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Jul 20, 2013 4:23 AM CST
Name: della
hobart, tasmania
Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Photo Contest Winner: 2015
Gorgeous flowers. Love Taos.

Roosterlorn said:Tracey--disbudding and culling: two things I learned to 'get used to' from my Dad. He called it debudding. I disbud most all my new plants the first year 'down' here (maybe save one to verify ID)


May I ask - what do you gain by disbudding? If it's just to preserve energy that might otherwise go into seed, how is it better than removing spent flowers? Confused

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