Behaviour
Plants behave in different ways depending on their growing conditions or their innate characteristics. Here are some of the plant descriptions.
Bolting
Trait of some vegetables, like lettuce and spinach, that they grow rapidly and go to seed. Usually when the weather gets too hot.
Leggy
When plants start to get too stretched out – usually when they don’t have enough light or they get too much nitrogen, they are referred to as leggy.
Root Bound
When a plant’s roots wrap around the plant’s root ball. This is a result of keeping a plant in a container for too long.
Sprout, Shoot, or Sucker
- Noun:
- When a seed starts to show above the ground, the small plant is called a sprout
- The growth from a tree branch or plant stem, or the roots called a sprout, shoot, or sucker.
- Verb:
- When the seed has germinated and is visible above the planting medium.
- When a plant sends up a stem from the roots or a branch from the side of the trunk or stem it is said to sprout or sucker.
