Skip to content

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

Brians Blue Skies seal. Short spines.

Pachanoi

Brians Blue Skies

Also written as BBS, JS444, Poot's Pachanoi

Brians Blue Skies is a Trichocereus pachanoi.

  • powdery blue farina
  • thick columns
  • very short spines
  • disease resistant
  • short spines

PachanoiNursery selection: A selection a nursery or seed house put a name on and sold.

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus pachanoi

syn. Echinopsis pachanoi

In the yard

The longer version

The is reportedly tied to Poots Cactus Nursery.

Where it comes from

The clone is sold by Poots Cactus Nursery in Ripon, California.

Character

  • nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans toward nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.
Skin
Reportedly, new growth carries an intense powdery blue-gray , strongest in filtered light.
Spines
Reportedly very short and understated.
Growth habit
Reportedly thick, robust columns.
Notes
Its disease resistance is reportedly praised in wet, humid places such as Florida. Ribs are reportedly well defined, small, and spines short enough to be easy to miss. Reportedly, in mild climates it tends to flower in early spring, around March or April.
Drawing of a pachanoi-type column: broad, with low rounded ribs, almost no spines, and a small notch in the rib above each areole.
A Pachanoi column, drawn — not a photograph of this plant.

Every photo shows another grower how this one really grows. Thank you.

Have a photograph of Brians Blue Skies? It goes on this page only if you say it can.
Add a photo or a note

Accepted photos earn entries in this month’s giveaway when you add your email address on the form, and only people on the offers list can win. No purchase necessary. You can also enter free, with no photo, and it counts the same. 18 or older and a legal resident of the lower 48 United States, not Rhode Island or Washington, DC; the rules say the rest. Official rules and the free way in

More Trichocereus pachanoi names.

Keep exploring