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Container Type and Volume Influences Adventitious Rooting and Subsequent Field Growth of Stem Cuttings of Loblolly Pine

LeBude, A. V., Goldfarb, B., Blazich, F. A., Wright, J. A., Cazell, B., Wise, F. C., and Frampton, J. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 30 (3):123-131. 2006.

To evaluate differences between containers, a series of two experiments were conducted comparing rooting in commercially available Jiffy forestry peat pellets of various sizes to a rigid plastic container system considered to represent a commercially obtainable optimum third experiment was conducted to compare the effect of three volumes of Ray Leach Containers on rooting percentage and root system quality.


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Author(s): Anthony V. LeBude

Section: Vegetative Propagation and Tissue Culture