Glossary
PC ("predominant cultivar")
Growers call it the single clone that makes up the overwhelming majority of San Pedro sold in North American nurseries and garden centers. Every PC plant is a piece of one original plant, so it cannot make more of itself from seed, growers say. It is tough, fast and cheap, which is why it is the standard rootstock.
Words that go with it
- BevelGrowers use it for trimming the outer edge of a cut face at an angle so that only soft…
- DegraftingGrowers call it cutting a grafted top off its rootstock so it can grow on its own roots.
- PereskiopsisGrowers call it a thin, leafy, fast-growing cactus used as grafting stock for seedlings.
- PupGrowers call it a young plant that sprouts from an areole of a bigger one.
- Rootstock (stock)The rooted bottom plant in a graft: the one supplying the roots.
- ScionThe top piece in a graft: the one being carried and fed.
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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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