Nursery plants are often harvested, stored, and shipped bare-root for easier and more economical handling. Some species of woody and herbaceous perennials are less tolerant of postharvest handling than others. Desiccation stress during the handling of bare-root plants has been identified as a major problem contributing to poor survival and...
This is a fertilizer guide for commercial wholesale nurseries that produce shade and flowering trees for bareroot sales. Reviewed October 2010. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
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...
Benomyl and chlorothalonil were tested on 2-0 bareroot ponderosa pine seedlings as a means to reduce impact of Diplodia tip blight at the Fantasy Farms Nursery, Peck, Idaho. Infection levels were not adequate to assess effectiveness of the fungicides. However, techniques were developed which can be used to assess efficacy...
Needlecast caused by Meria laricis caused serious losses of 2-0 bareroot western larch during 1983 at the USDA Forest Service Nursery, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Cool, wet weather throughout the spring and summer of 1983 was ideal for disease buildup and spread. Control attempts with fungicides were largely unsuccessful because of...