relative manner, such that at least 1 of the legs of the planting head is positioned outside the rootball, and the distal ends of the legs are situated near the highest of the top edge of the rootball container and the rootball surface; in a second step of gripping the rootball, the distance of the distal ends of the legs to the central axis of the planting head is reduced such that the legs of the planting head point towards the rootball and at a distance of both the upper circumferential edge of the rootball as well as the central axis of the rootball will intersect the rootball surface; in a third step of gripping the rootball, the pins are brought from the first retracted position to the second extended position as a result of which the pins extend into the rootball; in a fourth step of gripping the rootball the distal ends of the legs are brought closer together; after which the rootball is taken out of the first rootball container and deposited into the second rootball container.