LOL I KNOW I CHOKED LEARNING THAT 🤣 like damn it's just gotta die after blooming once??? They see that plant every day....I'd start cutting the damn stem off like if the flower doesn't bloom DOES IT LIVE ?!
@@garcias2039 oh I'd have to chop that poor flower off :C I'm just selfish and would try anything not to loose the original plant unless I could somehow harvest the flower and plant it again from there. I guess it would depend on if I got attached to the flower bud to. Lol probably...
My parents who live in the middle of the desert had one of these bloom in their front yard when I was a teenager. It came with the house when they purchased it 20 or so years prior, didn't think much of it and totally didn't realize what it was till it started to shoot up the stalk. It got HUGE, and smelled quite lovely. Was a really dry year so an absolute cloud of butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, beetles, etc came each day (bats and moths at night) to take advantage of the sweet nectar. Which in my opinion was the coolest part.
They acctually do that all throught their life! Theres probably hundreds of Lil pups under it! I grow agaves and I started from one that was only a few years old in a big pot and I kept separating the pups from it and planting them in a bed spaced from eachother and I have a ton of em now only a couple years later and alot more pups have formed on the mother plant again and it will be atleast 10 to 15 yrs before it flowers! Theres an agave infront of a store in my town that was planted 4 years ago and it was planted in sand and rocks and dirt and it did super well and it has thousands upon thousands of pups that produce their own pups constantly and it's only like 4 yrs old and has a long time before it will flower! Bananas send out pups whenever their gonna flower but will sometimes put pups out the year before flowering too but anytime their gonna flower they garunteed send out pups than the main flowering plant dies back and the pups all take its place
Yup, a lot. And if you take them out to transplant them you can leave them out for a week or two before actually planting them and they won’t die. It actually helps them not to rotten, otherwise the roots may get rotten and the baby agave will die
I had a big one i moved twice. It grew so big I had to leave it when I moved. But I have a medium size one that has alot of pups that need to be cut out and potted. They are very sharp and need to have leather gloves when working with them. They grow larger if planted in ground instead of pot.
I had one a few years ago. The best part is that after the flowers die down, the stalk is covered in many tiny little plants for you to pot up and give away.
Yes, by the time they flower, they have many side plants, much like the little succulent plants you might have at home. The diffrerence is that once you plant this sucker, it's there for a quarter of a century.
@@lyssanch3096 they are the same, but the agave we know as the one people use for tequila, is called Agave Azul (Blue Agave). Magueyes/Agaves have many varieties. This one is not Agave Azul
I am glad you said that- I was getting a bit peeved thinking about them replanting it. Beautiful plant, I dont know anything about them but wonder if the blooms will be germinated so it can be repopulated or does it need another plant- googling lol
Theirs patches that are like half a football field size of these in northern california growing on the side of the freeway with new pups all the time and mature ones flowering. I mean he only planted it 5 years ago. Time to go to your local nursery and buy a new one or order one online.
@@franciscopineda2594 your experience isn’t typical. So while not rare where you live they are not common in most. I’ve seen them twice in my life and those were at a museum and a botanic garden.
My mom has 3 of these on the side of her AZ home. We didn't think much of them until almost overnight, all three grew huge stalks. They are at least 25 feet tall - taller than her roof and flowering. I think after the flowers die, our neighbor said the whole plant will die. It took 25+ years for the stalks to develop.
@[deleted] yah, its crazy i had a whole field of these growing in my backyard once. had to be at least 90,000 plants, one grew a mile or two into the sky and when we climbed it, we got to meet real giants, who granted us three wishes each. my first wish, was to type up BS stories on youtube, to make the user [deleted] giggle, or just get mad for no reason. my second wish was for a burger and my 3rd wish was to let me stop suffering from sleep deprivation.
We have these all over our city in Southern California. Since they’re drought tolerant, they’re added to the community landscaping. One of the street corners have 8 all lined in a row. They all bloomed at the same time. Crazy, but cool to see.
My father in law has these in his ranch in mexico the stem is called quiote you roast it with the dry flower and it taste like sugar cane good for the skin and kidneys. The agave has a honey in the center we scrach it in the morning to get the water in the evening you take out the bugs boil it. And then you drink it. It taste like sweet corn good for bloating and skin.
Had a neighbor who cut down the bloom stalk of one in his back yard before it bloomed and my Mom was so mad, we could see it from our living room window and waited for it to bloom just to watch it be cut down. Sad people don’t know and don’t spent the time to research how to care for plants properly. Hope nothing bad happens to this plant now that people know about it.
The reason is cause cutting the bloom will prevent the agave from dying! Personally I think it's better to let it flower and let the pups take its place but the guy wasnt doing anything wrong he just wanted to keep his plant alive!
@@GoldenBoy-et6of my Mom talked to him and he had no idea it was a flower he thought there was a weird anomaly with the plant. It still died. It was the only one in his garden. He really had no idea.
I had one for almost 30 years and it did the same , it had grew artichoke looking bumps and they really grew , turned out they were flowers , and they bloom some Beautiful flowers , but only at night
The plant that blooms at night is the Night Blooming Cerus plant. I went outside every night until mine bloomed and a large luna moth was lit on bloom feeding.
We have those growing about here in the Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 for decades. Traditionally,when the stalk and blossoms have died off,we cut it off/out and use it as a Christmas Tree 🎄. They are the easiest plant to find on the islands at great distances because the blossoms have this distinctive yellow color that can been seen anywhere. Beautiful plant nonetheless 👍🏽
There was one of these plants in my old neighborhood with an extended center stem. I took pictures. When I went back a year later to show a friend, it was gone. Did not know it marked the end of its life. So sad.
I think cactus should be embraced as a front yard ornamental more than it is. I’d imagine in southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico it’s pretty common but here in Texas they could be used more. From the ones I’ve seen planted in several yards here in Austin they all seem to do extremely well. Several different types as well. They’re absolutely gorgeous, thrive in this climate, and require much less water than a green lawn would require to look good.
But then you have a plant on your property that is more legally protected than you are and you’re forbidden to harm it. You can do 25 years for harming a cactus. I wouldn’t want that liability in my front yard
They are incredibly common where I’m from in southern California. They’re in most parking lots of businesses and in the decorative medians. I have about 5 in my yard. Agave tequilana gets massive though and are very spiky so it’s hard to prune them. I’m in Austin right now for the rest of the year and we have had more rain in one week than my home town in ca does in an entire year, so I wonder if that would be too much for the plant.
There's a massive one blooming in our neighborhood right now, the flowers have an almost fairytale-like quality to them. I'm kinda shocked this made the news though 😂
Wow, why would someone vandalize a plant? I'd say ignorance. We, as caretakers of this earth need to do a lot better. Vandalizing is not normal or ok. It's sort if like bullying.
I have one close to that size that I planted about 15 years ago. The true name of these is Agave Americana. Even though they die after blooming, they constantly form Pups throughout their lives and these can be removed to carry on.
It is a common maguey, its flowers are simple but they attract a lot of ants and bees, the best thing is the honey that can be obtained, you can also get pulque, a delicious drink, some species are fermented for mezcal or tequila.
*⏩ Hold on, people! Faulty info.* The century plant *shoots up a tall stock one time,* it blooms, and then the entire stock starts to die, about a month later. *The entire plant, however, does not die.* In rarer cases, century plants have bloomed MORE than once, but blooms were about 25 years apart. Growing up in Santa Barbara, we used to called them *the Quarter-Century plant!*
When maguey plants do flower is pretty much done they take a long time to flower. In the Mexican culture we extract maguey honey to drink it once the stem comes out it’s the sign that is ready to produce honey my grandfather had a bunch but be careful when handling if you touch the juices even when trimmed it will give you a rash for days, Mexican culture names the honey the maguey produces as the drink for kings sweet and fresh the taste is similar to a expensive moscato wine.
You're not kidding about the rash. Getting the sap on you gives you an incredible, burning itch afterwards. I made the mistake once of using my hand with the sap to get hair off of my face. Not fun. I took my Agave out because I was tired of getting sap on me every time I had to take out the suckers, which are always coming up and which make the plant look unkept.
Seen many of this when living in Mexico and here in the US at my house. Beautiful 🤩 plant and flower, I am so in love with agave plants and the different varieties. Lovely 🥰
I’ve never known what a century plant was until yesterday, when my friend showed them to me and gave me three tiny plants from the large one they have. He explained that they flower once after many years and they would shoot a huge stalk out of the top like a tree that could grow forty feet into the air. We decided I should plant it on the day I move back into my grandparents house, after renovations. My mom suggested planting it by the flowering yucas, on the edge of my property by a major road. By the time my son has children, we might see it flower. Needless to say I was skeptical about just how this would actually happen. Then, today without researching the plants, or having any chance to look them up, suddenly this came up on my timeline. Wow! Maybe you will see mine, one day... Cheers!
As a kid we had one once as the centerpiece of the front yard. They grow fast and needs a lot of space. It has some wicked points on the leaf, I remember cutting them off so no one got impaled.
Agaves can reach this size in about 20 years, so the "century" plant is kind of a misnomer. They are actually pretty common in SoCal. We had one, it is very impressive, the flower stalk can get just as tall as the telephone pole! The neighbors would often ask if they could cut off a leaf. When fermented, the thick sap is used to make tequila, pulque, or mezcal. It is sweet enough to be processed into a sugar substitute.
This is pretty amazing As I was listening to this story. My mind took me to Denise the Menise. When Mr. Wilson was hosting a garden party 🥳. Well that plant was very rare and it bloomed for just seconds. However you know Denise 😏 😉. Lol 😆 🤣 😂
I've seen a couple here in Florida. But twice just before they bloomed a storm broke the stalk after watching for 2 weeks so I've yet to see one bloom.
How beautiful We have one here in Willcox, AZ outside our station and it is passed the roof! It’s somthing beautiful I’ve never seen one before and it’s crazy to see it on RU-vid! 🙌🏼 thank you & blessings
I just had this same plant grow a ginormous aspargus in my front yard (two of them).. It was fascinating, then the plant died, which I'm happy about because prior owners planted them right next to the driveway and they were stabbing us getting in/out of the car.
Why is there even a news report about this?! 😂😂 There are literally THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of agaves in Houston and throughout the entire southwest! This is NOT a rare occurrence whatsoever! Sure it may only happen every 15-40 years, but with so many Agaves there will be hundreds blooming every year! I guess people from the East Coast would think that’s pretty alien
That is so good to know ... Likely at least a dozen, if not more, work through this " metamorphis" in Houston every year! Regardless, I suppose witnessing it is actually the very best part a true gardener can hope for! We love all that naturally intrigues!!
So, do you think that Texas is where everyone in the world lives? Even on the West Coast and here in Idaho I have never heard of such a thing. Things that happen in Texas are not a normal thing in the rest of the United States.
Right but having cool plants make the news should happen more often anyways I think. Even if it's just a somewhat common plant but a magnificent specimen.
That’s so nice they put it out there for everyone to enjoy. They may not have had room where they really wanted it to be, but I’ll take it as a kind gesture.
Dude here in the San Francisco Bay area we have loads of these My daughter had one that bloomed in her backyard last year. I had one that bloomed across the street from me a group of them alongside the railroad tracks that bloomed all the time. My grandmother had one in her yard and after living there for 50 years it bloomed for the first time it was massive 💜💙 they are really quite something when they grow up beside a telephone pole it makes for an interesting perspective 💜💙✌️
I live in Southern California, and see similar looking plants all over the place. And they grow these big stalks all the time. Some species die after the flowering, but other species send out stalks every year.
My lawn lady just gave me two of these, which she planted at the two front corners of my property. I just liked how they looked and she gave me hers...
We had one in our driveway landscaping when we lived in the county near Odessa TX. We moved but visited about 3 years later & drove by. It had already flowered, tipped over, dislodged most of the roots & blocked the driveway. Still kinda cool to see.
