Nursery Regimes

 

There are three main regimes which PSS use within their
nurseries to produce the best possible stock and give every
single seed a chance to develop and grow.  These regimes
are as follows;

• Field Grown
• Cell Grown
• Super Sitka (Cuttings) 

Every kind of plant is different and requires a different type of environment.  The Forestry Commission has spent a
lot of time and energy in researching the best environment to grow a particular kind of plant and the results have allowed them to produce the best.  Trees within FC nurseries are all grown to agreed size specifications, if they don't make the grade then they won't make it onto the back of a lorry.  We want all our trees to have the best start in life so they have to be big enough to withstand the odd nibble by bambi.

Field Grown
Seed is sown outdoors and seedlings are either transplanted or undercut and wrenched to improve quality of root systems. Trees are lifted and supplied as bare root stock.

Cell Grown
Seed is sown in small containers and germinated indoors in large polytunnels. Plants are moved outdoors before they are lifted and supplied with the plug of compost to protect the root.

Super Sitka (Cuttings)
Stock plants are raised from high value seed insice polytunnels. Shoot cuttings are taken and placed in misthouses to be grown as field grown or cell grown stock as above.

For further information on any of the above, please contact John Morgan.