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Dafq seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.

Pachanoi

Dafq

Well documented

Dafq is a Californian with an unusually well-told origin. Riley Wallerstein found the mother stands in December 2018, and Jordan Nash, who already had cuts from a Craigslist seller, named the plant after their art tag. The two sources turned out to be the same stand. The property owner has been the plant back and tossing the pieces down a hillside for twenty-five years, and the mothers are described as the tallest columns the finder had ever seen. What the plant actually measures at the and spine has never been recorded.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

  • very tall columns
  • robust habit

PachanoiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.

Of the 13 things this page says, 1 is something several independent sources agree on, 4 name who reports them and 8 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Added 23 Aug 2026

At a glance

Species

Trichocereus pachanoi

syn. Echinopsis pachanoi

Filed under Pachanoi

Parents

Not recorded

No source names a mother or a father for this one.

Origin

Jordan Nash, after their art tag.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

Not in the yardAsk if you are after one

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Dafq. 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

Species, as our sources record it: referred to in the account as a pach (pachanoi).

Jordan Nash supplied the name, taken from their art tag, after seeing photographs of the cuttings.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Nash's own first cuts had come from a Craigslist seller who had large stands of the plant.Reported, but not confirmed.

The seller's stands were at first thought to be a separate find, until the community learned they came from the same location as the mothers.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

Wallerstein was allowed to keep the of one that had fallen over.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The property owner moved in around 1996, when the plant already stood six to seven feet tall, and has spent twenty-five years cutting it back and throwing the pieces down a hillside, which has covered the slope in the same plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A Californian nursery selling the plant says its own came from the same grower the account above names, calls it a San Diego pachanoi, and records that it also circulates as Cruelty and as Nuestra Bonita — with that nursery's own view that Cruelty came first, which is why it uses that name.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.The history here is no longer one person's account, and the entry carries three trade names for the plant rather than one.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

Riley Wallerstein found the mother stands in December 2018, shortly after joining the community that year.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Character

A bar is drawn only where one of the lines below states it — never from the species, never from a photograph.

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Growth habit
The mother stands are described as the tallest columns the finder had seen in person.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Notes
No rib count, spine detail or colour has been recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

What the sources say

The whole history comes from one grower's first-person account, which the wiki page presents as that grower's perspective and invites others to add to.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

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. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

Filed under the same family, Pachanoi. The better-documented ones come first.

Keep exploring

Cultivar histories in this hobby are passed between growers; where sources disagree we say so rather than pick a side.