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John's Jamon seal. Plain ring: nothing here sets a rib count, a spine length or a growth form the ring can mark.
Pachanoi
John's Jamon
Partially documented
John's Jamon is a San Pedro whose grew in Yucaipa, California, on a property that has since been bulldozed. The was saved and now lives with John Hammock, whose care of it the name records. From a distance the plant looks like a plain non-monstrose ; growers say it has more to it up close, but count, spine length and colour have not been recorded.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
pachanoi
rescued mother
plain from afar
PachanoiNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
Of the 6 things this page says, 6 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 John's Jamon. 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
That property was cleared by bulldozer, but the stump was rescued and is now kept by John Hammock.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
The wiki page reads the name as marking Hammock's care of the plant.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Jeremy Mercado supplied the account and the photographs.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Where the name comes from
The mother plant grew in Yucaipa, California.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.
slow and steadyfast grower
Not documented yet.
nearly smoothheavily spined
Not documented yet.
single columnclumps freely
Not documented yet.
Notes
At a distance it reads as an ordinary non-monstrose pachanoi, while growers say a closer look shows more character.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
No source we have found argues about this name — nobody has written that it is confused with another plant, or that two growers mean different things by it. That is worth knowing in itself.
A Pachanoi 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, Pachanoi. The better-documented ones come first.
