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Control of Damping-off at Boscobel State Nursery in Wisconsin

At the Boscobel State Nursery, started in 1951, our original conifer seeding was kept at a minimum, as we anticipated poor growth until the nursery area could be inoculated with the important root-producing mycorrhizal fungi. The seed was fall sown, without seed treatment. The species were of white and Norway pine and white and Norway spruce. The spring germination of all species was fair; however, early damping-off soon took its toll of better than 50 percent of the germinated seedlings. Those that came through were then attacked by late damping-off, in June and early July. So few plants were left by late summer that it did not pay to maintain the area.


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Author(s): Kenneth F. Derr

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 21 (1955)