Experiment on mechanical property of seedling pot for automatic transplanter

Mechanical properties of bowls for cucumber plug seedlings are vital to design the picking seedling machinery of plug seedlings automatic transplanter. With cucumber as the object of plug seedling, plug seedlings were cultivated in the Venlo green house using the regular cubic tapered trays and organic soil of Zhenjiang's Peilei. When mechanical properties of bowls for cucumber plug seedlings were tested, age of plug seedling was 28 days, two cotyledons and the first central leaf were on the seedlings, and the moisture of bowls was from 54.21% to 60.47%. Testing results showed that relations between capacity of resistance for compression and deformation were non-linear. The resistance capacity for compression with deformation increased slowly at first and increased significantly at last. Research show creep degree of different compression forces for plug seedlings is relatively smaller, which has no significant impact on fast clamping the bowl, and in other words the bowl is clamped it will not fall off becau