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Home Publications The Thin Green Line A Root-Bound Index for Container-Grown Pines

A Root-Bound Index for Container-Grown Pines

Root-bound seedlings have been a concern of nursery managers for more than four decades. When container-grown seedlings are root-bound (or pot-bound), survival, growth or stability might be reduced after outplanting (van Eerdin and Kinghorn 1978; Hulten 1982).


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Author(s): David B. South, R. G. Mitchell

Publication: The Thin Green Line