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Nursery Practices in Sweden

This paper presents containerized forest nursery practices in Sweden. Containerized stock was introduced some 30 years ago in Swedish forestry. Since then, the use of this stock has been successively increased at the expense of bare-root stock. Last year, approximately 400 million containerized and 30 million bare-root seedlings were produced in Sweden. In the paper, the development of container design and the most common containerized systems used today will be presented. Container design has been focused on different principles for directing root growth during the production phase. The first systems introduced in the early 1970s implied stability problems for pine seedlings when planted in cold and dense soils. Since then a new generation of container systems have been developed with a design that prevents root deformations.


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Author(s): Anders Mattsson

Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 2000

Event: Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association Conference
2000 - Kona, HI