Pennsylvania Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Part V - Bureau of Plant Industry
Chapter 120 - FRUIT TREE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATION
Section 120.15 - Establishment and maintenance of plantings
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) Plantings entered in the FTIP shall be kept in a thrifty growing condition and pests shall be effectively controlled. Suitable precautions shall be taken in cultivation, irrigation, movement and use of equipment and in other farming practices to guard against spread entered in the FTIP.
(b) To assure that the inspections required by this chapter may be made properly and to provide close working knowledge of field operations, the nurseryman shall notify the Department, in advance, of removal of nursery stock or trees entered in the FTIP so that approval can be granted before the work is done. There may be no budding, grafting or top working of registered trees in any scion block, seed block or stool bed.
(c) Labeling of each registered tree and of nursery stock growing in plantings entered in the FTIP to identify it as to rootstock and scion sources shall be done in manner approved by the Department.
