Summary
Six-month oldPinus caribaea var.hondurensis seedling were subjected to various regimes of restricted watering and their combinations with root pruning to determine a suitable technique of producing seedlings with optimum physiological condition for successful bare-root planting.
From the range of treatments tested, plants subjected to watering once every 9 days (D9) were found to be the ‘hardest’ in terms of highest root growth capacity, leaf water content, root starch content and in having a moderately low transpiration rate.P. caribaea seedlings subjected to this preconditioning treatment may be more able to survive bare-root planting.
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Abod, S.A., Sandi, S. Effect of restricted watering and its combination with root pruning on root growth capacity, water status and food reserves ofPinus caribaea var.hondurensis seedlings. Plant Soil 71, 123–129 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02182647
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