disbud
Americanverb (used with object)
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to remove leaf buds or shoots from (a plant) to produce a certain shape or effect.
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to remove certain flower buds from (a plant) to improve the quality and size of the remaining flowers.
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to dehorn (livestock) by removing the horn bud or preventing its further development.
verb
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to remove superfluous buds, flowers, or shoots from (a plant, esp a fruit tree)
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vet science to remove the horn buds of (calves, lambs, and kids) to prevent horns growing
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Origin of disbud
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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
If enormous blooms are wanted, disbud, leaving but one bud to each tip.
From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various
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
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
If they are wanted to bloom early in the fall keep well pinched back and disbudded during the summer which is the natural blooming season for all the best varieties.
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
If the stocks have been well disbudded by the nurseryman, few suckers will develop.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
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
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
In addition, disbudding may be practised with advantage in the spring, removing the majority of the blind shoots and any flowering or leading shoots that are misplaced or not required.
From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook
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
When not occupied in disbudding fruit-trees, Bullfinches are most frequently observed in tall and thick hedges, either in small flocks as described above, or in pairs.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
It would be just as foolish to plant vines any closer than this, as it would give unnecessary pruning, disbudding, tying up, &c.—that is, if the climate be such that grapes will ripen satisfactorily.
From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett
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
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