US 11,957,086 B2
Cultivation systems and methods for improvement of plant bast fibers of plants from the family cannabaceae sensu stricto
Charles E. Ankner, West Palm Beach, FL (US)
Filed by Charles E. Ankner, West Palm Beach, FL (US)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/696,564.
Application 15/455,805 is a division of application No. 14/046,050, filed on Oct. 4, 2013, granted, now 9,622,426, issued on Apr. 18, 2017.
Application 17/696,564 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/907,286, filed on Jun. 21, 2020.
Application 16/907,286 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/628,689, filed on Jun. 21, 2017.
Application 15/628,689 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/455,805, filed on Mar. 10, 2017, granted, now 10,631,479, issued on Apr. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/162,215, filed on Mar. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0201953 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A01G 31/02 (2006.01); A01G 22/00 (2018.01)
CPC A01G 31/02 (2013.01) [A01G 22/00 (2018.02); Y02P 60/21 (2015.11)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of improving a bast fiber of a plant of and from the family Cannabaceae sensu stricto and species cannabis, the method comprising the steps of:
providing a plant of and from the family Cannabaceae sensu stricto and species cannabis having roots and a shoot;
providing a plant growing system configured for growing the plant having roots and a shoot, the plant growing system including a plant nutrient solution about and surrounding the plant roots having a temperature between thirty-five degrees and fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit and including air circulating about and surrounding the plant shoot having a temperature above seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit; thereby
providing and maintaining with the plant growing system a shoot-to-root temperature differential of at least twenty degrees Fahrenheit to the plant continuously and throughout the entirety of both the vegetative and flora growth phases of the plant;
the plant being harvested at a preferred and selected time during the flora growth phase of the plant; whereby
the provided at least twenty degrees Fahrenheit shoot-to-root temperature differential causes reduced nutrient translocation by and within the plant resulting in significant and desired reduction in the overall diameter of the plant bast fibers.