Can anyone explain this columnar lophophora?

[greatnorthernexotic]

Saw this on Facebook with no explanation. Can anyone explain what's happened here?

[esp]

It looks like someone confused "leek cultivation" with "Lophophora cultivation" at some stage in their past.

[Tina]

I've never seen such awful lophophora, were they grown in a pipe

[Stuart]

Well they look healthy and they’re flowering, they don’t really look like they’ve been grown in the dark, maybe potted in 100% Phostrogen. Weird?
Stuart

[gerald]

Are they grafted? I really like them

[Herts Mike]

Gosh, they’re horrible.

[agaveguy]

beauty is in the eye of the beerholder

[MatDz]

beauty is in the eye of the beerholder

I not convinced anyone can hold that much beer, but we might find out soon with the two games back to back

[Tina]

I not convinced anyone can hold that much beer,

good one, they are truly hideous

[DaveW]

Could they be clones from offsets from an original plant since both look remarkably similar in size and character? All plants are individuals if grown from seed, but propagating from offsets will produce genetically identical plants. However only a DNA test would prove this.

Those who grow Lophophora's know they grow quite fast but proportionally gain little size since the basal tissue compresses or concertina's almost as fast as the crown grows. This is shown if a plant gets marked near the crown by how quickly it disappears to the corky or naturally compressing barking base. In the plants shown the natural barking is stretched out compared to normal compressing, therefore the original plant may have been an abnormal tall growing mutation that has been clonally propagated?