A Three-year Study of Immersing Stored Loblolly Pine Seedlings in Water before Planting
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Survival of loblollypine seedlings stored in unheated buildings from four to nine weeks improved five to eight percentage points when they were immersed in water for an hour before planting. Soaking for a day gave essentially the same results, but soaking for one or two weeks reduced survival drastically. Brief immersion of s~edling packages every two weeks during storage impro~ed survival four percentage points in one year but redu~ed survival five points in another.
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