The shop is closed just now.The shop is not open for orders yet. Everything here is real and grown in my own yard — have a look around — but I am not taking money until the last few things are in place.Ask about a plant
Big Bertha seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Name only
Big Bertha
Name only
Big Bertha is filed in the community wiki with an empty page. A plant called Bertha turns up as a parent in at least one recorded , but nothing on the wiki page ties the two together, so we record the name and no more.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 5 things this page says, 5 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.
No source in this library records a cross for Big Bertha. Nobody names a mother or a father for it, and no other entry here names it as a parent.
That is the record, not an oversight: of the 749 names in this library, 693 have no recorded relation either. Most named clones were selected, cut and passed along without anyone writing down what they came out of. A parent goes in here when a source states it and never because a name looks like one — a wrong pedigree would travel further than a blank one, because pedigrees get copied.
If you know where it came from, tell us — a person reads everything before it appears.
The longer version
The community wiki page for this name is empty, so everything known about it here comes from one Californian nursery.Reported, but not confirmed.That nursery sells of Big Bertha and says the plant is the behind many of the hybrids now in circulation, and that it has been moving around the United States for decades.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.A seller is good evidence of what it holds and what it calls it, and weak evidence about origin — so this establishes that the name is in real trade use as a breeding plant, and not which Bertha it is.Reported, but not confirmed.
Character
A bar is drawn only where one of the lines below states it — never from the species, never from a photograph.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Nobody has described the skin, the ribs or the spines of this one anywhere we could cite, so there is nothing here to draw or to list.
What the sources say
A parent named Bertha appears in the Amaris cross and in discussion on the Emma page; whether that is this plant is not stated anywhere.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
A Trichocereus column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.
Related names
Filed under the same family, Other Trichocereus. The better-documented ones come first.
