Thesaurus results for FRUITING

fruiting

verb

present participle of fruit

as in flowering

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Recent Examples of fruiting Pruning helps the plant focus its energy on fruiting for better fruit quality, manages plant size, and provides better air flow around the plant. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 May 2026 But Heusinkvelt recommends keeping fruiting crabapple trees further in the center of your lawn and away from driveways and sidewalks, where the fruit can be trampled and tracked around by shoes and tires. — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 14 May 2026 Fall-fruiting raspberries fruit on canes that grew in the current season (primocanes), whereas summer-bearing raspberries only develop fruit on second-year canes (floricanes). — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2026

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To enhance blooming, side dress flowering bulbs with a balanced bulb fertilizer when their leaves sprout, but stop fertilizing when their flowers bud out.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 23 Aug. 2026
Dragon fruit is ready to pick from July through October, 30-50 days after flowering.

— Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of flowering

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The discovery reveals what happens when the supermassive black hole engines that power these vast, blooming outflows of plasma stall.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Among the summer-blooming flowers gracing its beds and trellises are poppies, dahlias, sunflowers, and clematis.

— News Desk, Artforum, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of blooming

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As seedlings emerge, reduce the frequency of watering and practice deeper irrigation (learn more about seeding your lawn here).

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2026
The possibility that some countries actually like seeding chaos in neighboring countries cannot be ruled out, as is the case with Rwanda undermining the Democratic Republic of the Congo,but such instances are rare.

— Eghosa E. Osaghae, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of seeding

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Instead, Shanahan recommends layering, a method of propagating new plants from a still-living thyme specimen.

— Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 11 Aug. 2026
Mai is propagating more than 170 varieties collected from refugees around the world, helping preserve these precious grains while studying which are best suited to our changing climate.

— Laura Mclively, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026

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