Root trainer
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root-trainer-176-1055077
title:
Root trainer
text:
Many pot designs train the roots. One example is a truncated plastic cone in which a seedling is planted. There is a drainage hole at the bottom and the main tap root tends to grow towards this. What this achieves is to encourage the roots to grow a denser system of root hairs. How it does this is to have the pots designed so as to air prune the roots. The advantage is when the plant is planted into its home environment it has a stronger root base to start with. When polythene bags are used inst
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Aid to the cultivation of young plants and trees
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_trainer
date created:
2010-09-22T09:34:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T10:13:22Z
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