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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] root control bags or pots
  • Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:22:32 -0600

At 08:53 PM 11/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Has anyone used the pots for dwarfing or general long
term growth control?

Haven't used these, but several nurseries (Forrest Keeling Nursery in Elsberry, MO & Possibility Place Nursery, in the Chicago area are two I'm familiar with - and I think Starks is using this on some of their nut tree offerings - which are probably being grown by the FKN folks) are using this 'rootmaker' technology, not necessarily for dwarfing, but for increased transplant survival rates - particularly with strongly taprooted species, and there's a mounting bank of evidence that suggests that root pruning and development of a fibrous root system(increased root:shoot ration) may also induce earlier fruiting.


Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY





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