Glossary
Surface sowing
Laying seed on top of the mix and pressing it down instead of covering it. Cactus seed needs light falling on it to germinate, so burying it is the commonest way to lose a whole tray.
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…
- 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.
- PereskiopsisGrowers call it a thin, leafy, fast-growing cactus used as grafting stock for seedlings.
- SeedlingGrowers call it a plant grown from seed, as against a cutting.
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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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