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Large Longleaf Seedlings Survive Well

Planters who are planting longleaf pine by machine want large stock. They say that with large stock it is much easier to separate an individual seedling from the handful held during planting, and to place the seedling in the furrow. Since the first-year survival of large longleaf seedlings tends to be lower than that of smaller stock, a test was initiated in 1949 to determine how survival of machine-planted longleaf is affected by seedling size.


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Author(s): Robert M. Allen

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 14 (1953)