Transplant shock was induced by applying a range of soil water contents to unstored and cold-stored two-yearold (2+0) bareroot Douglas-fir seedlings graded by root volume. Moisture stress had the greatest influence on
morphological characteristics commonly associated with transplant shock. Terminal growth, lateral growth, stem diameter growth, and needle length increased...
Douglas-fir seedlings were inoculated with different species of
ectomycorrhizae-forming fungi in order to test the concept that
ectomycorrhizae enhance the drought tolerance of seedlings and to
investigate the mechanisms responsible for this effect.
Seedlings were transplanted at age 6 to 8 weeks into pots
containing pasteurized loam soil and inoculated...
Tap-root wounds frequently occur on seedlings during lifting in
forest tree nurseries. Data are needed to clarify guidelines for
culling wounded seedlings. Two-year-old bareroot Douglas-fir
(Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) seedlings were wounded by hand on
the tap-root to lengths of either 3/8, 1, or 3 inches. Wounded
seedlings were used...
Several hundred two year old Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga
menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) seedlings were planted in an enclosure
designed to permit control of soil moisture. The seedlings came
from five seed sources in southern Oregon and one seed source in
northwestern Oregon. Mortality terminal and lateral budburst,
and soil moisture were recorded...
In study 111, four Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) stocktypes (1-0, 2-0 standard nursery run and low density bareroot seedlings, and 1 year old container stock) were outplanted in a randomized
incomplete block design to an old field in the Willamette Valley of Oregon in a factorial experiment t4 stocktypes...
This study compared three nursery handling processes from the time just before lifting to the time seedlings are placed in cold storage after grading, sorting, and packing at the nursery. The seedlings handled in these different ways were compared first in terms of the temperature and plant moisture stresses they...