Glossary
Cutting
A piece cut off a bigger plant and rooted as a plant of its own. It is not a seedling and it is not a baby: it is the same plant as the one it came off, the same age genetically and the same clone, which is why a cutting is the only way to buy a named plant and get exactly that plant.
Words that go with it
- Mother plantGrowers call it the established plant that cuttings are taken from.
- Stump (base cut)Growers call it the lowest piece of a column, cut off above the soil, often already…
- CallusThe hard, dry, shiny scab that forms over a fresh cut as it heals.
- Cut to orderThe seller takes the cutting off the mother plant only after you order it, so the drying…
- EtiolationGrowers call it new growth that comes out noticeably thinner than the rest of the stem.
- Tip cutSellers call it a cutting that includes the growing point, so it carries on growing from…
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Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0) and from @sanpedromastery6262 on YouTube.
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