New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING
Chapter 17 - PEST, DISEASE, AND WEED CONTROL
Part 2 - PLANT NURSERY LICENSING AND INSPECTION
Section 21.17.2.15 - STORAGE AND DISPLAY OF NURSERY STOCK

A. Balled and burlapped nursery stock shall be maintained by surrounding and covering the earth ball with sawdust, peat, shingletow or other moisture-holding material not toxic to plants. Such moisture-holding material shall be kept moist at all times.

B. Container nursery stock shall be watered sufficiently to maintain the viability and vigor of the stock and shall be kept under temperature and light intensity conditions that will permit normal growth.

C. Bare-root nursery stock shall 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, shingletow or other moisture-holding material not toxic to plants; such moisture-holding material to be kept moist at all times.

D. Prepackaged nursery stock with roots packaged in moisture retaining plastic, peat, shingletow or other moisture retaining material not toxic to plants must be stored and displayed under conditions that will retard etiolated (non-green) or otherwise abnormal growth and will insure an adequate supply of moisture to the roots at all times.

E. All prepackaged nursery stock must have printed on the package the name and address of the packer or grower.