Possible Clues:

• Sprout
• A regiment prepared to shoot
• Sounds as if what the Teuton swallowed made him seedy
• Grow and develop
• Sprout — develop
• (Of seed) start to shoot
• I greet man casually as 'bud'
• Start to grow - a regiment (anag)
• Sprout as in a regiment
• Develop Item 7 in the greenhouse