disbud

American  

[dis-buhd] / dɪsˈbʌd /

verb (used with object)

Horticulture.

disbudded, disbudding

1. to remove leaf buds or shoots from (a plant) to produce a certain shape or effect.

2. to remove certain flower buds from (a plant) to improve the quality and size of the remaining flowers.

3. to dehorn (livestock) by removing the horn bud or preventing its further development.

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disbud British  

/ diːˈbʌd, dɪsˈbʌd /

verb

1. to remove superfluous buds, flowers, or shoots from (a plant, esp a fruit tree)

2. vet science to remove the horn buds of (calves, lambs, and kids) to prevent horns growing

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Etymology

Origin of disbud

First recorded in 1715–25; dis- ¹ + bud ¹

Example Sentences

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disbud disbudded disbudding

And unlike most goat farmers, Putnam doesn’t disbud her goats when they’re young, so the herd comes crowned with the curved scimitars of their horns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2018

Camellias.—Look over them, and disbud where too many are set in a cluster.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by William Keane

If enormous blooms are wanted, disbud, leaving but one bud to each tip.

From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various

Abel Carrière, another dark maroon of fine form, and Queen of the bedders, producing carmine flowers so freely that it must be disbudded; it is subject to mildew.

From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle

As soon as the buds start, or when the most precocious has developed a shoot of a few inches in length, the vines should be disbudded.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

For blooming in winter, start young plants in February, or cut back old ones after flowering, and keep growing but pinched back and disbudded, in partial shade during the summer.

From Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell

I pruned and disbudded the vines myself, and also crushed and pressed the grapes.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane

In such cases they should be made to rest during the summer, by withholding water and keeping them disbudded.

From Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell

Remove large shoots cautiously, and reserve, in tying and disbudding, merely sufficient wood for next spring.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by William Keane

Attend to last week’s advice as to tying, disbudding, &c., and proceed with the thinning the fruit in the succession-house as soon as the berries are fairly set.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by William Keane

Peaches.—Frequent attention to be given in arranging the young shoots, disbudding and thinning.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by William Keane

Exhibiting, 157. — arranging at the show, 159. — cutting the blooms, 158. — disbudding, 157. — rose boxes, 158-9. — rose tubes, 159. — shading, 158.

From Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley

Half-hardy annual The older methods of growing Balsams prescribed a false system, comprising disbudding, stopping, and other interferences with the natural growth of the plant.

From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons