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Glossary

Etiolation

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Growers call it new growth that comes out noticeably thinner than the rest of the stem. On a rooted plant it means too little light; on an unrooted cutting it means the tip is not getting enough water and food yet, growers say. The thin section never thickens back up — it stays a permanent weak spot.

Where you meet it: Rooting, light, buying

waistnew growth
The thin band is the months the plant did not have enough light. The fat growth above it is what grew after the light improved.It never fattens back up — the plant grows past it instead.

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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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