🙏🏼 🌵 - Auction Time! HBG18568 - "Ahu" - 4 Ribbed Beauty - 2 Day Auction - Ends Tuesday, 12/24 @ 9 PM Central

This is the second time offering this particular genetic and this time it's a bit... different. Initially, I received this genetic from u/NopaleroVerde when he offered it up here a couple years ago. It has an incredible history which I will outline below. When I cut the tip for my last offering, I noticed that the pup that started growing afterwards was super strange with monstrose, stacker traits. As I let it grow out, it grew into this amazing 4 ribbed wonder. This is the offering for this auction! As you can see by the pictures, not only does it have 4 ribs, the bottom is almost perfectly square. A fellow redditor gave it it's nickname Ahu because as the initial cut was growing out, it looked like a Moai statue from Easter Island. This unique cactus will make a fine addition to whoever wins this auction.

From Verde:

"So my moms coworker that gave me the original cutting used to work at a community college (shall not be named) and was saying she bought hers from their Arboretum when they used to sell some of their specimens. Did some reading on the startup of the garden and turns out they received some plants from the Huntington Botanical Garden, Los Angeles County Arboretum, San Diego Zoo and San Diego Wild Animal Park. Huntington has an identical plant to this labeled HBG18568.

I have not seen this sold on this subreddit nor Facebook, just seen it in a couple folks gardens and not this large

“HBG18568 was released into horticulture by Johnson as T. huanucoensis and by HBG as HBG18562…Harry Johnson, Sr. field collected the seeds in Peru (in 1956) soa possibility exists that the seeds produced F1 hybrids.” - Troutes Notes

The auction starts at a buck, 5 minute no snipe and all that. Shipping will be 15 bucks because this 12" cut weighs over 3 pounds. Good luck and thanks for looking!