Pennsylvania Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Part V - Bureau of Plant Industry
Chapter 120 - FRUIT TREE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATION
Section 120.14 - Certified nursery stock

(a) Fruit tree nursery stock being grown for Penn Premium-certification shall be on rootstocks approved by the Department and shall originate from registered seed trees or from registered stool beds. Fruit tree nursery stock being grown for Penn Standard-certification may be grown on noncertified rootstocks, however registered scion sources should be used when available.

(b) Penn Premium- and Penn Standard-certified nursery stock shall be planted sufficiently apart to maintain their identity and may not be located within 300 feet of a commercial planting of stone or pome fruit. All certified nursery stock shall be designated as to topstock, interstock and rootstock sources. There may be no rebudding or regrafting of nursery row stock unless the stock is reworked from the same registered scion sources as used originally.

(c) Certified nursery stock shall have been produced on soils that received a preplant nematicide or that were sampled before planting and found to be free from virus vector nematodes (Xiphinema spp.).

(d) Nursery stock meeting the requirements of the FTIP, when sold, shall have the variety, interstock and rootstock designated, where applicable, as follows: variety/interstock/rootstock.