Quality Trees for California
Tuesday October 16,2007
Walter A. Buehler Alumni and Visitor CenterUniversity of California, Davis
Management strategies for producing quality trees in California nurseries.
This all day event is designed for growers to address the quality of nursery trees produced in California.
Morning Session: Presentations and Discussions
- Principles and practices of quality nursery stock selection and production.
- Structural pruning to develop a nursery canopy
Afternoon Session: Demonstrations
- Hands-on quality tree inspection demonstration.
- Review of current production methods
Conference Features
- Keynote presentation by Dr. Ed Gilman, University of Florida
- Hands-on field demonstrations
- Methods for educating tree buyers
- Quality tree production strategies
- Pruning to develop a central leader and a salable nursery crown
- Controlling circling roots in container production
- Pruning for maximum caliper, canopy, uniformity, and structural strength
- Roundtable discussion current status of the industry and future opportunities
Contact
California Center for Urban Horticulture
ccuh@caes.ucdavis.edu
(530) 752-6642
(Registration materials will be sent at a later date)