Nuttall Oak Direct Seedings Still Successful After 11 Years

Robert L. Johnson

doi:10.2737/SO-RN-301

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Nuttall Oak Direct Seedings Still Successful After 11 Years

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Authors:

Robert L. Johnson

Year:

1983

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Southern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/SO-RN-301

Source:

Res. Note SO-301. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.

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Abstract

Forty-five hundred acorns of Nuttall oak (Quercus nuttallii Palmer) were either machine or manually sown at 2-, 4-, or 6-inch depths in a 20-acre, intensively site-prepared clearing within the Delta Experimental Forest located near Stoneville, Mississippi. Field germination averaged 36 percent; no significant differences in germination appeared among seeding methods or sowing depths. After 11 years, two-thirds of the Nuttall oaks, or 551 per acre, were free-to-grow: they averaged 2.1 inches dbh and 16.7 feet tall.

Keywords

Quercus nuttallii, sowing, seeding regeneration

Citation

Johnson, Robert L. 1983. Nuttall Oak Direct Seedings Still Successful After 11 Years. Res. Note SO-301. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.