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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"nursery production"”.
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Compost as a Growth Substrate for Woody Ornamental Nursery Production
Peat is an expensive, environmentally nonrenewable component of media used to grow woody ornamental trees. Leaf compost from the city of Bowling Green is an inexpensive renewable resource that was substituted for peat in soil-less container media. Seeds of three commercially important tree species, …
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Post-Transplant Root Production, Mortality, and Periodicity of Landscape-Sized Shade Trees
… 2) determine the effect of transplant timing and nursery production system on root, shoot, and trunk growth periodicity of balled-and-burlapped (B&B) and pot-in-pot (PIP) sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.), and 3) characterize seasonal patterns of root production and mortality of transplanted …
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Chemical, Physical, and Biological Factors Influencing Nutrient Availability and Plant Growth in a Pine Tree Substrate
… as container substrates for horticulture crop production. The objective of this work was to determine the factors influencing nutrient availability in PTS compared to PB or peat substrates. Chapter two reports data on the response of japanese holly and azalea to fertilizer rate when grown in …
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Essays on Environmental Economics with a Focus on Non-market Valuation
… technology (WRT) practices in selected nursery operations in the Mid-Atlantic region of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Partial budgeting, whole enterprise-level budgeting, sensitivity and break-even analyses are conducted to determine whether consumer premiums for plants grown with …
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HOW TO REDUCE TRANSPLANT STRESS IN URBAN TREES
… on a multidisciplinary process, involving nursery practices, site preparation, species and stock selection, irrigation, and pruning. This thesis analyses how nursery preconditioning and post planting pruning can help reduce transplant stress and improve establishment, root development, and …
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Using Plant Growth Regulators to Improve the Quality of Containerized Herbaceous Peony
… Lavergne'. Application of GA3 reduced production time and resulted in a greater number of shoots, and, in three of the four studies, increased the number of flowering shoots in three of the four studies. Substrate drench application of 15 mg·L-1 UNZ prior to spring emergence reduced …