What do you think - Trich

[Getafix]

I was given this cutting which I cut and turned into three plants.

I thought it was a Pach but now not so sure, well at least think a mongrel of some sort!

All pieces growing about the thickness of a nice Bridgesii.

An unusual deep shade of green, very fine spines and quite defined ridges.

What do you think?

Cheers

Getafix

[paradox]

yowie, perhaps or perhaps not the clone so common among the community but if not then it's the australian clone that is so similar i wouldn't be suprised if it is in fact the same..

what ms smith might call a "true pachanoi"

[Nemisty]

The clone known as yowie.

Those spines will really lengthen with age. They grow like a bat out of hell.

I swear the yowie in oz and nz are cut from the same plant somewhere back. They're just too dam similar!

[inti]

i am no expert.

But those spines look like a "yowie" to me.

But dont take my word for it. Someone else on the forum can confirm what it is.

[Getafix]

Okay, thanks to you all.

Have never had a Yowie, if that's what it is, in my collection!!

Cheers guys

[Optimystic]

Definitely a Pach.. Not intended to challenge anything anyone said as I have never seen any of the Yowies other than photos, and never saw one labeled as the NZ form or the other... but frankly I think its just as likely that a True Pach may randomly grow from seed and look alot like that...

I'd definitely say it looks like a true pach, which is nice enough for me anyhow

it's a beautiful plant!

I got a clone of one here in the states labeled as WOH (Wildflowers of Heaven) Clone... Mine looks absolutley nothing like one that MS has in his pics other than the straight dash.. of course it could be a fake, or just one from their seed batch or something... plus they're still small and my end up looking like others which are the same, But its definitely a Pach!

again I don't discount that its possibly a Yowie... I wish we had some of those here they look nice but i betcha I can find one that looks almost just like that, if not indistinguishable from yowie.... I wonder how ppl tell the pach clones apart being that these can be a variable as any tricho from my experience anyhow... is there anything particular that sets Yowie apart from other pach's other than knowing its source and general appearance?

I'm asking more to learn about it than to try to prove anything... maybe the dashes are a bit more pronounced?

Edited January 22, 2013 by Spine Collector

[Stillman]

It does look alot like the Yowie clone.

http://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/trichocereus-pachanoi-yowie.html

[Optimystic]

Yeah that definitely looks alike... alot alike

I find alot of photos with that label that don't look so much alike but then again most clones can be quite variable..

But I still think its possible another look alike can pop up from seed...

[Stillman]

for sure trichs have alot of variability as hybridisation is relatively easy.

[Optimystic]

i would so much be intrested in breeding something like a Yowie and something very close to a Yowie ,just to see what kind of variability came up.. I guess we could look at populations but that would be nice to do just to say someone did .. or has it been done? lol

[bogfrog]

I would say Yowie becuase of the two downward pointing spines.

Thats a nice one Getafix