Latent bud
Lateral bud
Lateral meristem - Meristem located on the lateral portion of a plant, a point at which secondary growth may occur.
latent bud A bud that does not break during the season after it is formed. Usually found on the lower portion of a shoot, it does not expand under normal growth stimuli, but will break if the growth above it is damaged or pruned away.
Both lateral and latent buds take their growing orders from the apical, or terminal, bud that is located at the tip of the branch.
Most hostas have more latent buds than they are ever going to use, and so by lifting a
plant, irrespective of whether it has been subjected to bud encouragement
techniques, there are great opportunities for rapidly bulking up plants. Wash off all ...
Water sprouts Rapidly growing shoots that arise from latent buds on branches or trunks. Water stress The condition whereby a plant loses water faster than absorbs it. Weed An uninvited and usually unattractive plant that surfaces in gardens.
Shape your container plant by snipping away long branches with slanted cuts made right above latent buds, or nodes. These are easy to identify by examining where leaf stems join the branch. Nodes are left when leaves drop from the branch.
Eye: Either the centre of a flower or a dormant or latent bud, eg the eye of a potato.
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F1 Hybrid: A first generation offspring obtained from two selected purebred plants.
If the leaves have fallen and the stem is bare, look for the leaf scar that indicates where a leaf was attached at a node, and make the cut above that. Nodes have latent buds that will sprout once the main shoot is removed.
Each of these primary branches should be cut at a different height to produce a more natural-looking shrub. Cut about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch just above a latent bud. Pruning above a cluster of two or three buds is even better.
 See also: Plant, Growing, Shoot, Flower, Soil
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