| Stool |
The stool is the
basal part of an old plant with stem and roots attached. |
| Sucker |
A shoot that
originates from the stem of the plant below ground level. |
| Cutting |
An unrooted
vegattative shoot tip about 2" long, usually originating as a sucker from below
ground level but often appearing on the stem above ground. |
| Leaf cutting |
A small piece of
stem with attached leaf, trimmed below a leaf joint and rooted in the normal way. |
| Leaf axil |
The space between
the leaf and stem of the plant. |
| Mother plant |
A pinched
vegatative stock plant with many side shoots that are used as cutting material. |
| Stopping |
Pinching out the
growing tip of a shoot to induce growths from the leaf axils. |
| Break Bud |
The bud that
appears at the end of the main stem of an unstopped plant. |
| Natural
Break |
The production of
sideshoots in the leaf axils following the production of the break bud. |
| First crown
Bud |
This is the bud
which appears at the end of a flowering shoot after the plant has been stopped once or a
natural break has occured. |
| Second crown
Bud |
This is the bud
which appears on a flowering shoot after it has been stopped for a second time. |
| Securing |
This means removing
all axillary shoots and unwanted buds in order to leave only the bud that will produce a
bloom. |
| Running On |
The act of removing
a bud and allowing an axillary shoot from below to develop into a flowering stem. |
| Counting
Down |
Simply removing
surplus flowering stems, usually in order to develop larger flowers on the stems that
remain. |
| Spray |
A flowering stem on
which lateral flowers are allowed to develop. |
| Calyx |
The outer casing of
a flower while still in the bud stage. The calyx 'splits' as the bud increases in size due
to petal growth. |
| Bract |
A small atypical
leaf below the flower. |
| Seedling |
A new cultivar
raised from seed. |
| Sport |
A change which
sometimes occurs in an established cultivar. This may involve growth characteristics or
mopre usefully a change in colour. |