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August Field Planting of June Stuck Softwood Cuttings

Pickerill, J. and Banas, K. International Plant Propagators' Society, combined proceedings 2006, 56:433. 2007.

At Mariani Nursery most of our summer softwood propagation is rooted in sand beds in greenhouses. We also have a greenhouse with a concrete floor with hot water tubes embedded in the concrete. This house was built specifically for winter evergreen propagation. In an effort to increase our softwood production without building another greenhouse and also to make use of the evergreen house during the summer months we developed a new production method, which I will share here.


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Author(s): J. Pickerill, K. Banas

Section: Vegetative Propagation and Tissue Culture