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JN61 seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Other Trichocereus
JN61
Partially documented
JN61 is a seed batch code rather than a description: the letters point to a collector recorded as Josh, and the number to one Peruvian collection site. Plants under the code are grown from that seed, so they are siblings rather than copies of each other. Growers say they root and grow quickly and show blue dots on new growth, but no count, spine length or colour has been written down.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
seed grown
blue growth dots
fast establishing
Other TrichocereusField-collection code: A collector's accession number — initials and a number — rather than a nickname.
Of the 10 things this page says, 1 names who reports it and 9 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.
No source in this library records a cross for JN61. 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: ; the wiki page gives no species, only that the care of Peruvian Trichocereus applies.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The number 61 marks one particular collection site.Reported, but not confirmed.
Some growers wonder whether the seed originally came from the supplier Julio, but the wiki page records that as unconfirmed.Reported, but not confirmed.
Jeremy Mercado is named as a well-regarded source of these plants.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The seed behind it came from a batch collected in Peru by a collector the wiki page names as Josh, whose designation gives the JN prefix.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.
Notes
The wiki page describes the plants as raised from seed rather than as a long-established line. Specimens from Jeremy Mercado are described as healthy and varied, showing blue dots on new growth.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.Growers report it establishes fast and then grows vigorously.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Fast establishment followed by strong growth is normal for these columnar cacti.
What the sources say
Whether the seed originally came from the supplier Julio is speculated on and left unresolved.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.
