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Waters-Blue is a blue, out of Manson Waters' collection, put into circulation through auction groups by the grower who introduced it. Its main documented point is a correction: it is not the same as a clone called Sol's Treasures, which comes from a different California stand. A resemblance to the semi-monstrose TPQC habit is floated on the wiki page and left as speculation.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
blue skin
possibly semi-monstrose
Other TrichocereusNamed clone: One original plant and every cutting taken from it, given a name by a grower.
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 Waters-Blue. 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: a glaucous ; no species stated.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Kristopher Paul Carroll introduced it and distributed it through online auction groups.Reported, but not confirmed.
It is not the same plant as a clone called Sol's Treasures, which comes from a stand in King City, California that the same grower has permission to prune.Reported, but not confirmed.
Where the name comes from
The clone comes from the collection of Manson Waters.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.
Skin
Blue and glaucous.One source states this, and our house botanist has checked it. A blue, glaucous skin is an unremarkable state for this genus.
Growth habit
Some growers think it behaves like a TPQC, with semi-monstrose irregular ribbing and short spines, though the wiki page presents that as speculation.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
What the sources say
The comparison to TPQC growth is speculative rather than observed side by side. The wiki page exists partly to correct a mix-up with another clone from the same grower's circle. The wiki page is bot-compiled and unverified.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.
