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Seedling Ecophysiology: Five Questions To Explore in the Nursery for Optimizing Subsequent Field Success

This paper is based on questions from an audience participation discussion with the author S. Grossnickle during the Joint Annual Meeting of the Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia and the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association (Sidney, BC, September 30-October 2, 2019). The five question topics presented herein were, by consensus, the most discussed questions presented by the audience of nursery practitioners and foresters. Topics explored in this paper relate to nursery hardening practices, irrigation management to promote stress resistance, cultural strategies to promote vigorous root growth, storage practices for hot-lifted seedlings, and storage length for overwinter stored seedlings. The following answers to these specific topics are the authors’ combined views on these nursery cultural practices.


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Author(s): Steven C. Grossnickle, Steven B. Kiiskila, Diane L. Haase

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 63, Number 2 (2020)

Volume: 63

Number: 2