N.D. Admin Code 7-04-02-05 - Storage and display requirements

All nursery stock offered for sale must be stored and displayed as follows:

1. Roots of balled and burlapped stock must be kept moist at all times and should be kept in sawdust, shingle tow, peat, sphagnum moss, or other nonphytotoxic moisture-holding material of sufficient depth to cover one-half of the ball of earth.

2. Container stock must be watered sufficiently to maintain the viability and vigor of the stock. Potting media must be maintained at a depth so as to cover all roots of the plants.

3. Bare-root stock must be kept under conditions of temperature and moisture to retard growth and maintain viability. Moisture must be supplied to the root system by high humidity conditions in storage or by covering the roots with soil, sawdust, peat, wood shavings, or other moisture-holding material not toxic to plants. The material is to be kept moist at all times. Roots of heeled-in stock must be covered with well-packed soil at least one inch [2.54 centimeters] above the crown of the plant.

4. Prepackaged stock with roots packaged in moisture-retaining plastic, peat, wood shavings, or other material must be stored and displayed under conditions that will retard etiolated (nongreen) or otherwise abnormal growth and will ensure an adequate supply of moisture to the roots at all times.

Notes

N.D. Admin Code 7-04-02-05

Amended effective January 1, 1988.

General Authority: NDCC 4-21.1-02

Law Implemented: NDCC 4-21.1-11