'Shoots' in the Bible

The servants of the owner came to him and said, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how does it have weeds in it?’

“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its young shoots become tender and it puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near;

See to it that no one falls short of God’s grace; that no root of resentment springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;