Van Horlick’s Cultivator Planter “VHCP”, is the next generation of mechanized tree planting systems. This is a new and revolutionary planting machine that will provide key relief to a stressed forest industry. The VHCP will be a highly productive and fully mechanized tree planting machine with expected planting rate of nearly 10 times that of a single person. The VHCP can potentially be adapted to all forest companies involved with reforestation or afforestation with special attention to those using container grown tree seedlings..