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Using Capsaicin as a Less Toxic Insecticide
H. Endo and M. Tomita
Using Chlorine to Prevent Nursery Disease
One of the basic tenets of Integrated Pest Management(IPM) is to minimize the use of pesticides. We all realize that some pesticides are necessary to raise a ...
Using Compost for Container Production of Ornamental Wetland and Flatwood Species Native to Florida
This study suggests that compost may serve as a viable alternative substrate for peat in the production of ornamental wetland and flatwood species native to ...
Sandra B. Wilson and Peter J. Stofella
© Using composts for healthy plants and high productivity
Using cost accounting in nursery management
Controlling costs is a vital management function. As nursery managers we play a major role in controlling the cost of reforesting every hectare of cutover that ...
A. Wynia
Using dephenamid herbicide for seedbed weed control cuts hand-weeding labor 75 percent
In 1968, after hearing of successes in seedbed weed control using diphenamid herbicide at the Forest Service Nursery at Carbondale, Colorado. we initiated a ...
Stephen E. McDonald, John A. Isaacson and Beatrice E. Fisher
Using Diverse Plant Species to Maintain Forest Health
Planting of disease resistant species is advocated for the management of forest diseases and insect pests. Laminated root rot in the Pacific Northwest and ...
Donald Goheen and Susan Frankel
Using Electrolyte Leakage for Evaluating Hardwood Seedling Cold Hardiness
This paper describes the use of electrolyte leakage (EL) from stem tissue as a potential method for assessing cold hardiness of hardwood seedlings. The EL ...
Barrett C. Wilson and Douglass F. Jacobs
Using Electrolyte Leakage Tests To Determine Lifting Windows And Detect Tissue Damage
Physiological testing is rapidly coming into use as a means to determine the condition of nursery stock and predict how it will respond to treatment or use. ...
Richard W. Tinus
Using Essential Oils to Control Moss and Liverwort in Containers
Liverwort and moss are economically significant weeds across a range of US container production sites, including forest seedling greenhouse culture in the ...
Nabil Khadduri
Using flotation in ethanol to separate filled and empty seeds of Pinus nigra ssp. pallasiana
Using Frost Hardiness as an Indicator of Seedling Condition
Knowing the frost hardiness of conifer seedlings is of benefit to nursery managers and seedling users even if the potential for actual frost damage is not of ...
Jay R. Faulconer
Using GA4/7 to Induce Flowering in Pinus ponderosa Seed Orchards
Marc L. Rust
Using Geographic Information Systems in a Nursery
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computer based systems which combine maps (spatial data) with information that describes features found on those maps ...
Stephen C. Westin
Using Germination Cloths in Container and Bareroot Nurseries
J. L. Schmal, P. O. Woolery, John P. Sloan and Clark D. Fleege
© Using historic bushel weights to estimate seed quality
Using History Plots to Improve Seed Use Efficiency and Fine-Tune Cultural Practices
Thomas D. Landis
© Using hydrogel and clay to improve the water status of seedlings for dryland restoration
© Using hydrogel filled, embedded tubes to sustain grass transplants for arid land restoration
Using Leachate Conductivity of Bulked Samples to Estimate Seed Quality
Conductivity measurements of the leachate of bulked samples with a single-probe instrument offer a simple, completely objective, non-destructive, and ...
Franklin T. Bonner
Using Leaf Temperature as a Nondestructive Procedure to Detect Root Rot Stress in Geranium
J. C. Locke, J. M. Frantz and M. Omer
Using Micronutrient Fertilizers in Forest Nurseries For Invigorating Stunted Stock
The influence of trace or minor elements on tree seedlings often is not obvious. Until the supply of these micronutrients-including iron, manganese, boron, ...
J. R. Love and Jaya G. Iyer
Using Municipal Organic Wastes at Lincoln-Oakes Nurseries
Discusses the use of municipal organic waste in the forms of leaves, thatch, and grass clippings which are stockpiled and spread onto seedling production ...
Greg Morgenson
© Using mushroom farm and anaerobic digestion wastewaters as supplemental fertilizer sources for growing container nursery stock in a closed system. Summer 2008
© Using nomograms for evaluating plant mor­phological and physiological data
Using Organic Fertilizers in Forest and Native Plant Nurseries
Since World War II, synthetic fertilizers have been used almost exclusively to grow forest and native plant nursery crops because they are quickly soluble and ...
R. Kasten Dumroese and Thomas D. Landis
Using Organic Fertilizers in Forest and Native Plant Nurseries
Using Plant Growth Regulators on Red Alder and Douglas-Fir Plugs
Treatments of 50 ppm, 50 ppm (two applications), 100 ppm, and 200 ppm and also 5 and 10 ppm drench applications of the plant growth regulator (PGR) Bonzi® ...
Nabil Khadduri
Using Polymer-coated Controlled-release Fertilizers in the Nursery and After Outplanting
R. Kasten Dumroese and Thomas D. Landis
Using preemergence herbicides in containerized rootstock during grafting