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Glossary

"Seagulls over growholes"

Growers call it the memory trick for which way up a cutting goes. The notch above each areole looks like a seagull's wings, and wings up is the usual guide, though it varies from plant to plant, growers say.

Where you meet it: Planting a mid cut

the notchthe top
A mid cut has no obvious top — until you find a notch. The dent above each areole usually points its wings up, the usual guide to which end goes in the soil, though it varies from plant to plant.Wings up, as a rule. Plant the other end.

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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.

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