What does PINCH mean in gardening lingo?
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Pinching back is a method of pruning for plants which encourages lateral growth. But taking off the top of a plant you stimulate certain growth hormones and the plant will grow laterally or wider. This in the long run makes shorter, bushier plants with more flowers. Dead heading (removing dead flowers) is also another method we use to achieve the same effect.
All I know is that to pinch or to pinch back means to snip or nip off the end of a plant (especially a flowering one like some sort of annual) to make it branch out.
yes, and it can also refer to pinching out extra growth elsewhere on the plant that would sap the plant, like the little shoots tomatoes will put out at branch unions which will make it produce less fruit if you don't pinch them off.
Squeeze whatever tightly between your thumb nail and index finger nail. That's a pinch in any lingo.
Picking off unwanted buds, leaves etc with your thumb nail and finger. Use shears if you care to.
It means to "pinch" snip off the top part of plant to make it bushy not tall and leggy.
Dead heading means to snip off spent flower bloom so plant takes that energy and puts it into making a new flower bud.☺
It means to cut back the plant, usually after flowering to encourage more blooms in the season. Pinching back will also force the plant to send up more shoots from the stem for a fuller, bushier plant. The tips of the branches have all the growth "hormones", it will cause the plant to grow more branches which will in turn grow more flowers.
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