Effect of container type and seedling size on survival and early height growth of Pinus palustris seedlings in Alabama, U.S.A.

Prediction of Nutrient Leaching from Culture of Containerized Buddhist Pine and Japanese Maple Seedlings Exposed to Extended Photoperiod

“…Although gross amount of fertilizers used for forest production of tree stocks may not be comparable as for agricultural and horticultural crops, however, the risk arisen from containerized tree stock culture cannot be overlooked (Juntunen and Rikala, 2001;Juntunen et al, 2002Juntunen et al, , 2003Dobrahner et al, 2007;GomezRey et al, 2008). Thus, nursery bare-root stocks occupies a large proportion of tree seedling productions from the whole tree seedling culture system, wherein the proportion of containerized stocks, however is lower but growing dramatically at a considerable speed all over the world including Norway, Sweden, Finland, Canada (Juntunen et al, 2002), USA (South et al, 2005;Pinto et al, 2011), and China (Xu et al, 2013).…”

“…Additionally, production of large tree stock using large-volume containers has been proven to be highly efficient with CRF (Murray et al, 1996;South et al, 2005;Dumroese et al, 2011). However, effects of CRF on seedling performance seemed to be derived mainly from nutrient availability, hence response of seedling growth replies on the interaction of tree species and CRF but not on single impact from CRF (Oliet et al, 2004;Klooster et al, 2012).…”

“…Studies from scientific literature indicated that performance of large tree stock was tested on species mainly used for afforestation, such as birch (Aphalo and Rikala, 2003), pine (Sutherland and Day, 1988;South et al, 2005;Pinto et al, 2011), Plinia spp. (Danner et al, 2007), eucalyptus (Close et al, 2010), and koa .…”

“…(Danner et al, 2007), eucalyptus (Close et al, 2010), and koa . The main concerns from these studies are generated about the cost during seedling culture (Bowden, 1993), performance of transplanted stocks (Aphalo and Rikala, 2003;South et al, 2005;Pinto et al, 2011), and the benefit for the whole silvi-cultural system from seed germination to transplanted seedling establishment (Sutherland and Day, 1988;Close et al, 2010). For slowly growing tree species, quite little evidence can be found for the available approach to culture large ornamental tree stocks, although the benefit from a large stock production of landscape-used tree species is obviously greater than that of afforestation trees no matter considering commercial or ecological values.…”

Substrate volume and nursery times for earliness and yield of greenhouse tomato

“…In cultivation, the highest total yield (8.20 kg plant root growth (Poorter et al, 2012;Urrestarazu, 2015), causing hypoxia and etiolation of the shoot, factors that affect seedling quality and behavior after transplanting. In forest species, the type and size of the container is directly related to the root morphology and shoot development, it also influences greatly in the success of the crop (Muñoz et al, 2011;Thetford et al, 2005;South et al, 2005). In vegetables like tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L), Kemble et al (1994) and Ruff et al (1987) by increasing in 20% the container volume, the time from sowing to the anthesis was reduced.…”