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What is disbudding?

What is disbudding? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (agriculture) Removal of superfluous bud growths from a plant, done to encourage more robust growth of the fruit.
  2. (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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Every family in the village has some land with tea plants, and generations of the villagers are involved in making tea by disbudding leaves and stirring them in big pans.
If only about 60 percent of the better stems are staked with canes and the other lateral shoots removed through disbudding, the plant forms bigger, and more showy flowers.
Here he is in spring, disbudding the pea plants and taking off the tendrils before securing the main stems with wire rings.
And be ready for kidding and lambing with heat lamps, blankets, disbudding boxes, nipple waterers, iodine or other disinfectant to treat the naval cord.
Some people opt to dehorn the kids, usually when they are 1 week old, with a tool called a disbudding iron, which looks like a soldering iron with the tip sawed off.
If you're interested in displaying roses for competition or just producing a nice specimen for the dinner table, try disbudding a few of your roses.

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