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A hydroponic culture procedure and device which provides for attachment of plant roots and further provides channel units for fertilizer liquid. In the device, successively hanged channel units are established on parallel supports. An upper sheet has holes for the implantation of respective plants.

A hydroponic culture procedure and device which provides for attachment of plant roots and further provides channel units for fertilizer liquid. In the device, successively hanged channel units are established on parallel supports. An upper sheet has holes for the implantation of respective plants. A lower sheet, devoid of holes, acts as a sump. Intermediate sheets are provided between the upper and lower sheets, and have the same number of holes as the upper sheet, although longitudinally offset. The channel units are fed by a tube that supplies water and nutrients, and which also provides temperature control. From this tube emerges, above the upper sheet, a micro-tube or similar device for feeding the water to individual plants. The liquid descends in the form of a cascade along the channel units and through the holes down to the lower channel unit, and in turn directs the plant roots along the same path of the nutrients.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. Procedure for hydroponic culture, characterized by hanging, from a pair of slanting parallel supports, a multiple channel unit comprising superimposed sheets having different widths, which form dihedrons having different angles but with a common mouth, an upper sheet be

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. Procedure for hydroponic culture, characterized by hanging, from a pair of slanting parallel supports, a multiple channel unit comprising superimposed sheets having different widths, which form dihedrons having different angles but with a common mouth, an upper sheet being provided, along its median line, with a plurality of evenly distributed holes, which correspond to a spacing foreseen for plants to be grown, at lest one intermediate sheet being provided with a number of holes identical to that of the upper sheet although longitudinally offset in a staggered manner, which are oriented in the same direction as the slanting of the overall multiple channel unit, and a lower sheet being devoid of holes, in order to establish, along said channel unit, multiple cascading paths for fertilizer liquid as well as a staggered path for plant roots through the different sheets, such that the sheets furthermore constitute the physical rooting support for the plants.