Sentences with phrase «main plant stem»

Their reduced height makes them more resistant to lodging, a bending or breaking of the main plant stem.

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When the disease is severe, the fungus may attack main stems and branches, causing brown or black spots that kill that portion of the plant.

Plants need soil only for the reserves of moisture, nutrients, and adequate support of the main stem.

I read a book saying to pinch back the growing tip at two feet, but my plants already have many growing tips, as they have started to branch off from the main stem with quite a lot of flowers.

«You have needles coming off the main stem, which indicates the plant is stressed, so it is getting eaten periodically.»

The plants grew shorter and had the female ears right on the main stem, the way they are in modern corn, instead of on side branches.

«Intriguingly, the teosinte plants grown under past conditions exhibit characteristics more like corn: a single main stem topped by a single tassel, a few, very short branches tipped by female ears and synchronous seed maturation.

Soybean cultivars are often divided into two groups: indeterminate - tall plants whose main stem continues to grow after flowering - and determinate - shorter, bushier plants whose main stem halts growth when blossoms begin to form.

To propagate, the plant commonly spreads from its rhizomous roots, which can form new shoots if separated from the main stem.

Bouquets have three building blocks: A focal point (the main type of flower, which should be the largest); filler, which holds flowers in position (plants that are top - heavy with foliage but have bare stems are best); and finally, an accent — a smaller flower in a contrasting colour and texture.