budset

bud +‎ set

budset (plural budsets)

1. The development of buds on a plant.
   • 2011, R. Parish, C. M. Johnson, G. Montgomery, Regenerating British Columbia's Forests, →ISBN, page 232:

     Some programs use drought stress to cause budset and harden the crop in preparation for winter.

   • 2013, Tim D. Davis, Bruce E. Haissig, Biology of Adventitious Root Formation, →ISBN, page 252:

     The timing of budset was the most important factor in determining allocation differences between the clones.

2. The time in a plant's lifecycle when visible buds first appear.
   • 2009 March 14, Gord Stimmell, “Great value this week reflects industry's best”, in Toronto Star‎:

     Proper bud pruning, green harvests where whole clusters are dumped on the ground to bolster final berry concentration, as well as a myriad of intensive practices between budset and harvest.

   • 2013, F.J. Bigras, Stephen Colombo, Conifer Cold Hardiness, →ISBN, page 207:

     1-year-old seedlings of P. Sylvestris show steep latitudinal clines within Finland in date of budset and in the development of frost tolerance.

3. A bud, immature shoot, or growth tip on a cultivated plant.
   • 1985, Interior Landscape Industry - Volume 2, Issues 7-12, page 75:

     And growers using AQUA-GRO report greater budsets and faster crops with better rooting.

   • 2010, Cynthia Gold, Lise Stern, Culinary Tea, →ISBN, page 21:

     Only budsets (immature leaves, shoots, or tips) are harvested to produce white tea.

   • 2011, Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J. Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide, →ISBN:

     White tea budsets are shaded for approximately the final three weeks of their time on the bush.

4. A variety of tea made from the budsets of the tea plant.
   • 2011, Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J. Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide, →ISBN:

     Assam bush is the best choice for making many world famous teas, but not for white tea, either budset or leaf style.

• (immature shoot or growth tip): bud.
• (variety of tea): white tea

• bedust, bestud, busted, debuts, débuts