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These slow-growing plants usually don’t produce their edible flower buds until their second or even third year of growth.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2025
This horticultural oil is often called dormant oil, because it must be used before leaf or flower buds start to open but when temperatures are predicted to stay above freezing for 24 hours.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Step 2: Choose the Stem Look for a healthy stem from the current year's growth that hasn't formed any flower buds.
—Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
Prune when temperatures are above freezing and cut branches that are at least one foot long (18 inches is better) and full of flower buds.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2025
This horticultural oil is often called dormant oil, because it must be used before leaf or flower buds start to open but when temperatures are predicted to stay above freezing for 24 hours.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Step 2: Choose the Stem Look for a healthy stem from the current year's growth that hasn't formed any flower buds.
—Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
Prune when temperatures are above freezing and cut branches that are at least one foot long (18 inches is better) and full of flower buds.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
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“Flower bud.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flower%20bud. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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