Glossary
Mid cut
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Growers call it a section taken from the middle of a column, with no growing tip on it. It restarts as new pups from its areoles, growers say. It roots and grows just as well as a tip, and it cannot etiolate at a tip because it has none. It must be planted the right way up, growers say.
Words that go with it
- CuttingA piece cut off a bigger plant and rooted as a plant of its own.
- Log methodGrowers call it laying a stem down horizontally and half-burying it.
- 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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