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Glossary

Chamfer

Growers use it for shaving the sharp top edge off a flat cut. As the wet flesh dries it shrinks, and a flat cut turns into a shallow bowl that collects water and rots; chamfering stops that, growers say.

Where you meet it: Taking cuttings

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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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