"Here is the origin of the super hero know as 'lumberjack" It never ceases to amaze me that my little joke has become common parlance in the ethnobot underground.
I went out to this bill collectors office in Rancho Cordova, CA to give up some blood money. Leaving I saw a big Lumberjack building supply store. I was fairly new at growing cacti, I think I was still looking for my first [peru], I probably just had a few [pachs] and maybe my first WOH which was sold as a [peru], but really looks nothing like one. I go out to the garden area and spot what looked to me like a [pach] but with wicked big spines. It was in a large plastic pot , had several columns about 3 ft high. I think I paid about $45 for it. …
As I learned more, I saw that it appears to be a [peru]/[bridge] cross. Like a fat bridg or a [peru] with less spines per pad. It's a fast grower, but doesn't seem to grow as tall as a [pach]. It flowers occasionally, and once I got it to cross with a [pach]. Sometimes the new growth has a beautiful blue color that love.
When I started trading it I gave it a fake latin name, "lumberjackius", which people soon shortened to "lumberjackus" and then "lumberjack""
