Glossary
OP (open pollinated)
Growers call it seed where the mother is known — the fruit grew on it — but the pollen father is not, because bees got there first. One open-pollinated fruit can hold seeds from several different fathers, growers say.
Words that go with it
- AcclimateTo move a plant to brighter light, drier air or colder weather gradually, in small…
- 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…
- CrossGrowers call it putting pollen from one plant onto the flower of another, and the seed…
- Field capacityGrowers call it soil that holds as much water as it can without any pooling or dripping…
- GerminationGrowers call it a seed coming to life and pushing out its first root.
Is this wrong, or missing something?
Send a correction. It is checked before it goes on the page, so nothing changes straight away.
Send a correction →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.
Every source behind these pages →