OUTPLANTING 

 SURVIVAL 



METHODS 



The survival potential of nursery stock grown in fumigated soil has been tested by 

 a nursery-based "moisture-stress-plot" procedure rather than by field planting tests.** 

 Stock (2-0) from the 1963 fall-fumigated test was used in this phase of the work. 

 Seedlings from the same treatments used in the evaluation of growth (those shown in 

 table 4) and from adjacent unfumigated beds were lifted in late April of 1966, stored 

 until late May, and planted in the moisture-stress plots. All test seedlings were 

 kept well-watered until July 1. The seedlings were then subjected to three moisture- 

 stress regimes during the remainder of the growing season. Three random samples of 24 

 seedlings were tested for each species -fumigant-moisture stress combination. Survival 

 was determined at 2-week intervals during the first growing season. 



Raymond J. Boyd and others. Moisture-stress-plot evaluation of nursery stock 

 survival and growth potential. Western Forest Nursery Counc. Proc . 1968: 34-39, illus. 



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