When Your Agave Blooms: Cautions, Removal, 20 Kinds, How to Start Seeds and Bulbils

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If you have an agave, sooner or later you'll deal with a bloom that signals the end of its life. The flower stalk can be a bonanza if you're into propagation. Otherwise, it’s a fascinating manifestation that also may cause problems.
In this video and in the corresponding article on my site, you'll find expert advice that includes dead-agave removal and cautions, plus 20+ agaves in bloom (to help you ID yours and know what to expect), and how to start new plants from seeds and bulbils.
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-- "Your Agave is Blooming - Now What?" debraleebaldwin.com/succulent...
--"Agave Dermatitis: How Harmful is Agave Sap? Are You Susceptible?" debraleebaldwin.com/debra-lee...
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-- Agave americana Bloom and Removal (4:44)
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@QueenofSucculents 11 месяцев назад

Have a question on ANYTHING to do with succulents? Go to debraleebaldwin.com and browse the menu or use the Search bar. Btw, my site is not monetized---no annoying pop-up ads. It's my gift to my followers and the culmination of my career as a horticulturist/photojournalist specializing in succulents. You'll find 100+ pages of tips and ideas; thousands of photos and must-know facts for specific varieties; curated design ideas for gardens, landscapes and containers; interviews with experts; seasonal info; and much more. Use the site as a research tool that also is entertaining---the same goal as my RU-vid channel. Q's welcome!

@ismaelcervantes4194 Месяц назад

I was trying to find a video on how to replant a bulbin (i hope im using the right terminology lol) cause i didnt want to harm it but im glad i can just stick it in dirt and wait! Im so exited :)

@BracesandBoots1 9 месяцев назад

Nice informative video, thanks. I love that timber built greenhouse you visited.

@susitorre-bueno9009 3 года назад

Excellent video - thanks so much! My octopus agave is blooming now - I have four 10' bloom stalks covered with bulbils. This info is exactly what I needed.

@QueenofSucculents 3 года назад

I'm so glad! Thanks for letting me know, Susi.

@giribpai 3 года назад

Thanks for the wonderful video. I enjoyed watching it and also liked the music. You gave all information about Agave flowering. The bit with you walking away with an Agave inflorescence stalk was apt.

@QueenofSucculents 3 года назад

Thank you

@alabamatropicals506 2 года назад

Another superb agave video! Great music to go with it! Thanks again for the help Debra

@QueenofSucculents 2 года назад

Really appreciate the comment, AT!

@VeriousSmithIII Год назад

Very fascinating. Thank you for the video 🎉

@debmccorkle4845 10 месяцев назад

I appreciate the insight she could give me I can’t seem to find anyone on RU-vid that can take me from the stock to harvesting. See that’s the process that I want to discover.

@QueenofSucculents 5 месяцев назад

From the stalk to harvesting the seeds? I did do a seed-starting video with nurseryman/grower Aaron Ryan several years ago at Succulent Gardens nursery. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ecpchjuy1fM.htmlsi=jGkRVOZNL3y9Unau Thing is, most agaves are super easy to start from pups and bulbils, so seeds tend to be "why bother?" But I realize not every agave can be propped vegetatively, nor is everyone able to access mature plants in order to harvest offsets. I'm acquainted with breeders, and will see what I can do to fill the gap. Thanks for asking!

@debmccorkle4845 5 месяцев назад

Today I am taking the pods that I have collected last year in the Texas canyon and I am trying to sprout them in sprouting pots

@debmccorkle4845 5 месяцев назад

@@QueenofSucculentsExcellent, thank you so much. You see I am not a stay at home gardener. I travel for a living. I happened to be traveling through the Texas Canyon in the Sonoran Desert and I noticed these incredible plants. I had to stop and take a picture and try and research until I might discover what these symmetrical beautiful flowers on stalks were. I ask a few gardeners I know and I looked up native plants of Sonora desert. Then after I felt closer to an identification I wanted to walk around one to see if I could find any pieces lying around I could take for a positive identification. This started an entire love affair with this Mescal Agave.

@debmccorkle4845 5 месяцев назад

@@QueenofSucculentsI couldn’t dig up pups at the time because the plants didn’t belong to me and I was simply fascinated with learning everything I could about them. From my experience traveling the entire United States.. I hadn’t noticed these in any other locations. Recently, I have discovered a few in California. I started to investigate the possibility of growing a few in the Mojave desert in my yard. This started my search for growing a few plants from these seed pods I found on the ground around the plants as the season moved on. It took several months for the pods to naturally split open to send the seeds into the wind. I kept the seeds in envelopes with the location, date collected and specific plant gps coordinate. I am interested to revisit next year to see the offspring. I have a dozen sprout pots going now at home in the Mojave desert. Thank you so much for your link. I will watch it after meetings today.

@moomoon1410 Месяц назад

Amazing. Thank you.

@wendyw253 Год назад

Mahalo for the helpful info!

@khunaspix 3 года назад

very nice clip.

@EW-gj5nn 3 года назад

Great video! My oldest Blue Glow is in flower right now and I am sad and excited at the same time.

@QueenofSucculents 3 года назад

Yep. Bittersweet.

@gzusv2182 2 года назад

I love these agave videos. Thank you. ❤

@QueenofSucculents Год назад

Glad you like them!

@moosepotato420 2 года назад

I really enjoy your videos and website.

@QueenofSucculents Год назад

Glad you like them!

@debmccorkle4845 10 месяцев назад

So do you plant isn’t sticking the new plant off the stock or is it a pod or has he done something to sprout to see prior to sticky mats in those parts? I can’t see what the process is to get to the dirt from the stock is what I need a missing.

@QueenofSucculents 3 года назад

Have you dealt with this? Some people get excited. Others, not so much, LOL.

@jdt_skincareaddict 3 года назад

Wow! Thank you for this very enlivening upload. 😍🥰😃 Hello Debra , my agaves viz: lopantha quadri color and Americana haven't bloomed yet.

@QueenofSucculents 3 года назад

'Quadricolor' must take a while. Maybe it doesn't feel the need to bloom because it offsets so prolifically.

@jdt_skincareaddict 3 года назад

@@QueenofSucculents Oh I see. It really does give off pups a lot. That probably takes away a lot of energy. Thank you for sharing this to me 🥰🙏🏻✨☺️Take care always!

@debmccorkle4845 10 месяцев назад

These plants are gorgeous and I had one in my yard that was probably 3‘ x 3 or 4 feet, but I sold that house and I wanted another one since then so I frequently travel through the Texas Canyon in Arizona, where they grow natural wild and I see them in bloom right now And there are some areas that I could walk out and shake the stocks and maybe harvest some pods but I don’t really understand the process of extracting this feed from the hot sun of the pods are brown and dried up. Some of them seem to of popped open and their seeds are already gone and the pods are Like a fruit or a green type pear and then there are also times that are brown and dried up and closed and then there are pods that have open and there is hardest wood Ranboo and the seeds are gone from those, so I don’t see any pot around the plant so I wanted to harvest some of the seed pods but I didn’t know if checking the stock and having the pods phone lol I’m trying to harvest seeds from that would be successful or not

@QueenofSucculents 5 месяцев назад

I hope to do on a video on agave seed propagation. Stay tuned!

@debmccorkle4845 10 месяцев назад

Debra, Thank you for your kind reply. I used talk to text because I am a driver. I read my question and realized it did’t make much sense. My apology. I will try again.. ty.. i found a huge 40 foot stalk half pods dropped off or open.. so i picked up some off the ground and i shook the stalk to see if anymore would fall off. I collected a few dozen pods. Now a week later the green pods that were the size of my thumb have now turned dark brown and appear to be drying. I believe it is a Century Plant (Agave). What would my next step be to harvest seeds? Do i wait for pods to burst open themselves?

@QueenofSucculents 5 месяцев назад

Yes, you can wait until the pods open on their own, or until they feel and look dry, and rattle when shook.

@happydays0220 Год назад

👍

@lokeelee 3 года назад

Last October, a neighbor gifted me a dozen tiny Octopus Agave bulbils. I have them planted in pots in an inside holding area. About how long will it take for them to mature enough to be planted outside? It sure seems like they are growing very slowly... Thanks in advance!

@elstankydank3815 3 года назад

You want them to have established roots then they can be planted outside as long as you climatise them slowly to the sun.

@lr2858 2 года назад

Thank you for this! We have a Whale's Tongue Agave that has a spike. We will be so sad for it to die will be harvesting some babies to put in it's place!

@QueenofSucculents 2 года назад

Unfortunately Agave guiengola is one of those that tends to bloom-out early. 😔

@nixzzlucifer1293 2 года назад

Hello, just watch the video and thank you for uploading this video, it's very helpful. May i know is the mother plant die after harvesting the baby agave? Because i have one here, but i'm afraid to cut. Thank you in advance.

@QueenofSucculents 2 года назад

Hi -- If you can remove the pup without damaging the mother plant, it should be fine.

@wereviewstuff9544 2 года назад

This is so interesting! We planted blue agave and Caribbean agave about 5 years ago. Today I noticed a flower spike in the large Caribbean agave that is in our sunny hot South West Florida garden. We head north in a few weeks so I doubt we will see the whole process. I wonder if any babies will be present when we come back in 6 months? Should we leave it be or saw off the stalk? Thanks

@QueenofSucculents 2 года назад

If you cut the bloom stalk of Agave angustifolia back as far as you can now, before you leave, the plant will probably look fine when you get back. It's one of the few agaves (that I'm aware of) that doing this delays its death.

@kiwibenwee 2 года назад

@@QueenofSucculents Thank you for the advice. We will saw it off!

@ms-kl9jc 2 года назад

I have two agaves blooming now. The first to go was the last of our three octopus agaves, which will give us lots of babies. The second is a dasylirion (is this the same as an agave gemini.... featured in this video? looks exactly the same). I was not expecting that one to go. I've had a time lapse camera on it for the past 3 weeks or so.

@QueenofSucculents 2 года назад

You'll be happy to know that dasylirions, though related to agaves, don't die after flowering.

@zionlee175 3 года назад

What’s the agave with yellow stripes name in the end of the video? It looks very beautiful!

@QueenofSucculents 3 года назад

Agave americana 'Marginata'

@annachavez7526 3 года назад

Is this process similar to an aloe's inflow? I expected my aloe to die but it is still goingna year later!

@QueenofSucculents 3 года назад

Aloes are perennial, meaning they bloom yearly. Agaves are monocarpic, meaning they bloom once in their lifetime.

@user-ry3ed3cc9c Год назад

I have a friend that had a agave plant that bloomed and died off. They gave me seed pods that are still green? Did they cut them too soon? Are the pods good to allow the seeds to dry properly inside? How do I propagate the seeds? I appreciate any help with my questions as I do want to plant the seeds but don't know if they are still good or green inside and don't want to cut the pods while green if I shouldn't. Thank you.

@QueenofSucculents Год назад

The pods need to be mature for the seeds to have the best chance. Set them aside and let them dry, and if they split open, they may be viable. If they wither and don't open, probably not. If you have plenty, you have nothing to lose by experimenting: Go ahead and open some pots and plant the seeds, and let a few others dry before doing so.

@BreakFastBurritoHolmes Год назад

Hi, I enjoyed your video, thanks. Question- I have a 13 year old Blue Weber Agave just starting to bloom. Can I make a batch of Tequila just off 1 pina? If so, can it be from the plant after it produces seed from the blooms, or should I harvest now?

@QueenofSucculents Год назад

Hi Barney -- See my article: debraleebaldwin.com/succulent-plants/want-to-make-tequila-or-mezcal-from-your-agaves/

@BreakFastBurritoHolmes Год назад

@@QueenofSucculents Thanks very much Debra!

@Blue2crows 4 месяца назад

My octopus is getting ready to bloom.

@QueenofSucculents 4 месяца назад

You can start a zillion more from the bulbils that form along the stalk!

@simsim5919 Год назад

I'd like to know if you can replant the stem if it flowered? Cut the stem.of the plant and replant to grow roots? ( not the stalk of flower)

@QueenofSucculents Год назад

No, the flower stem won't take root. However, offsets and/or seeds that form along it may root where they fall.

@simsim5919 Год назад

@@QueenofSucculents hi Thankyou but I meant the stem of the plant? not the flower stem

@QueenofSucculents Год назад

@@simsim5919 No, agaves die after flowering.

@getrealcash 2 года назад

Is it safe to burn agave stalk wood? Thank you

@QueenofSucculents 2 года назад

I've never heard that it isn't.

@paulkeys175 8 месяцев назад

Have yet to find a video on how to kill them without a bulldozer. I have three acres overgrown with them in Queensland Australia. Obviously started out as potplants that went wild after this town was abandoned 100 yeas ago.

@QueenofSucculents 8 месяцев назад

What a shame! They do eat real estate, given the opportunity and climate. Wait until agave snout weevil arrives. It'll take 'em out for you.

@cindyaceves9318 Год назад

Do all agaves bloom?

@QueenofSucculents Год назад

Yes. All plants bloom, even molds. All living things are hard-wired to propagate themselves.

@QueenofSucculents Год назад

For more on what to do when an agave blooms, plus a gallery of varieties with flower stalks, go to debraleebaldwin.com/succulent-how-to/your-agaves-blooming-now-what/ Want more on growing and selecting agaves for your garden? See my books and surf my site: debraleebaldwin.com/?s=Agave