LOL. The College I took horticulture classes from (Botany, Hort 1A & 1B, Pest Management, Soil Science and Management, etc..) is the same college who now employees me full time. I could care less what you think, because you are wrong.
That's the point exactly.
Quite different. One your butchering the rootball by destroying the majority of its uptake potential, the other (scoring) your creating points that will quickly induce lateral branching of root tissue behind the cuts.
Perhaps your professor needs a good douche.
Maybe you should douche her PhD if you ever get one.
They are only different by your definitions due to the fact that you want to take the statement to an extreme. In reality they are the same practice, only one is done by hand and then other with a knife.
Oh, and by the way..
This isn't some BS horticulture program either:
Phlox for instance is much better off being cut apart when planted and will recover faster than phlox thats has been torn apart and planted as many lost souls do. Most mosses also respond much better to gentle treatment. Cover grasses on the otherhand are usually a rhizome and tearing apart really causes little stress.
Doubt if he knows the difference between the root structure on cannabis, phlox or coastal bermuda grass.
You're so busy arguing semantics, its just silly now.
Troll it up much?
I would agree with this statement
No, there's no aggression. You're reading too far into things and searching for folly.
