Browsing & Discovery

The Browse page is the public catalog of all registered entities on Ohtli. You do not need an account to browse.

Use the search bar to find entities by name or OHT-ID. The sidebar gives you filters and sort options:

- Species — narrow to a specific type of organism.

- Availability — only show entities with active listings for sale.

- Distance — use your location to find entities near you. Click "Near Me" and set a radius in miles.

Location-aware pickup listings. When you have a location set (either by allowing your browser to share it, or by setting one on your profile), pickup-fulfilled listings are filtered and ranked so the closest sellers surface first. You don't need to manually filter by distance to get a useful local view.

Filters and sort persist in the URL, so you can bookmark or share a view. Click on any entity card to visit its full page with details, photos, lineage, and grower information.

Each species on Ohtli has its own page showing all registered entities of that type. Species pages are accessible from the home page badges or by clicking a species name anywhere on the site.

Species pages show a count of how many entities are registered and list them all for browsing.

About — a brief description of the species: native range, growth habit, family, and notable characteristics. Click to expand.

Growing & breeding — expert guidance specific to that species, organized into Growing, Pollination, Seed Collection, and Germination & Propagation. This is where you'll find practical, species-specific advice: when seeds are ready, isolation distances for pure seed, stratification needs, and so on. Click to expand.

Where {species} grow on Ohtli — a map of approximate grower locations for that species. Locations are jittered to protect privacy.

Flavor map — a 2-D map of flavor descriptors that growers have recorded for entities of this species. Each marker is an entity; clusters of nearby markers suggest entities that taste similar. Click a marker to see its tooltip, or zoom into a region to compare neighboring entities. As more growers leave tasting notes, the map sharpens — making it easier to find genetics with the flavor profile you're looking for.

Top growers — the Ohtli members with the most entities of that species, useful for finding people to learn from or trade with.

Heaviest single fruits — a leaderboard built from `weight` journal entries logged against single fruits. Growers compete on biggest, juiciest specimens. Only counted if the weight entry's subject is "single fruit."

Latitude extremes — the northernmost and southernmost entities of this species that have a real location on Ohtli. Activates once at least five distinct growers have entities with locations, so it's representative rather than noisy. Useful for spotting growers pushing climate boundaries.

As the community grows, species pages become a powerful way to explore the diversity of genetics within a specific crop — comparing different growers' organisms, lineages, flavors, and observations.

Every Ohtli user has a public grower profile showing their display name, location, bio, and all the entities they have registered.

Click on a grower's name from any entity page to visit their profile and see their full collection.

Grower profiles help build community by letting you discover who is growing what, where, and what they are learning. You can find growers in your region or growers working with species you are interested in.

Ohtli builds dedicated pages for every country, state, city, and city-by-species combination that has activity on the platform. They live at predictable URLs:

- `/growing/{country}` — country-level overview

- `/growing/{country}/{state}` — state or region overview

- `/growing/{country}/{state}/{city}` — city overview

- `/growing/{country}/{state}/{city}/{species}` — what's being grown of one species in one city

Regional pages list the entities and growers in that area, surface local pickup listings, and (on the species-in-city page) show the same leaderboards as the species page — but scoped to that city.

These pages are public and link well from search engines, so they're a good way for new growers in your area to find Ohtli.