Glossary
Seed parent
Growers call it the plant that carried the flower and the fruit: the mother of a cross. In a written cross it goes first, before the ×, growers say.
Words that go with it
- CrossGrowers call it putting pollen from one plant onto the flower of another, and the seed…
- HybridGrowers call it a plant grown from the seed of a cross between two different plants.
- Pollen parentGrowers call it the plant the pollen came from: the father of a cross.
- 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…
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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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