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 Keane, William
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 Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)
If the stocks have been well disbudded by the nurseryman, few suckers will develop.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
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 Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)
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 Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)
The stock is then disbudded, taking both visible and adventitious buds, the latter indicated by woody enlargements, to keep down the number of suckers.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
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 Muskett, Philip E.
At the tying up of the reserved shoots, all new shoots which have developed since the first disbudding should be removed.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
After this disbudding, the two shoots left will grow rapidly, as they receive all the energies of the root system.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
Continue the usual operations of disbudding and thinning of fruit, and take care to keep up the proper temperatures.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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 Keane, William
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