Women Owning Woodlands- Selecting Pine Seedling Genetics

Ms. Anneta Pritchard, South Carolina Forestry Commission Santee Unit Forester, discusses the different options of pine seedling genetics.
This video was part of the Fall 2020 South Carolina Women Owning Woodlands Program.
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[Light music in background] [Anneta Pritchard with SC Forestry Commission speaking] When you think about planting loblolly seedlings, you look at, you think there's several different types of loblolly to choose from. You have third-generation seedlings that you may choose from. You have open-pollinated, open controlled pollinated seedlings you can choose from. You have mass controlled pollinated seedlings you can choose from and you also have clone seedlings you may choose from. Now that how the order I listed it the first one I listed would be the less expensive, the third generation will be your less expensive variety of seedlings, and your clones will be your most expensive. I’ve had several landowners over the years ask me is it economically viable to plant the more expensive seedlings. And that I think, time will tell on that. But one, I guess, thing I would say if I was going to consider planting the mass control pollinated or the clone seedlings, I would make sure that I did the most extensive chemical site prep possible and also and it would need to be in land that had the highest site index, And when I’m talking about site index what I'm talking about is the ability of the land to produce. So the higher the number is, the more that land is going to produce. The lower the number on the site index the less it's going to produce.
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