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Response of Virginia Pine Christmas Tree Plantation to Fertilization

Commercial production of Christmas trees has recently become a reality in Louisiana. Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana Mill.) is the most suitable Christmas tree for growers in the state. Because of the long growing season and abundant rainfall in Louisiana, the trees normally reach commercial size within 5 years. However, the shorter the time it takes to grow the trees to merchantable height the lower the production costs. One of the possibilities for reducing the length of time required to produce merchantable trees is to use fertilizer to increase tree growth. This paper gives the results of a fertilizer experiment designed to test height-growth response to various rates of fertilizer applied to a young Virginia pine plantation in southeastern Louisiana.


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Author(s): Shih-Chang Hu, Paul Y. Burns

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 30, Number 4 (1979)

Section: general

Volume: 30

Number: 4