Nice video Joe! Here in Italy you can find the Americana almost everywhere, easily on the rocks in front of the sea, and often in the gardens in its variegated form. I have a little collection with the americana variegata and the wild blue form, of course, and also Parryi, filifera schidigera, shaka zulu, toumeyana bella, potatorum shoji raijin, victoria reginae, lophanta quadricolor, attenuata. This last one, the swan neck agave, is a bit of an outsider in the group, being velvet leafed, pleasant to touch, and can get quite relevant dimensions, but it is so lovely... An absolute stunner which gives a tropical aspect to any garden. Guess what? I love agaves a lot! By the way, I would appreciate a similar video on the aloe genus, which I also love and grow. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hi Paolo, thanks so much for watching and for you wonderful and very interesting comments, really appreciated! So happy that you enjoyed the video! And it is not hard to see that you really love Agaves, haha, you have an amazing collection of them! Yes, you are right, I always love seeing the Agaves growing in so many places in Italy and other regions of the Mediterranen. Although not originally from there, they now have become a part of the native flora, amazing! Your velvet leaf agave sounds beautiful and really intriguing! Thanks for your interest and suggestion for a video on Aloe, I will indeed make one as there appears to be interest for this among quite a few viewers and subscribers! Sending you very best plant greetings to Italy, best wishes and happy growing of course!! 🙌☺️👍🙏🪴🪴🪴🌵🌿💚🙋♂️🏜🏜
Great video, Joe 😊 Weather hasn't been great here either, sunny days are rare haha. I've only got a couple of Agaves, might add some more to the collection next year, though. Thank you for sharing with us my friend. Have a wonderful day and upcoming weekend from Edith & myself and happy growing as always 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Thanks Daz, glad you liked the video. Yeah, the weather continues to be just terrible this end too. Almost non-stop rain and constantly super windy and temps around freezing. Cannot wait for the spring to arrive again, haha! Very best regards to you and Edith, best wishes and happy growing! 🙌☺️👍🪴🪴🪴🌵🌵🌵🌼🌺💚☀️😎🙋♂️
Thanks so much Ana, glad you liked the video, and also the Agave plants in my collection, much appreciated. Thanks for watching and as always for your awesome feedback and support Ana! Have a great week ahead! 🙌☺️👍🙏🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
Hi Joe! I love your Agave striata minima! While cactus can poke you, agaves can saw a nice gash in you! I have a couple Monacatha blue ribbons, a compact victoria reginae and an agave filifera that has very sharp ends. But like you, I've dedicated all the prime real estate to the cacti. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of agaves!
Hi Terry, haha I love the way you describe both our preferences for the cacti to sit on the PRIME real estate, haha, so true! But many an Agave now also claims the best running up real estate, haha! Very happy that you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! Thanks, glad you also liked my A. striata f. minima, i can definitely recommend that one! Best wishes and happy growing of course! 🙌😉👍🙏🪴🪴🪴🌵🌿☀️💚😎🙋♂️
Hey Justin, many thanks, really super that you found the video informative! Yeah, keeping them in relatively small, undersized pots and / or selecting the miniature types of species and cultivars is the way to go with these ...unless you have a huge yard in a suitable climate, haha! Best wishes and happy growing my friend! 🙌😉👍🙏🪴🪴🪴🌵💚☀️😎🙋♂️
That's a brilliant and very comprehensive video Joe! About a year ago I bought a number of Agave seeds as these are such beautiful plants. Success was mixed but I do now have a good number of baby agave plants, mostly species chosen for their small size or cold tolerance. Agave Americana grows well outside here, and this morning I was closely admiring a small wild colony growing on a very sheltered south-facing limestone cliff. They may all be offsets from an original plant but the sheer size of each plant is awe-inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing this video. 😀🌵💚
Thank you so much Donald, sounds like you have a wonderful collection of seed-grown Agaves now! And it's really cool that you have been selecting and growing them mainly for their small sizes and cold hardiness! It must be a really beautiful sight, those huge A. americana plants growing in the wild near you! I suppose northern Spain has a brilliant climate to grow many Agaves in, especially outdoors! Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely feedback and comments, as always much appreciated! Very best cactus and Agave greetings to you, take care and happy growing of course!! 🙏🙏🙋♂️🙌☺️👍🪴🪴🪴🌵🌺🌼💚☀️😎
I love your field of flowers so much ❤❤❤ I’m surprised that there are so many cleistocactus winteri cultivars available in Europe. Their blooms are stunning 😍. I tried to find Buma in the US, but couldn’t.😢
Aww, thank you Gundega, fantastic that you enjoyed all the blooms. Wishing you success in your search for Cleistocactus hybrids. I assume that specialist cactus nurseries would be offering them. Kind regards and best wishes! 🙌☺️👍🙏🌵🌵🌸🌼🌺💚☀️😎🏜🙋♂️
Thank you, Joe!. Tomorrow I'll receive my first agave, a Victoriæ Reginæ variagata and there you are, you uploaded an agave video. After watching your video now I feel more confident to start growing these beautiful plants. In my country you find a lot of agaves growing as part of arid gardens, also they used the Blue Agave as perimeter fences, which is awesome too. Also, I remember when I climbed one of our volcanoes, watching a lot of agaves growing almost on the summit where it is so arid and cold. Cool thing, I think. Thank you again! Love your videos!
Haha, sounds like perfect timing! So happy that you found the video useful and informative! Wow, that must be so cool to see those Agaves growing high up on the volcanoes! Best of luck and success with your new Agave victoria-reginae f. variegata, congratulations those are truly beautiful plants! Thanks for watching and really fantastic that you are enjoying my videos, a warm thank you! Greetings from my little cactus & succulent greenhouse in southern Germany to you in El Salvador, very best wishes and happy growing of course! 🙏☺️👍🙌🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
WOWSERS Joe :-D AWESOME video on Agave's and you have shared lots of amazing and detailed information on them and how to grow them, I really love Agave's and they really are incredible additions to a cactus collection, its so good that there are so many different varieties in size including the small growing compact ones to suit all growers, I overwinter mine in the polytunnel too, your Agave's really are BEAUTIFUL Joe, we really loved watching this wonderful and informative video on these awesome Agave stunners, thanks so much for sharing with us Joe, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Bavaria for a wonderful weekend XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon hi Lyn, thanks so much, great to read that you enjoyed the video and also that you like growing Agave together wirh your cacti too! Yeah, agree with you, it's especially the compact-growing ones that are most suitable for us to be growing! Amazing how diverse this genus is! Thanks for watching and for your wonderful comments and friendship - sending you and Hans lot's of plant greetings across to the beautiful Emerald Isle, enjoy your Saturday evening and rest of the weekend! 🙌🙏👍☺️🪴🪴🪴😅☀️🙋♂️
Haha, totally agree with you, they are indeed such cool and wonderful plants! Thanks for watching and so happy that you are enjoying the videos, awesome feedback, truly appreciated! 🙏🙏🙏☺️👍🙌🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
Great video Joe!!! I have a handful of these myself!! Yes, as a kid I remember one agave behind a friend's house that produced the bulbs. I was amazed at these ready to go plants!!! Just set and grow!!! U like my agaves because they are tough and I can store them under benches and other plants for the winter. Then I just put them out under our mimosa tree and they do great!! Yes you are right. If you want to keep them smaller, keep them in a smaller pot. Yes the asparagaceae is another interesting group. Other succulents related also!!! Thanks for sharing joe!Joe!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, out to Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪 have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!!✌️💖🌵🌿🌻🌷🌷🌹🌾🌸🌴🌱🍀💐🌳🏜😃👍 11:51
Thanks so much Clyde, really happy that you enjoyed the video! Yeah, the tiny, ready-to-go plantlets are very cool indeed. Fantastic that you remember seeing them as a kid! And as you also say, many Agaves are REALLY tough, which also makes them great plants to be growing in our collections! Sending you very best Agave greetings to Morris Park in the Ozarks and wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving! 🙋♂️🙏👍☺️🪴🪴🪴☀️💚🌵😉
Aww, thank you so much Subhash, very kind of you to say that! I'm really happy to read that you are enjoying the videos, thank you and much appreciated! Kind regards to you in India, best wishes and happy growing of course! 🙏🙏🙏☺️👍🙌🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
I live in the desert southwest of the US. Agave are my absolute favorite and I had a yard full of them. However, I lost the vast majority of them to the agave snout weevil. Keep an eye out!😢
Thanks so much Verlene, great to hear from you! Since my visit earlier in the year, I am a big fan of the flora & fauna of the Desert Southwest region of the U.S.! Fantastic to read that you can grow all your Agave outside in your yard, I wish I could do that too, haha! Sorry to hear about the Agave snout weevil destroying your plants, sounds terrible and really sad, indeed have read about it - as far as I know we don't have that one here yet. Thanks for watching and for your awesome comments! 🙌👍☺️🙏🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️🏜🏜🏜
I've got a few Agaves Joe 🙂 Well, I started off with a few and now I've got quite a few 😬 I drank a bottle of Tequila in 1982, woke up at 4am in the recovery position and when I got up I still couldn't walk 🙄 I bring mine into the tunnel over winter, although there are some large ones outside on the coast in Kent, we're on top of the North Downs where it gets a bit colder in the winter. Good video my friend, hope you have a lovely Saturday ☺☺🌵🌵
Hey Ziggy, great to hear you are growing quite a number of Agaves too. Ouch, indeed it's pretty potent stuff, Tequila is, and a whole bottle of it, not for the faint-hearted! Thanks for watching and glad you liked it my friend. Indeed I remember seeing quite a few places in southern and southwestern England where Agaves were succesfully being grown outside, also in the winters. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, happy Agave growing! 🪴🪴🪴🙌👍☺️🙏💚☀️🙋♂️
Great video! Agave brought me to this hobby. Now I'm more focused on cacti but I found that the types of cacti I like the most have a similar shape/rosette to agave. Ariocarpus, obregonia, strombocatus, tur.alonosoi ... So far, in my opinion, Agave white rhino is absolutely the most beautiful plant for me
Thanks very much, very happy that you liked the video! It's wonderful to hear that it was the Agaves that first caught your attention and brought you to our cactus growing hobby! And I can really relate, there are indeed exactly these types of cacti that are somewhat similar in appearance, they are so beautiful!! The white rhino Agave is truly beautiful, i fully agree with you! Thanks for watching and wishing you happy growing!🙏👍😉🙌🪴🪴🪴🌵💚☀️😎🙋♂️
Hey Mark! Thanks so much for watching and really super happy that you found the Agaves video useful and inspiring! Awesome and motivating feedback, truly appreciated! Best wishes and have a great weekend ahead! 🙌🙏☺️👍🌵🌵🪴🪴🌸🌼🌺🌼☀️😎💚🙋♂️
Thanks for all the information. Lovely to se that I have some, that you also have in your collection. I did't know they can grow pups at the flower heads. Thanks again, and happy growing. 🌵🌵🌵
Many thanks Palle, glad you found the video informative. Haha, indeed those little Agave plantlets (basically vegetative clones like root pups, just loads of them at the same time!) are quite a special feature and not so frequently seen. Thanks for watching and commenting. Enjoy your Saturday evening and also a relaxing Sunday, happy growing / dormancy! 🙌👍🙏☺️🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
Thank you Joe ~ a very helpful and informative video. You have a stunningly beautiful collection of Agaves! I leave a quite large Agave americana variegata in its pot in the garden over Winter here in London, as it's too big for indoors or my mini greenhouse. It survives with the loss of a few 'leaves' (which can freeze solid!), but recovers again in the Spring. The only thing I would add is keep the really sharp larger specimens out of reach of family pets. Great video :) .
Thanks so much Joanna, for watching and also your wonderful comments, as always much appreciated! Very happy that you found the video informative, thank you. Yes you are absolutely correct to point out that one really needs to watch out for our pets ( ...and young children!) when growing some of the Agave with super pointy and hard leaves, a real hazard! Your A. americana sounds fantastic and what an amazing way of growing such a beautiful plant outside in London! I wish I could do that too, haha, but our winters unfortunately just get way too cold here in Bavaria, southern Germany. But I think I will try growing a few supposedly super frost hardy ones outside under a roof next year. Sending very best plant greetings across the channel to London, England! Happy growing! 🙌☺️👍🙏🪴🪴🪴🌵💚☀️🙋♂️
Thanks for this very interesting and informative video! It really is fascinating with which ways nature came up with when it comes to propagating and ensuring the forth-living of the plants. I do not have plants of this genus in my collection (yet) but we in fact use them in some of the ornamental beds in Wilhelmshöhe as "center parts". What we also cultivate in our nursery are the well-known Euphorbia pulcherrimas (Poinsettias). They are displayed in the warm house compartment of the Schaugewächshaus and we have in fact some specimens that have already reached a considerable size and age. To be honest, it is pretty sad that most people just throw them away after the flowering period without even trying to cultivate them perennially. I have recently taken a young specimen home from our nursery and will of course try to cultivate it further after its flowering by giving it a kind of dormancy period in Spring without watering and then repotting it und pruning it back. By the way: Congratulations for surpassing the milestone of 4000 subscribers, well deserved! :)
Hi Jacob, excellent to read your wonderful comments and updates, always so nice to hear back from you! Glad you found the video informative and interesting! Haha, I had to chuckle when I read your comments about E. pulcherima - you are completely correct with your observations, 99% of them are simply thrown away, unfortunately. So it's brilliant to read about you growing them after their blooms. Indeed, they can be "reset" again for the following season, triggered by less light and cooler temperatures. That's how the horticulturalists do it too. Thanks again for all your interesting and kind comments and wishing you a wonderful Saturday evening and relaxing Sunday! 🙏☺️👍🙌🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
Thank you for your video. My son and I recently started growing cacti and succulents. They are surprisingly beautiful. This video was very informative.
@aprilmcalister1869 thank you very much for watching and for your wonderful feedback! I am really happy that you found the video informative! Fantastic to read that you and your son have joined the awesome community of cactus & succulent enthusiasts and hobbyists, that is so cool! Wishing you both lot's of fun and successes with your plants and new hobby! Happy growing!! 👍😉🙌🌵🪴🌵🌿🌺🌼🌸💚☀️😎🙋♂️
Hi joe,i ve agave stricta,regina victoria, titanota, i usually give water 1 time in 1 month,i ' m wrong? I ve too nigra end filiera in pot but outside in the cold and i give water too, it seems they look good
That is a nice selection of Agaves that you have, Giuliano. I don't know the climate at your location, but it sounds like your plants are happy wirh your choices of location and watering - and that's the most important! I am curious: how cold does the outside temperature get in your location during the winter months? Greetings to Italy and have a wonderful weekend! 🙌☺️👍🌵🪴🪴🪴🌿☀️💚😎🙋♂️
@cactusjoe hi joe,here in North of italy we have now - 3 in the night and 5 during all rest of day,agaves are covered by light fabric, I checked yesterday, they seem to be all right.
Nice video Joe! Here in Italy you can find the Americana almost everywhere, easily on the rocks in front of the sea, and often in the gardens in its variegated form.
I have a little collection with the americana variegata and the wild blue form, of course, and also Parryi, filifera schidigera, shaka zulu, toumeyana bella, potatorum shoji raijin, victoria reginae, lophanta quadricolor, attenuata. This last one, the swan neck agave, is a bit of an outsider in the group, being velvet leafed, pleasant to touch, and can get quite relevant dimensions, but it is so lovely... An absolute stunner which gives a tropical aspect to any garden.
Guess what? I love agaves a lot!
By the way, I would appreciate a similar video on the aloe genus, which I also love and grow.
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Hi Paolo, thanks so much for watching and for you wonderful and very interesting comments, really appreciated! So happy that you enjoyed the video! And it is not hard to see that you really love Agaves, haha, you have an amazing collection of them! Yes, you are right, I always love seeing the Agaves growing in so many places in Italy and other regions of the Mediterranen. Although not originally from there, they now have become a part of the native flora, amazing! Your velvet leaf agave sounds beautiful and really intriguing! Thanks for your interest and suggestion for a video on Aloe, I will indeed make one as there appears to be interest for this among quite a few viewers and subscribers! Sending you very best plant greetings to Italy, best wishes and happy growing of course!! 🙌☺️👍🙏🪴🪴🪴🌵🌿💚🙋♂️🏜🏜
Great information
Thanks Mark, glad you enjoyed the video and found it informative! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏👍☺️🪴🪴☀️🙋♂️
@cactusjoe I really enjoy your videos!
Thanks so much Mark, really appreciated! 🙌☺️🙏🙏👍🪴🌵🪴🌵🌿🌺🌼🌸💚☀️😎🙋♂️
Thanks Joe
Thank you for watching and commenting! 🙏👍☺️🪴🪴🪴☀️🙋♂️
Great video, Joe 😊 Weather hasn't been great here either, sunny days are rare haha. I've only got a couple of Agaves, might add some more to the collection next year, though. Thank you for sharing with us my friend. Have a wonderful day and upcoming weekend from Edith & myself and happy growing as always 🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
Thanks Daz, glad you liked the video. Yeah, the weather continues to be just terrible this end too. Almost non-stop rain and constantly super windy and temps around freezing. Cannot wait for the spring to arrive again, haha! Very best regards to you and Edith, best wishes and happy growing! 🙌☺️👍🪴🪴🪴🌵🌵🌵🌼🌺💚☀️😎🙋♂️
I didn’t realize you had so many agave in your collection! Beautiful Joe and awesome video
Thanks so much Ana, glad you liked the video, and also the Agave plants in my collection, much appreciated. Thanks for watching and as always for your awesome feedback and support Ana! Have a great week ahead! 🙌☺️👍🙏🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
Hi Joe! I love your Agave striata minima! While cactus can poke you, agaves can saw a nice gash in you! I have a couple Monacatha blue ribbons, a compact victoria reginae and an agave filifera that has very sharp ends. But like you, I've dedicated all the prime real estate to the cacti. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of agaves!
Hi Terry, haha I love the way you describe both our preferences for the cacti to sit on the PRIME real estate, haha, so true! But many an Agave now also claims the best running up real estate, haha! Very happy that you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! Thanks, glad you also liked my A. striata f. minima, i can definitely recommend that one! Best wishes and happy growing of course! 🙌😉👍🙏🪴🪴🪴🌵🌿☀️💚😎🙋♂️
Amazing video! It was really informative. I didn't know you could keep some agave species relatively small. Now I need to try it!
Hey Justin, many thanks, really super that you found the video informative! Yeah, keeping them in relatively small, undersized pots and / or selecting the miniature types of species and cultivars is the way to go with these ...unless you have a huge yard in a suitable climate, haha! Best wishes and happy growing my friend! 🙌😉👍🙏🪴🪴🪴🌵💚☀️😎🙋♂️
That's a brilliant and very comprehensive video Joe! About a year ago I bought a number of Agave seeds as these are such beautiful plants. Success was mixed but I do now have a good number of baby agave plants, mostly species chosen for their small size or cold tolerance. Agave Americana grows well outside here, and this morning I was closely admiring a small wild colony growing on a very sheltered south-facing limestone cliff. They may all be offsets from an original plant but the sheer size of each plant is awe-inspiring.
Thank you so much for sharing this video. 😀🌵💚
Thank you so much Donald, sounds like you have a wonderful collection of seed-grown Agaves now! And it's really cool that you have been selecting and growing them mainly for their small sizes and cold hardiness! It must be a really beautiful sight, those huge A. americana plants growing in the wild near you! I suppose northern Spain has a brilliant climate to grow many Agaves in, especially outdoors! Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely feedback and comments, as always much appreciated! Very best cactus and Agave greetings to you, take care and happy growing of course!! 🙏🙏🙋♂️🙌☺️👍🪴🪴🪴🌵🌺🌼💚☀️😎
I love your field of flowers so much ❤❤❤ I’m surprised that there are so many cleistocactus winteri cultivars available in Europe. Their blooms are stunning 😍. I tried to find Buma in the US, but couldn’t.😢
Aww, thank you Gundega, fantastic that you enjoyed all the blooms. Wishing you success in your search for Cleistocactus hybrids. I assume that specialist cactus nurseries would be offering them. Kind regards and best wishes! 🙌☺️👍🙏🌵🌵🌸🌼🌺💚☀️😎🏜🙋♂️
Thank you, Joe!. Tomorrow I'll receive my first agave, a Victoriæ Reginæ variagata and there you are, you uploaded an agave video. After watching your video now I feel more confident to start growing these beautiful plants.
In my country you find a lot of agaves growing as part of arid gardens, also they used the Blue Agave as perimeter fences, which is awesome too.
Also, I remember when I climbed one of our volcanoes, watching a lot of agaves growing almost on the summit where it is so arid and cold. Cool thing, I think.
Thank you again! Love your videos!
Haha, sounds like perfect timing! So happy that you found the video useful and informative! Wow, that must be so cool to see those Agaves growing high up on the volcanoes! Best of luck and success with your new Agave victoria-reginae f. variegata, congratulations those are truly beautiful plants! Thanks for watching and really fantastic that you are enjoying my videos, a warm thank you!
Greetings from my little cactus & succulent greenhouse in southern Germany to you in El Salvador, very best wishes and happy growing of course! 🙏☺️👍🙌🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
WOWSERS Joe :-D AWESOME video on Agave's and you have shared lots of amazing and detailed information on them and how to grow them, I really love Agave's and they really are incredible additions to a cactus collection, its so good that there are so many different varieties in size including the small growing compact ones to suit all growers, I overwinter mine in the polytunnel too, your Agave's really are BEAUTIFUL Joe, we really loved watching this wonderful and informative video on these awesome Agave stunners, thanks so much for sharing with us Joe, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Bavaria for a wonderful weekend XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon hi Lyn, thanks so much, great to read that you enjoyed the video and also that you like growing Agave together wirh your cacti too! Yeah, agree with you, it's especially the compact-growing ones that are most suitable for us to be growing! Amazing how diverse this genus is! Thanks for watching and for your wonderful comments and friendship - sending you and Hans lot's of plant greetings across to the beautiful Emerald Isle, enjoy your Saturday evening and rest of the weekend! 🙌🙏👍☺️🪴🪴🪴😅☀️🙋♂️
Very enjoyable, always enjoy your videos. Agaves are so cool! 🌱
Haha, totally agree with you, they are indeed such cool and wonderful plants! Thanks for watching and so happy that you are enjoying the videos, awesome feedback, truly appreciated! 🙏🙏🙏☺️👍🙌🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
Great video Joe!!! I have a handful of these myself!! Yes, as a kid I remember one agave behind a friend's house that produced the bulbs. I was amazed at these ready to go plants!!! Just set and grow!!! U like my agaves because they are tough and I can store them under benches and other plants for the winter. Then I just put them out under our mimosa tree and they do great!! Yes you are right. If you want to keep them smaller, keep them in a smaller pot. Yes the asparagaceae is another interesting group. Other succulents related also!!! Thanks for sharing joe!Joe!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, out to Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪 have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!!✌️💖🌵🌿🌻🌷🌷🌹🌾🌸🌴🌱🍀💐🌳🏜😃👍 11:51
Thanks so much Clyde, really happy that you enjoyed the video! Yeah, the tiny, ready-to-go plantlets are very cool indeed. Fantastic that you remember seeing them as a kid! And as you also say, many Agaves are REALLY tough, which also makes them great plants to be growing in our collections! Sending you very best Agave greetings to Morris Park in the Ozarks and wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving! 🙋♂️🙏👍☺️🪴🪴🪴☀️💚🌵😉
Very nice way of expressing each and every information in a really pricising way, thanks. Enjoy growing your cacti and succulents.❤❤❤
Aww, thank you so much Subhash, very kind of you to say that! I'm really happy to read that you are enjoying the videos, thank you and much appreciated! Kind regards to you in India, best wishes and happy growing of course! 🙏🙏🙏☺️👍🙌🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
Thanks it is useful for me ❤
Excellent to read that you found the video useful, thanks very much for watching and for your wonderful feedback! 🙏👍☺️🙌🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
I live in the desert southwest of the US. Agave are my absolute favorite and I had a yard full of them. However, I lost the vast majority of them to the agave snout weevil. Keep an eye out!😢
Thanks so much Verlene, great to hear from you! Since my visit earlier in the year, I am a big fan of the flora & fauna of the Desert Southwest region of the U.S.! Fantastic to read that you can grow all your Agave outside in your yard, I wish I could do that too, haha! Sorry to hear about the Agave snout weevil destroying your plants, sounds terrible and really sad, indeed have read about it - as far as I know we don't have that one here yet. Thanks for watching and for your awesome comments! 🙌👍☺️🙏🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️🏜🏜🏜
I've got a few Agaves Joe 🙂 Well, I started off with a few and now I've got quite a few 😬 I drank a bottle of Tequila in 1982, woke up at 4am in the recovery position and when I got up I still couldn't walk 🙄 I bring mine into the tunnel over winter, although there are some large ones outside on the coast in Kent, we're on top of the North Downs where it gets a bit colder in the winter. Good video my friend, hope you have a lovely Saturday ☺☺🌵🌵
Hey Ziggy, great to hear you are growing quite a number of Agaves too. Ouch, indeed it's pretty potent stuff, Tequila is, and a whole bottle of it, not for the faint-hearted! Thanks for watching and glad you liked it my friend. Indeed I remember seeing quite a few places in southern and southwestern England where Agaves were succesfully being grown outside, also in the winters. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, happy Agave growing! 🪴🪴🪴🙌👍☺️🙏💚☀️🙋♂️
Great video! Agave brought me to this hobby. Now I'm more focused on cacti but I found that the types of cacti I like the most have a similar shape/rosette to agave. Ariocarpus, obregonia, strombocatus, tur.alonosoi ... So far, in my opinion, Agave white rhino is absolutely the most beautiful plant for me
Thanks very much, very happy that you liked the video! It's wonderful to hear that it was the Agaves that first caught your attention and brought you to our cactus growing hobby! And I can really relate, there are indeed exactly these types of cacti that are somewhat similar in appearance, they are so beautiful!! The white rhino Agave is truly beautiful, i fully agree with you! Thanks for watching and wishing you happy growing!🙏👍😉🙌🪴🪴🪴🌵💚☀️😎🙋♂️
Great video...love the shirt too
@@dkstott29 thanks Dave, really good to read that you enjoyed the video, and also, haha, that you liked the cactus shirt! 🙏🙌☺️👍🪴🪴🪴☀️🙋♂️
maybe planning to feature aloe in the future?🍀
Possibly. Would like to see the level of interest for this one first. So far somewhat limited it seems. Thanks for your interest and suggestion.
I’d also like to see a video of yours about Aloes! 🤗
Hola están hermosos los agave tengo 4 variedad gracias por compartir sus conocimientos 🌵
Thank you so much for your interest and for your wonderful feedback, much appreciated! Happy Agave growing! 🙌👍☺️🙏🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
@@cactusjoeMuchas gracias saludos 🇺🇾🌵
Inspiring Joe and most helpful as always.
Hey Mark! Thanks so much for watching and really super happy that you found the Agaves video useful and inspiring! Awesome and motivating feedback, truly appreciated! Best wishes and have a great weekend ahead! 🙌🙏☺️👍🌵🌵🪴🪴🌸🌼🌺🌼☀️😎💚🙋♂️
Thanks for all the information. Lovely to se that I have some, that you also have in your collection. I did't know they can grow pups at the flower heads.
Thanks again, and happy growing. 🌵🌵🌵
Many thanks Palle, glad you found the video informative. Haha, indeed those little Agave plantlets (basically vegetative clones like root pups, just loads of them at the same time!) are quite a special feature and not so frequently seen. Thanks for watching and commenting. Enjoy your Saturday evening and also a relaxing Sunday, happy growing / dormancy! 🙌👍🙏☺️🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
Thank you Joe ~ a very helpful and informative video. You have a stunningly beautiful collection of Agaves! I leave a quite large Agave americana variegata in its pot in the garden over Winter here in London, as it's too big for indoors or my mini greenhouse. It survives with the loss of a few 'leaves' (which can freeze solid!), but recovers again in the Spring. The only thing I would add is keep the really sharp larger specimens out of reach of family pets. Great video :)
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Thanks so much Joanna, for watching and also your wonderful comments, as always much appreciated! Very happy that you found the video informative, thank you. Yes you are absolutely correct to point out that one really needs to watch out for our pets ( ...and young children!) when growing some of the Agave with super pointy and hard leaves, a real hazard! Your A. americana sounds fantastic and what an amazing way of growing such a beautiful plant outside in London! I wish I could do that too, haha, but our winters unfortunately just get way too cold here in Bavaria, southern Germany. But I think I will try growing a few supposedly super frost hardy ones outside under a roof next year. Sending very best plant greetings across the channel to London, England! Happy growing! 🙌☺️👍🙏🪴🪴🪴🌵💚☀️🙋♂️
@@cactusjoe It's always a joy watching your videos Joe!
Thanks for this very interesting and informative video!
It really is fascinating with which ways nature came up with when it comes to propagating and ensuring the forth-living of the plants.
I do not have plants of this genus in my collection (yet) but we in fact use them in some of the ornamental beds in Wilhelmshöhe as "center parts".
What we also cultivate in our nursery are the well-known Euphorbia pulcherrimas (Poinsettias). They are displayed in the warm house compartment of the Schaugewächshaus and we have in fact some specimens that have already reached a considerable size and age. To be honest, it is pretty sad that most people just throw them away after the flowering period without even trying to cultivate them perennially. I have recently taken a young specimen home from our nursery and will of course try to cultivate it further after its flowering by giving it a kind of dormancy period in Spring without watering and then repotting it und pruning it back.
By the way: Congratulations for surpassing the milestone of 4000 subscribers, well deserved! :)
Hi Jacob, excellent to read your wonderful comments and updates, always so nice to hear back from you! Glad you found the video informative and interesting! Haha, I had to chuckle when I read your comments about E. pulcherima - you are completely correct with your observations, 99% of them are simply thrown away, unfortunately. So it's brilliant to read about you growing them after their blooms. Indeed, they can be "reset" again for the following season, triggered by less light and cooler temperatures. That's how the horticulturalists do it too. Thanks again for all your interesting and kind comments and wishing you a wonderful Saturday evening and relaxing Sunday! 🙏☺️👍🙌🪴🪴🪴💚☀️🙋♂️
Thank you for your video.
My son and I recently started growing cacti and succulents. They are surprisingly beautiful.
This video was very informative.
@aprilmcalister1869 thank you very much for watching and for your wonderful feedback! I am really happy that you found the video informative! Fantastic to read that you and your son have joined the awesome community of cactus & succulent enthusiasts and hobbyists, that is so cool! Wishing you both lot's of fun and successes with your plants and new hobby! Happy growing!! 👍😉🙌🌵🪴🌵🌿🌺🌼🌸💚☀️😎🙋♂️
Hi joe,i ve agave stricta,regina victoria, titanota, i usually give water 1 time in 1 month,i ' m wrong? I ve too nigra end filiera in pot but outside in the cold and i give water too, it seems they look good
Titanota stricta and regina victoria in my batroom,no outside
1 time in 1 month now in winter
That is a nice selection of Agaves that you have, Giuliano. I don't know the climate at your location, but it sounds like your plants are happy wirh your choices of location and watering - and that's the most important! I am curious: how cold does the outside temperature get in your location during the winter months? Greetings to Italy and have a wonderful weekend! 🙌☺️👍🌵🪴🪴🪴🌿☀️💚😎🙋♂️
@cactusjoe hi joe,here in North of italy we have now - 3 in the night and 5 during all rest of day,agaves are covered by light fabric, I checked yesterday, they seem to be all right.
@cactusjoe thanks joe for your feedback, I hope you have good weekend