Vegetative stage
Pronounced / VEJ·ih·tay·tiv stayj /
The growth phase after the seedling stage and before flowering, when a plant grows stems and leaves but not buds.
Example in a sentence
“He kept the clones in the vegetative stage for four weeks.”
Also called veg, veg stage, vegging
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