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Hardwood Plantations Establishment Using Container Grown Stock

Successful hardwood plantations have been the exception rather than the rule in American forestry (5). The use of bare rooted, usually 1-0, nursery stock has been the general practice, but the success achieved with this method for conifers has not been repeated satisfactorily with hardwoods. Severe root injury during transplanting, weed competition, grazing animals, and unfavorable exposure are among the primary agents that resulted in substantial early mortality and tree deformity. Modern tree farm management requires a successful technique or the establishment of hardwood species in stands or as inter-plantings (7). The use of container systems in conjunction with intensive early plantation care offers an opportunity to obtain successful regeneration of many hard wood species especially those with large seeds and taproot systems (2, 4). A major production benefit occurs with container planting since plants can be started in controlled environments before the regular growing season. Also, seedling propagation, as well as the field planting, can be extended further into the growing season than is so with conventional nursery-bare rooted planting.


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Author(s): Donald P. White, G. Schneider, Walter A. Lemmien

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 21, Number 2 (1970)

Volume: 21

Number: 2