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Root Pruning Boosts Longleaf Survival

Root pruning is an effective way of reducing the high proportion of seedling failure common to longleaf pine plantations. The Alexandria Research Center of the Southern Forest Experiment Station started a series of studies in 1955 to test survival of planted longleaf pine seedlings that had been root-pruned in the nursery beds. The results are decisive. Root pruning does improve seedling survival-most markedly on adverse sites where survival is usually lowest.


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Author(s): Eugene Shoulders

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 36 (1959)