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A quick and easy way to measure container weights for irrigation scheduling

The practice of weighing containers to determine their water content is one of the oldest cultural practices in forest nurseries. In a survey of container nurseries for the Seedling Nutrition and Irrigation chapter of the Container Tree Nursery Manual (Landis and others 1989), using container weight was the most common technique to determine when to irrigate.


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Author(s): Thomas D. Landis, R. Kasten Dumroese, Jeremiah R. Pinto

Publication: Forest Nursery Notes - 2015 Summer - 2015 Summer Forest Nursery Notes Publications by Article