Glossary
Healed
Growers call a cut or a mark healed once it has dried over and sealed. On a cutting the sign is a dry, tan scab over the cut face, the callus, and a cutting should be healed before it is planted, growers say.
Words that go with it
- BlemishGrowers call it a mark on a plant's skin, such as a scar, a scuff, an old healed insect…
- CallusThe hard, dry, shiny scab that forms over a fresh cut as it heals.
- ChamferGrowers use it for shaving the sharp top edge off a flat cut.
- GrowholeGrowers use it as their informal word for the areole — the felted spot the spines come…
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