Glossary
Log method
Growers call it laying a stem down horizontally and half-burying it. It roots along its whole underside and throws pups all up its length, which is exactly how broken pieces spread in the wild, growers say.
Words that go with it
- Mid cutGrowers call it a section taken from the middle of a column, with no growing tip on it.
- CuttingA piece cut off a bigger plant and rooted as a plant of its own.
- Mother plantGrowers call it the established plant that cuttings are taken from.
- PupGrowers call it a young plant that sprouts from an areole of a bigger one.
- Stump (base cut)Growers call it the lowest piece of a column, cut off above the soil, often already…
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