Abstract: A device for both shipping and starting the growth of plant seeds. Two container portions are mutually engageable to form a receptacle for the transportion of plant seeds and cylindrical disks of plant growth mattter. The container portions are substantially identical and interchangeable as the repository and cover member of the receptacle. Each container portion has three compartments formed by three partitions rising orthogonally from the base of the container and abutting equiangularly about the center of the base. A pair of ribs is disposed in each compartment between adjacent abutting partitions, and a vertical projection extends upward from the side of the container within each compartment generally along a line bisecting the angle formed by adjacent abutting partitions. Preferably, an upright member is attached to the end of each of the partitions, rising from the base of the container to a height slightly less than that of the upper edge of the container.