RNGR.net is sponsored by the USDA Forest Service and Southern Regional Extension Forestry and is a colloborative effort between these two agencies.

U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA Forest Service Southern Regional Extension Forestry Southern Regional Extension Forestry

Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Home → Publications → National Nursery Proceedings → 1981 → Box-Pruning the Roots of Container-Grown Tree Seedlings

Box-Pruning the Roots of Container-Grown Tree Seedlings

The use of planting stock with a box-pruned root system can reduce or prevent mechanical instability in plantations of susceptible pine species. It can also increase early height growth. This paper describes both chemical and mechanical root pruning techniques for the production of container stock with a box-pruned root.


Download this file:

PDF document Download this file — PDF document, 210Kb

Details

Author(s): A. N. Burdett

Event: Proceedings of the Canadian Containerized Tree Seedling Symposium
1981 - Toronto, Ontario