Stock for fall planting must be properly hardened-off. Conifer seedlings are considered to be hardened off when the terminal buds have formed and the stem and root tissues have ceased growth. Other characteristics that in some species indicate dormancy are color and stiffness of the needles, but these are not apparent in white spruce. We supply the best quality young plug plants from our nursery in staffordshire delivered throughout england, scotland and wales. Our spring bedding plants, hanging basket plants and vegetable plug plants are now ready to order for you to grow on at a fraction of the cost of the plants in your local garden centre. I am very happy with the quality and size of my plant material especially the root systems which were more than adequate and not pot bound at all.

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On site in north staffordshire we have a garden centre, tea room and farm shop open 7-days-a-week. With black spruce and jack pine, but not with white spruce, grossnickle and blake's findings warrant mention in relation to the bareroot-containerized debate. During the first growing season after outplanting, Garden boots seedlings of both species had greater needle conductance than bareroot seedlings over a range of absolute humidity deficits. Needle conductance of containerized seedlings of both species remained high during periods of high absolute humidity deficits and increasing plant moisture stress. Bareroot outplants of both species had a greater early season resistance to water-flow through the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum than had containerized outplants.

Temperature is the major factor controlling the rate, and care must be taken to avoid overheating. Navratil found that closed containers in cold storage averaged internal temperatures 1.5 °c to 2.0 °c above the nominal storage temperature. Depletion of reserves can be estimated from the decrease in dry weight. Cold-stored 3+0 white spruce nursery stock in northern ontario had lost 9% to 16% of dry weight after 40 days of storage.

Without site preparation, large stock were more than twice the size of small stock after 10 years. The propensity of a root system to develop new roots or extend existing roots cannot be determined by eye, yet it is the factor that makes or breaks the outcome of an outplanting operation. The post-planting development of roots or root systems of coniferous planting stock is determined by many factors, some physiological, some environmental. Unsatisfactory rates of post-planting survival unrelated to the morphology of the stock, led to attempts to test the physiological condition of planting stock, particularly to quantify the propensity to produce new root growth. New root growth can be assumed to be necessary for successful establishment of stock after planting, but although the thesis that rgc is positively related to field performance would seem to be reasonable, supporting evidence has been meager. Planting stock is grown under many diverse nursery culture regimes, in facilities ranging from sophisticated computerized greenhouses to open compounds.

Types of stock include bareroot seedlings and transplants, and various kinds of containerized stock. For simplicity, both container-grown and bareroot stock are generally referred to as seedlings, and transplants are nursery stock that have been lifted and transplanted into another nursery bed, usually at wider spacing. The size and physiological character of stock vary with the length of growing period and with growing conditions. Until the technology of raising containerized nursery stock bourgeoned in the second half of the twentieth- century, bareroot planting stock classified by its age in years was the norm. Gradually, however, a realization developed that more was involved. The intuitive "Stock that looks good must be good" is a persuasive, but potentially dangerous maxim.