Heading back. This technique is used when we want to 'head' a plant in a certain direction (hence the name). We most often head back to control the size of a plant or keep it symmetrical.
Light Heading Back:
Light heading back is the procedure where branch tips are removed. This will control the shape of a mature shrub and increase bloom. The cut should be made approximately 1/4" above a healthy bud.
Heading back a technique that involves pruning off the tips of branches, which causes buds farther down the branch to develop into new stems and flowers. This type of pruning increases the number of branches, making a plant bushier.
heading back - Cutting an older branch or stem back to a stub or twig.
humus - The brown or black organic part of the soil resulting from the partial decay of leaves and other matter.
Nuss warns that heading back stimulates the development of smaller shoots and dense growth, particularly if every branch is headed back. Nuss recommends heading back just 30% of a plant's longest branches in a growing season.
Heading back Pruning off the terminal growth of a plant. Herb A plant grown for flavoring or medicinal purposes Herbaceous A plant with a non-woody stem that dies back to the ground in winter.
But heading back, which will encourage new growth, may be a good idea if your plant has long, spindly shoots with few leaves or only a single stem.
pollard A method of tree pruning that involves heading back severely to main branches each year so as to produce a thick, close growth of young branches.
Heading. Any cut made to a small branch must be made just above the bud. This heading back influences the form of the plant by directing growth from the bud and stimulating growth below the cut.
Last year in the early morning I would go out and my lawn looked alive from all of the slugs heading back to the beds. Feet are very effective at this time of morning, especially shoes without tread, they swipe, squish and pop unrelentingly.
They need fairly severe pruning to cause the plant to form evenly spaced branches that allow air and sunlight in but are nice and strong for fruit production. At planting, cut all the canes back to 4 or 6 buds. This is called heading back and is ...
 See also: Plant, Spring, Pruning, Flower, Branch
  
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