The Container Tree Nursery Manual, Volume Seven | Seedling Processing, Storage, and Outplanting

Each volume contains chapters on closely related subjects concerning the production of trees and other native plants in containers. The volumes can be accumulated and used as a complete nursery manual, or they can be used separately by specialists needing information on a particular subject. Because several subjects must be discussed in more than one volume, there will be some redundancy in the manual. Such repetition is justified, however, because
most readers will be using the manual as a technical reference and will not be reading the entire text.
The Container Tree Nursery Manual has been functionally organized to follow the normal sequence of nursery development, seedling propagation, and outplanting. Volume one discusses the various steps that should be followed
in developing a nursery facility. Volume two is concerned with the selection of types of containers and growing media. Volume three and volume four analyze
the “limiting factors” that affect seedling growth and discuss how they can be manipulated in container nurseries. Volume five examines the various biological organisms that can affect seedlings, either negatively as pests or positively as mycorrhizae. Volume six shows how to develop growing schedules and how seedlings are propagated through the three growth phases. Volume seven covers the time from when the crop is hardened-off and ready for
harvest to when they go in the ground.