Pachanoi

Yogi

Grown hereWell documented

Yogi is a near-spineless from a beachside property in southern San Diego, planted by the owner's father from local more than thirty years ago. It presents fairly typically for the species - five to seven ribs, seagull-shaped notches, a little pale blue in part shade - with occasional semi-monstrose sections. The original stands were removed in 2026 and the passed to another grower.Reported, but not confirmed.

nearly spineless
5-7 ribs
seagull notches
light blue farina

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

Of the 15 things this page says, 6 name who reports them and 9 are marked as something we cannot confirm. Where a line is not settled, it says so underneath.

Updated 30 Aug 2026Added 23 Aug 2026

Species

Trichocereus pachanoi

syn. Echinopsis pachanoi

Filed under Pachanoi

Parents

Not recorded

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

Origin

It comes from a southern San Diego property close to the beach, which once carried six or more stands topping twenty feet.

no source says whether it is seed-grown or a cutting line

In the yard

1 available now

cutting · $20.00

Family line

what the record holds

No source in this library records a cross for Yogi. 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

The owner's father planted the original cuttings, which he got locally, more than thirty years ago.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

All the stands were cleared from that property in 2026, and a Reddit user took on the stumps.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.

A Californian nursery selling under this name says its own came from San Diego, which is where the wiki page puts the original stands.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.That the same name and the same city turn up in two unconnected places is worth recording; it is not a statement that the nursery's plant and the one described here are the same.Reported, but not confirmed.

Where the name comes from

It comes from a southern San Diego property close to the beach, which once carried six or more stands topping twenty feet.Reported by 2 independent sources; we have not seen it ourselves.

Character

A bar is drawn only where one of the lines below states it — never from the species, never from a photograph.

Not documented yet.
nearly smooth to heavily spined: this one leans towards nearly smooth, read from the spines line below.
Not documented yet.

Skin: Glossy blue-green.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. A glossy blue-green skin is an ordinary epidermis colour for a Trichocereus.It puts out a little pale blue farina when part-shaded.Reported, but not confirmed.
Ribs: tips stacked close together.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Closely stacked rib tips are a normal, commonly seen growth form in the genus.Usually five to seven, with notches shaped like a seagull.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Spines: Short.Checked and judged by our house botanist; no outside source states it. Short spination is common in the genus and nothing here contradicts it.Close to absent.Too little stands behind this for us to confirm it.
Growth habit: Mostly typical for a pachanoi, though it occasionally throws semi-monstrose sections.Reported, but not confirmed.

What the sources say

Outside this yard the name is recorded in two places: the community wiki, and a licensed Californian nursery that lists it and places its own stock's source in San Diego.Reported, but not confirmed.Our own notes carry the owner's description of a fat, glossy blue-green plant with short spines and closely stacked rib tips. The wiki page describes a fairly ordinary, near-spineless pachanoi rather than a notably fat one, so the two accounts should be compared before either is used.Reported by one source, and not corroborated anywhere else.

Yogi growing in the yard — Our own plant, in the yard. 4 pictures of it on its collection page.

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

Keep exploring

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

Learned from

The label this plant arrived with, as recorded in our own catalogue
Our own reading of the facts above, not a claim any source makes
sanpedrocact.us, the community Trichocereus wiki (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Cactus Affinity, a licensed California nursery at Chico, on the plants it grows and sells

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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