Glossary
Pereskiopsis
Growers call it a thin, leafy, fast-growing cactus used as grafting stock for seedlings. A seedling grafted onto it reaches a size in a year that would otherwise take several, which is why almost every early hybrid you see offered has been on one, growers say. It wants far more water than a Trichocereus does, so it is stock, not a houseplant, growers say.
Words that go with it
- AlbinoGrowers call it a seedling born with no green pigment at all.
- BevelGrowers use it for trimming the outer edge of a cut face at an angle so that only soft…
- CotyledonGrowers call it one of the two little horn-shaped first "leaves" a cactus seedling…
- DegraftingGrowers call it cutting a grafted top off its rootstock so it can grow on its own roots.
- 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.
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