Bolting refere-se à criação de bolbos para plantação. "Running to seed", significa literalmente: "em vias de germinar/nascer".


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Beginning the next spring, second year plants bolt into maturity, flower, produce seed during
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If growing conditions are such as to trigger the flowering reaction in the first season, the plants bolt. Bolting normally appears in hot weather and is an ...
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The plants overwinter as a basal rosette with kidney-shaped leaves. When the plants bolt in early spring, the mature leaves are triangular, becoming smaller ...
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When temperatures begin to rise in late March or early April, the plants bolt and flower profusely. By early May, when the shallow soil depressions have ...
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Como os dois termos são sinónimos, poderá optar por "florescer" num e "germinar" noutro.


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... signaling the plant is starting to bolt or run to seed. ... Seed catalogs and gardening guides often advise gardeners to plant their fall spinach crops ...
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We run a mail order business for organic gardening seeds, books and supplies. ... Cool season plants will 'bolt' (ie go to seed) in spring due to higher ...
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