thinning

horticulture
Also known as: thinning out

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fruit farming

  • Gros Michel banana
    In fruit farming: Thinning

    Removal of flowers or young fruit (thinning) is done to permit the remaining fruits to grow more rapidly and to prevent development of such a large crop that the plant is unable to flower and set a commercial crop the following year. Thinning is…

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pruning techniques

  • Keukenhof Gardens
    In gardening: Training and pruning

    …known as heading back and thinning out. Heading back consists of cutting back the terminal portion of a branch to a bud; thinning out is the complete removal of a branch to a lateral or main trunk. Heading back, usually followed by the stimulation of lateral budbreak below the cut,…

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