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Summer Planting of Picea abies Container-grown Seedlings: Effects of Planting Date on Survival, Height Growth and Root Egress

Luoranen, J., Rikala, R., Konttinen, K., and Smolander, H. Forest Ecologyand Management 237:534-544. 2007.

To evaluate the possibilities of enlarging the planting period, seven field experiments were established in the course of 3 years, during which actively growing or short-day-treated seedlings were planted regularly from the beginning of July to the middle or end of September, depending on the experiment, and also the following spring.


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Author(s): Jaana Luoranen, Risto Rikala, K. Konttinen, Heikki Smolander

Section: Outplanting Performance

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