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.