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Glossary

Apical dominance

Growers call it the plant's habit of putting all its growth into the single tip at the top. Cutting that tip off releases the plant to make side branches instead, growers say.

Where you meet it: Pruning, forcing pups

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Sources

Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0) and from @sanpedromastery6262 on YouTube.

Every photograph in the yard pages and the shop is of a plant grown here, except where a listing says it was grown by somebody else — it says so on the listing, above the price.

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