Monday, May 26, 2014

Agave Pups

Agave - about 3 years in the ground
Pictured above is my Agave parryi ssp. truncata, planted in the ground about 3 year ago. It's gotten a lot bigger, but when I got it, it was described as "short, fat, blue and producing lots of offspring."  I wanted to have a small patch of these, so I've been looking for pups, but not finding any. As it turns out, I wasn't looking in the right place... As of this spring, there are 6 pups growing:
All the pups - the biggest is maybe 1.5 inches tall.
I was looking near the mother plant - the closest of these pups is almost 1.5 feet away. I'm still excited about having a colony of these - but maybe it will be slightly larger than expected. At least it's happy!

4 comments:

  1. I didn't know that pips could form that far from the mother plant. Cool!

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    1. I didn't either! It will be interesting to see how fast they grow!

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  2. Wow, that's quite a distance away! It was getting ready to colonize your entire garden :-).

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    1. It is getting ready to do that, yes... I might be happy to let it (for now!) Thanks for visiting!

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