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Trichocereus ID help

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Any guesses? I am now strongly leaning towards one species, and I want to see what you all think before giving more info and back story.

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I don't think that's O. compressa, it has larger and thicker pads, and a lot more glochids than my 'real' O. compressa, but is otherwise very similar.

I'd probably bet some small amount of money on the scion being a hybrid, my initial ID was chilensis, but now I'm starting to doubt that, it's growth habit, general appearance, spine colour and arrangement is significantly different from all my other chilensis seedlings. And epidermis colour and texture make me think it has some pasacana genes rather than tersheckii. It should be very fun observing it's development.

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these still have me shaking my head and whether or not they are the same as yours Tangich just further

complicates my thought tracks... looking at my younger ones makes me think the Ibloc and Wss ones I got

are all the same... my first batch of grafts were all blondes and I guess that threw me off lol but then again

i've seen red spines turn blonde

another thing to note is that scions can look different with different stocks... I've got a single peru

on an opuntia stock and its starting off totally different than the pereskie grafts of the same clone...

I can sorta see chilensis in there but I dunno time will tell .. i've ruled out pure bred Pascana on mine tho

if im wrong oh well eh most of the chilensis I see when I search have defined marks and the aereoles tend

to be shield shaped... So far the adult looking aereoles on these spiny ones are all round shaped.. not that

its an indicator (shrugs) and who knows they might stretch out in time... ultimately im leaning towards the

tacaquirensis camp...

I do have an Opuntia called Devils Tongue/Humifusa(Syn Compressa) but maybe mislabeled, tho theres

many types of the sort... I have another that is for sure true compressa/humifusa and in the winter it shrivels

up and goes purple like its supposed to, but the devil's tongue one doesn't.... I haven't grafted to it

but i've got a pad ready to go so any day now i'll give compressa a shot... the devil's tongue one looks similar

to your stock but hard to tell with opuntias especially without seeing a mature plant, but if your opuntia is a crawling

variety then perhaps they're similar.. mine has gone a bit yellow I guess with too much sun or maybe the soil

I dunno, but has been that way for over a year and growing okay ...

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Probably the last pictures of the season. The more it grows, the less of a f*#&ing idea I have about what it is.

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