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Seedling Care And Planting Guidelines

Seedling Care and Planting Guidelines

Bare root and containerized tree seedlings must be handled carefully from the time they are harvested at the nursery until they are transplanted in the field. Equally important is planting seedlings correctly. This booklet will tell you how. Proper seedling handing is complicated by the variety of environmental conditions that may occur during this critical time between harvesting and transplanting. Monitor environmental conditions continuously. Adjust field operations as necessary to adhere to these guidelines. By following these standards, you enhance the likelihood of a successful planting. Reforestation costs are the landowner’s primary forestry investment during a timber stand’s life. Good seedling survival sets the stage for the next forest’s productivity and the landowner’s returns on investment. With more and more landowners planting advanced genetics seedlings such as MCP® following these guidelines is especially important.

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Planting Density: Less Can Be More!

Planting Density: Less CAN be more!

Reforestation Advisor Jason Cromer discusses the importance of Planting Density and how planting fewer trees-per-acre (TPA) with advanced genetics such as MCP® can actually deliver more revenue than OP control families.

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Loblolly Pine Checklots: Clarity or Confusion?

Making an informed decision about how seedling performance is measured is critical for a customer to make the right decision for their new tree forest.  ArborGen provides specific performance measurements and includes checklot information when reporting...

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Converting Agricultural Lands to Forestry Plantations

Subsoiling Before Planting Seedlings Prior to planting seedlings, an operation known as subsoiling, breaking up the ground before planting,  should be performed to shatter the compaction pan associated with past agricultural practices. Subsoiling prior to forestry...

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Proper Seedling Treatment for Planting

Watch an informative video from Paul Jeffreys, PhD, one of ArborGen's Reforestation Advisors. Paul discusses an all too common practice in the field that is actually something to avoid.

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Chemical Site Prep Has Multiple Benefits

Chemical Site Prep Has Multiple Benefits

Get the Right Site Prep Chemical Mix As the price of site prep chemicals has dropped, the natural inclination is to use more since they are cheaper. But more is not always better. Another common problem area is the use of multiple herbicides such as imazapyr,...

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