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Hulk Balls seal. 5 ribs recorded.

Hybrid

Hulk Balls

Partially documented

Hulk Balls is a second-generation hybrid recorded as crossed with grandiflorus. It grows as a cluster of rounded pups rather than one column, in bright lime-green with five or six wavy ribs and many short whitish spines. Its parentage is the best-attested thing about it; the wiki page is inconsistent about who originated the plant, and gives no cultivation experience specific to it.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

  • lime green
  • clustering pups
  • 5-6 ribs
  • short pale spines

HybridCross: A seed-grown plant from two named parents, written mother × father.

Of the 10 things this page says, 4 name who reports them and 6 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

Not recorded

No botanical name on file. What the sources do say about its species is in the writing below.

Filed under Hybrid

Parents

Trichocereus scopulicolaTrichocereus grandiflorus

Seed parent: Trichocereus scopulicola · Pollen parent: Trichocereus grandiflorus

Origin

George Huang is cited as stating the F2 scopulicola x grandiflorus parentage, which other growers then backed up.

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Parents: Trichocereus scopulicola, Scopulicola family, unconfirmed by our sources; Trichocereus grandiflorus, no entry yet, unconfirmed by our sources. This cultivar: Hulk Balls.

Seed parentTrichocereus scopulicolaPollen parentTrichocereus grandiflorusno entry yetHulk Ballsyou are here

Every ring is that plant’s own seal, in its family’s colour — open one to keep going.

Each plant wears its own seal here, coloured by its family — so a cross shows which side brought what before you read a name. A dashed ring is a plant with no page here yet, and a wire is only ever drawn from a parent somebody wrote down. Children are worked out from the other entries rather than stored on this one, so recording a cross anywhere lights it up on both plants.

The line matters as much as the box. A dashed line is a cross we can report but cannot confirm. Every cross drawn here is at that weakest reading, which is the true state of this plant's record.

Drawn 3 generations each way. Everything our sources record for this plant is in the drawing; the family stops there, not the tree.

Recorded as an F2, meaning a second-generation seedling out of that rather than the first cross itself; the wiki page credits the parentage claim to George Huang in its citation table while its prose calls James Buchanan the originator.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

The longer version

Species, as our sources record it: an F2 hybrid stated as scopulicola x Trichocereus grandiflorus.Reported, but not confirmed.

The wiki page's prose names James Buchanan as the originator while its citation table attributes the parentage claim to George Huang.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

George Huang is cited as stating the F2 scopulicola x grandiflorus parentage, which other growers then backed up.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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Notes
Bright lime-green skin that can look faintly waxy in strong sun.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Lime-green epidermis with a faint waxy sheen under strong light is a normal skin type here.It clusters, producing rounded pups rather than a single column.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Basal and lateral clustering with rounded offsets is common and unremarkable in Trichocereus.Pups carry roughly five or six pronounced, slightly wavy ribs.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Five or six pronounced, slightly undulating ribs is well within the normal range for this genus. are well defined and bear many short yellowish-white spines of about half a centimetre to a centimetre.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Well-defined areoles with numerous short pale spines at that length are entirely ordinary for the genus.

What the sources say

The wiki page attributes the parentage claim to two different people in two different places.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Drawing of a cross: one column carrying a rounded, nearly spineless habit on one side and a deeply notched, long-spined one on the other.
A hybrid column, drawn. We don't grow this one, and we will not borrow anybody else's photograph of it.

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

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