{"id":1110,"date":"2015-03-12T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2015-10-05T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T21:56:11","slug":"garry-oak-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/2015\/03\/12\/garry-oak-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry Oak trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Garry oak trial was established by Colin Huebert<\/a>. A range-wide collection of acorns\u00a0(2007) was planted first in a greenhouse, then in\u00a0a common garden in Totem field (2008).<\/p>\n

\"Garry<\/a>
Garry oak in 2008 (top) and 2010 (bottom). Bark chips and landscape cloth help control weed growth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a few years, with various people studying aspects of Garry oak, the planting density was \u00a0a bit tight. Some trees grew really well.<\/p>\n

\"Garry<\/a>
Garry Oak trial in March 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A decision was made to thin half of the 1900 trees. The better your trees grow, the more work they require! But, we are not dealing with poplars. Thinning required a chainsaw and a team of helpers. It was definitely\u00a0a collaborative effort.<\/p>\n

\"Thinning<\/a>
Thinning was a collaborative effort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But we had fun nonetheless.<\/p>\n

\"Hard<\/a>
Hard work and fun, too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This work party provides a good opportunity to single out some demonstration trees to illustrate provenance variation.<\/p>\n

\"from<\/a>
from top left, clockwise: thinned trees waiting to be chipped; provenance variation; discussing past and future research<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Who knows which other studies will take place in this trial?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Garry oak trial was established by Colin Huebert. A range-wide collection of acorns\u00a0(2007) was planted first in a greenhouse, then in\u00a0a common garden in Totem field (2008). After a few years, with various people studying aspects of Garry oak, the planting density was \u00a0a bit tight. Some trees grew really well. A decision was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747536],"tags":[662146],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-garden","tag-garry-oak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}