Skip to main content
ARS Home » Southeast Area » Oxford, Mississippi » National Sedimentation Laboratory » Water Quality and Ecology Research » Docs » Effects of cutting size on performance of black willow (Salix nigra) stakes - Materials and Methods
Effects of cutting size on performance of black willow (Salix nigra) stakes - Materials and Methods
headline bar

 Periodic Flooding

Roots of 1 cm control cutting

 

 
v   Basal Diameter Sizes:
?       1 cm
 
?       5 cm
 
?       10 cm
 
v   99 replicates
 
v   Cuttings 1.2 m in length
 
v   Soil Medium:
?         2 parts commercial   sand
?  1 part field soil (Falaya, v:v)
v   Moisture Regimes
 
?         Periodic Flooding: 24 hours flooded, 6 days drained
 
?   Control: watered everyday
 
?   Drought: watered when predawn leaf water potential between -5 to -7 bars
 
vMeasurements 
 
?  Soil redox potential (Eh)
? 
?
  Leaf water potential (l)
 
  Biomass accumulation (g)
 
?  Height growth (cm)
 
?  Survival (%)