Glossary
Rootstock (stock)
The rooted bottom plant in a graft: the one supplying the roots.
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.
- PC ("predominant cultivar")Growers call it the single clone that makes up the overwhelming majority of San Pedro…
- 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.
- 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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