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Message:	[quote author=bixaorellana board=gardening thread=2180 post=128916 time=1328291148]I took pics of some really magnificent flowering agave yesterday. Lemme process them & I'll put them up. Even when you don't post pictures, Mick, we know you're always willing to help with comments, IDs, and pointers. :-* [/quote] Expand
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Posted by cheerypeabrain on Jan 22, 2012, 9:49pm

Wow Bixa, I love the complexity of the fleshy buds....they are so attractive.

I spent a happy afternoon unpacking a parcel from Mickthecactus full of lovely cuttings....haworthas, gasterias and similar. I've potted them all up and they're being nursed in a heated propagator while the weather's cold....I'm a very lucky girl

Posted by mich64 on Jan 23, 2012, 1:55am

Ah Cheery, how absolutely kind of Mick to send you that box, I think that is such a friendly think to do!

Have fun watching them mature!
Cheers!
Mich

Posted by mickthecactus on Jan 23, 2012, 10:11am

Those are proper cacti Bixa.

Posted by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2012, 5:36pm

Aren't they nifty & waxy, Cheery?

Mick is indeed a prince among men, but his darlings certainly went to a good home.

Ain't they big ole thangs, Mick?!

Posted by mickthecactus on Jan 24, 2012, 9:40am

Jan 23, 2012, 5:36pm, bixaorellana wrote:

Aren't they nifty & waxy, Cheery?

Mick is indeed a prince among men, but his darlings certainly went to a good home.

Ain't they big ole thangs, Mick?!

They are indeed enormous Bixa.

Posted by rikita on Jan 24, 2012, 11:22am

Posted by mickthecactus on Jan 24, 2012, 1:26pm

A beauty Rikita!

Posted by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2012, 3:43pm

Super-duper!

Posted by rikita on Jan 24, 2012, 9:18pm

thanks... it is one of the cacti that my brother is "storing" at my mom's... she keeps complaining that they take up a lot of space and he should pick them up, but of course they look much nicer in the sunlight of her garden than in his dark appartment...

Posted by mickthecactus on Feb 2, 2012, 7:54pm

Apologies for adding nothing for a while. It really is the deadest of dead times. 6 weeks and they'll start waking up.

did I ever post pictures of the 2010 Show?

Posted by bixaorellana on Feb 3, 2012, 5:45pm

I took pics of some really magnificent flowering agave yesterday. Lemme process them & I'll put them up.

Even when you don't post pictures, Mick, we know you're always willing to help with comments, IDs, and pointers. :-*

Posted by mickthecactus on Feb 4, 2012, 10:07am

Just checked. I have posted the show pics already.....

Bixa, do you still have that beautiful S. beneckei on the first page?

Posted by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2012, 7:42pm

Yep. I recently re-potted it so it could have some fresh & better dirt. It has very little root system, so it went back in the same pot, although I removed all the other stuff that had been stuck in there when I moved. It's 45" tall now and has been in too much shade, so needs to be gradually introduced to more sunlight.

Posted by bixaorellana on Feb 9, 2012, 6:52pm

These were taken a week ago in front of Sto. Domingo. The pair in the first three pictures is the pair shown in the eye-fooling "Shadows & Silhouettes" picture.

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Posted by mickthecactus on Feb 10, 2012, 2:48pm

They are truly magnificent.

Posted by tod2 on Feb 10, 2012, 2:59pm

I can't wait for my agaves to send up a 'rocket' like that!

In the background all covered in pods is a Flamboyant tree???

Posted by bixaorellana on Feb 10, 2012, 4:59pm

True, Mick -- they're the flowering plant for which the word "stately" must have been invented.

Do you think yours are ready to bloom, Tod?

Yes, indeed those are flamboyant trees. I need to dig out some other pictures I took of them. As you see, the ones in the photo are fine, but there are two out of the picture that appear to be dead or dying.

Posted by mickthecactus on Feb 10, 2012, 5:09pm

Hard to believe but I've flowered the same Agave twice.......

Posted by mickthecactus on Feb 14, 2012, 1:00pm

Here's a recent couple of not that spectacular pictures-

Alo jucunda-

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Aloe peckii - my picture doesn't really convey the lovely leaf colouring.

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Posted by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2012, 2:41pm

Mick, when you said you've flowered the same agave twice, what did you mean? Was it an agave that flowered & did not die back?

Re: your latest pics -- they are so spectacular! I don't know either of those aloes. They're both lovely.

I recently moved every one of my aloes so they'd get less sun during the day. It was partly to make sure they didn't burn at this time of year, but also because I don't like those dull reds or bruise purples they turn in the winter sun.

Posted by mickthecactus on Feb 14, 2012, 3:02pm

Feb 14, 2012, 2:41pm, bixaorellana wrote:

Those colours are normal Bixa - they'd do it in habitat too. I have A. dorotheae (named after some Dorothy or other) which goes mahogany brown in winter when it gets water stressed. I'll look out a picture.

I was being sneaky about the Agave - it's a miniature A. parviflora v flexiflora which I got early on in my collecting career. It flowered, threw off an offset which I grew and then that flowered and I'm growing another offset now. It's the only Agave that has ever flowered for me.

Both of those Aloes are cuttings from Kew.

Posted by tod2 on Feb 14, 2012, 3:43pm

Bixa, to be honest I don't think so. No signs yet but it's hard to judge as they are in an elevated position in my succulants garden. Actually, you have reminded me to go and poke around in there to see what has become of my Quiver Trees that I planted out some months ago!!

Posted by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2012, 7:47pm

I know those colors are normal, Mick, but I figure since their lives are abnormal anyway -- growing in pots on my patio far from their native home -- they can just do one more little thing for me.

That's pretty exciting that you got that agave to flower for you like that. Even in habitat it can takes years for some of them to flower.

Tod, how old are your agaves?

Feb 14, 2012, 3:02pm, mickthecactus wrote:

named after some Dorothy or other

Totally off the subject -- found this yesterday &
am sharing it with everyone who might enjoy it:

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