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Furrow Planting American Sycamore Cuttings

Planting hardwood cuttings can offer several advantages over planting seedlings. Laying cuttings of relatively uniform diameter and length in a furrow poses fewer problems to machine planting than setting seedlings, especially since one axiom of successful hardwood plantation establishment seems to be: The larger the seedlings, the better. Cuttings can be custom grown to desired sizes, and clonal lines can be multiplied in short order leading to faster field testing and use of genetically improved stock. Furthermore, if two or more nodes are present on a cutting, the sprouts arising from each node can give rise to several sprouts or sprout clumps for each cutting planted. This is useful when trees are to be grown at close spacing, like those used in the short rotation hardwood concept (1, 5). Many techniques for mass production of hardwood cuttings are already available from studies with cottonwood (3).


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Author(s): Klaus Steinbeck, Robert G. McAlpine

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 24, Number 4 (1973)

Volume: 24

Number: 4