Skip to content
Cart, empty

October giveaway: win my SS02 mother plant. Free to enter, ends October 31. No purchase necessary; see the rules. Enter freeSee the Yard

Two thick TPM stem tips side by side against black-and-white checkerboard tile, their surfaces bulging into overlapping rounded blocks with short white spines and several pale scars across the skin.
Growing

TPM

Also written as Trichocereus pachanoi monstrose

TPM is one of the most iconic monstrose San Pedro cultivars, loved because it never behaves. Plants that go dichotomous split at the growing tip — a pattern you will rarely see on anything else.

Read about TPM in the cultivar library →

Nothing off this one is listed at the moment. It's growing in the yard and gets cut when it's ready.

Tell me when it’s cut

When a cutting off TPM is listed, I’ll email you to say so (if you are not signed in, after you have opened the link I send first). I only have one of most things, so it is first come — nothing is held.

Email me when this is available. I understand this notice is about the plant I asked about, that I can opt out from any message, and that my address is not shared with anyone.

You'll get emails from the yard. Unsubscribe any time.

Species group
Pachanoi
Photographed since
May 2026
Photographs
4 on this page

Family line

This cultivar: TPM. Children: Beyond Pineapple, Hybrid family, TPM is recorded as its parent.

TPMyou are here
ChildBeyond Pineapple

What it looks like

Skin
One monstrose pachanoi line tends to stay green rather than turning blue.
Growth habit
Most cuttings of that line are "non-displaying" — they look like an ordinary column while still carrying the monstrose genes. Plants that go dichotomous split at the growing tip.

Photographs

My own pictures of this plant, taken in the yard.

  • Faded sidewalk chalk in white, blue, pink and yellow covers the concrete around them.

  • Behind it, a row of cuttings already stuck upright in the bark. · May 2026

Learn more