Glossary
Field capacity
Growers call it soil that holds as much water as it can without any pooling or dripping — damp, not wet. The target moisture for germinating seed, growers say.
Words that go with it
- AlbinoGrowers call it a seedling born with no green pigment at all.
- CotyledonGrowers call it one of the two little horn-shaped first "leaves" a cactus seedling…
- GerminationGrowers call it a seed coming to life and pushing out its first root.
- PereskiopsisGrowers call it a thin, leafy, fast-growing cactus used as grafting stock for seedlings.
- SeedlingGrowers call it a plant grown from seed, as against a cutting.
- Surface sowingLaying seed on top of the mix and pressing it down instead of covering it.
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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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