Other Trichocereus

Skyline

Well documented

Also written as Gloria Juules

Skyline is a thick, nearly spineless Southern California taken from several mother stands on one property, whose owner prunes them and shares the widely. It keeps its bulk in shade, yellows a little in full sun, and in the ground gets by on very little water. Its species is not recorded, and in 2025 a quantity of it was sold under a different name, which is worth knowing when comparing labels.Reported, but not confirmed.

nearly spineless
very thick
shade tolerant
outgrows pots

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

Of the 9 things this page says, 3 name who reports them and 6 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Updated 24 Aug 2026Added 23 Aug 2026

Species

Not recorded

No source named a species for this one.

Filed under Other Trichocereus

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

Several mother stands of this clone grow on a single property in Southern California.

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 Skyline. 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

It has moved through the hobby for years via Reddit, eBay, Facebook and the property owner, who prunes the stands and passes on large quantities.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

During 2025 a large amount of the clone was sold under the name Gloria Juules, though the wiki page says most buyers now recognise it as Skyline.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

Where the name comes from

Several mother stands of this clone grow on a single property in Southern 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.

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Skin: Green, taking a yellowish cast under full sun and staying darker green in shade.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Spines: Close to absent.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit: Very thick columns that stay thick even in shade.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. Some clones do hold their caliper in lower light rather than drawing thin; this is within the genus range.Planted in the ground it holds water well and needs little irrigation to stay plump, and in a pot it soon outgrows the container.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A thick water-storing column that fills a pot fast and needs little watering in the ground is normal vigour.

What the sources say

The wiki page states that material sold in 2025 as Gloria Juules was this clone under another name; we record that as the wiki page's account, not as a settled fact about either name.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

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

Filed under the same family, Other Trichocereus. 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.

Learned from

Our own reading of the facts above, not a claim any source makes
sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0)

This entry rests on one record. Every fact above traces back to sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0). No second, independent source has confirmed it, so read it as one account rather than as a checked fact. Where we do find a second source we name it here, and the register shows how much of this site rests on each.

Links go to the channel, the subreddit or the front page of a site — never to one video, one post or somebody else’s product page. Nothing above is copied from any of them: every entry is written fresh from a fact list, with the source recorded against each fact as it went in.

Written from scratch off a cited fact list, never copied. Learned from the sanpedrocact.us community wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0), @sanpedromastery6262 and @IMDAVESBUD on YouTube, r/sanpedrocactus and medicactus.com's buyer guides, then checked against university extension horticulture, botanical gardens, cactus and succulent societies and the published botanical record. I will not name a plant from a photograph.

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