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Name: Bryan
Status: other
Grade: other
Location: Outside U.S.
Country: USA
Date: Summer 2010
Question:
Are there ground treatments (like fertilizers) that will either increase or decrease the production of pine cones?


Replies:
Yes, it is possible that fertilizers can increase cone production.

e.g.,

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/saf/fs/1984/00000030/00000004/art00029

Anthony R. Brach, PhD
Missouri Botanical Garden
c/o Harvard University Herbaria


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