Glossary
Seedling
Growers call it a plant grown from seed, as against a cutting. Each seedling is its own plant, growers say, because these cacti cannot set seed with their own pollen, so seed never reproduces one named plant exactly. Even species that end up almost spineless carry spines as seedlings.
Words that go with it
- 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…
- PereskiopsisGrowers call it a thin, leafy, fast-growing cactus used as grafting stock for seedlings.
- YearlingGrowers call it a seed-grown plant about a year old: past the fragile seedling stage…
- Bare rootSellers call it sold or shipped with the soil washed or shaken off the roots.
- CuttingA piece cut off a bigger plant and rooted as a plant of its own.
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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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