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PINCHING OUT AND DISBUDDING Key Letters Used in Index 
These drawings are made with the hope of making 
disbudding easier. The left side of each drawing shows 
half of the plant disbudded, while the right side shows 
the normal development of branches and buds on the 
same plant when not disbudded. 
PINCHED BACK TWICE 
Drawing X is recommended for most large flowering 
varieties under normal growing conditions. Pinching 
out once is best for varieties that branch readily, while 
pinching out twice will prove advisable on varieties 
that grow main branches rapidly and develop lower 
branches slowly. 
Key Letters to Drawings 
B Terminal Flower Bud 
C Secondary Terminal Bud 
D Lateral Bud 
E Branch 
F Side pruning, removing B and D 
I Internode 
L Lateral Branch 
N Node 
P Pinched out once 
P 2 Pinched out twice 
R Stalk 
S Stem 
T Where shoot or bud has been removed 
U Stem Stalk 
The key letter just ahead of the price is our recom¬ 
mendation of the sysrem to use in topping and dis¬ 
budding for each variety listed. 
V Do not disbud. For early blooms pinch out once or 
twice as indicated on right side of Drawings X and 
Y. For later blooms, cut back to about 6 inches 
above ground 6 weeks before you want blooms, leav¬ 
ing the side shoots or branches to come into bloom. 
This system works very well for the smaller type 
dahlias; such as, miniature, pompon, single, orchid 
flowering, anemone, and collarette; also for the 
larger dahlias when grown for mass color and land¬ 
scape effects. 
W Cut back six weeks before you want bloom leaving 
about six small branches for your first six blooms 
and disbud as soon as laterals are large enough by 
following Drawing X, if stems are naturally long, 
and Y when stems are short. 
X, Y, Z See Drawings. 
Drawing Y differs from X in that the variety is 
known as a crotch bloomer, or a variety with short 
stems where the flowers are often down in the foliage 
This is easily handled by side pruning, as indicated at 
F, using the secondary terminal bud instead of the 
first terminal bud for your bloom. The right side of 
the drawing shows natural growth after pinching out 
twice, which is not desirable except for mass color in 
landscape effects. 
