Development of a young stand of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) of the second generation on an allochthonous site

The paper evaluates the growth and development of the part of an artificially established 25-year-old Norway spruce stand growing on an cutrophic site in the region of the Drahanska vrchovina upland. Basic mensurational parameters were compared between four plots of a size of 25 x 25 m in 1986 and 2000. In spite of the same method of the whole stand establishment differences were found in the growth between particular plots. The main cause of the differences is the high amount of natural seeding in some plots and the effect of a neighbouring parent stand in the southern part of the plot.