Disbudding Definition

noun

(agriculture) Removal of superfluous bud growths from a plant, done to encourage more robust growth of the fruit.

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(veterinary) In the raising of domesticated animals with horns, such as goats, sheep, and cows, the removal of the undeveloped horns from a young animal.

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Disbudding Sentence Examples

  • The pruning for fruit consists in shortening back the laterals which had been nailed in at the disbudding, or summer pruning, their length depending on their individual vigour and the luxuriance of the tree.

  • They may be produced, by taking care, during the summer pruning or disbudding, to preserve a number of the little shoots emitted by the yearly wood, only pinching off the minute succulent points.

  • Continue the usual operations of disbudding and thinning of fruit, and take care to keep up the proper temperatures.

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