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Abstract

In a tape or packaged tape provided along the length thereof with pockets disposed transversely to the tape and with a desired spacing, said pockets are containing viable plant material such as seeds, other kinds of sproutable germs, cuttings, meristems, or tissure culture fixed thereto and intended for development into seedlings or bedding plants within the packaged tape before being transplanted as a continuous tape. The pockets comprise two wall-forming layers being fixed to each other at intervals and being adapted to enable the necessary supply and regulation of air and water for the development of the plant material inside the tape without the coexistence of any further growth medium thereabout. One of the layers prevents the roots of the plants from penetrating through said layer, and one of the layers is adapted to allow the roots to penetrate into or adhere to said layer, thereby securing the plants inside the pockets. The pockets are open at the top and bottom thereof. The tape including the pockets and the viable plant material is quite flat and bendable, windable spirally and foldable flat upon itself into a package. The tensile strength of the tape is at least one Newton. In producing the tape, the viable plant material is inserted between the two wall-forming layers forming the tape and the pockets and fixed thereto. The two layers are fixed to each other about the plant material, and the tape is wound or folded upon itself into a package of tape. In this manner there is constructed a continuous tape allowing the rational and inexpensive production of plants of a uniform, high quality, said tape in addition being suited for a direct, mechanical transplantation on the growing habitat.

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