How are large amounts of trees planted? Where do you get them in the first place?

Question

I’ll read articles about either a country planting billions of trees to combat climate change, or a story about a husband and wife taking it upon themselves to plant thousands of trees. Are they planting seeds or saplings? Don’t they need to be watered and fertilized?

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Answer 1

There’s no universal way to do it, but generally they’re saplings a few inches tall that are grown in big flats so that they can be grown in large numbers. If planted in the right time of year when there will be plenty of rain, the saplings will generally survive on their own, although when thousands or millions of trees are planted it’s understood that there will be losses.