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New Seller Seedling Giveaway! Share some Trichocereus knowledge.

As a long time lurker and occasional buyer, I’ll be selling some seedlings such as these soon and decided to initiate myself as a seller here with a Giveaway! Shipping is paid (US only), all I ask in return is maybe a kind word of feedback to the Tricho Overlord if you feel inclined.

4 seedlings are available to 4 winners: 2 ‘David’ x ‘Althea’, 1 ‘Sharxx Blue’ x ‘Chacrimar’, and 1 ‘Church Hill’ x T. peruvianus ‘Gissy’

I’ll leave two up to chance, and two will be chosen based on comments: Start your comment with a number between 1-500. Whoever’s closest to my two randomly chosen numbers will win. THEN, if you have some obscure facts about any specific clone or cross - it’s lineage, growing habits, the circumstances of its creation or discovery, etc - add that to the comment and two other winners will be based off what I find most interesting or well researched, based on my own flawed metrics. The more obscure the better - maybe you have first hand knowledge that’s not online, or requires deep research, or there’s just a quirk you’ve observed about how something grows. I thought I could use this giveaway to learn some lore about trichocereus clones/varieties - and maybe this will give this post some value beyond the end date, as a bit of an informal archive of Trichocereus history. (Also, if two or more people pick the same number correctly, I’ll decide the winner based on their comments.)

Winners will be chosen after 3:00pm PST on Tuesday, July 7th. If you happen to have a winning comment because you're an extremely experienced grower with no need for extra seedlings, feel free to gift your win to another user. Thanks and have fun!

u/hyperplants — 13 hours ago
▲ 11 r/Tree+1 crossposts

I took this photo years ago hiking Crater Lake in Oregon, and have been looking for this particular fir variety to try and plant in my yard. I found the silvery-white color and the prominent bulbous nodes of the saplings striking. I've looked for it at a few native-plant based nurseries in the Portland area, and some of their fir saplings looked similar (I think they were Noble and Subalpine), but none had as prominent of an outline around the branch nodes like the trees at Crater Lake. I've seen a few photos of Pacific Silver fir saplings that look similar too.

If there's some very specific regional species/subspecies/variety that has this look, at least in the younger trees, I'd love to know it. Or if the look is more a result of the environment conditions there. Unfortunately, this is the only photo I took, so hopefully it's enough to go off of.

u/hyperplants — 2 months ago