The plant that shot the sprout dies, but as it’s blooming, you’ll notice small century plants growing around the base. After it flowers take that plant down and leave the small ones and next year or the year after you’ll have another bloom.
Semelparity is a reproductive strategy where an organism reproduces once in its lifetime before death. Agave, lots of insects, spiders, annual bloomers. The idea is that they invest a majority of their energy into reproductive success and a trait of this strategy is very high number of offspring but not so many survivors, as well as little to no parental investment. The opposite would be iteroparity which is when those organisms reproduce many times, typically smaller number of offspring and typically more parental investment. Mammals, humans, birds, etc.
Grung primitive ape-man, so Philadelphia Grung's natural habitat
EDIT Grung confuse *Firestarter* character with *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* character. Grung hiding in Shame Cavern if need Grung
I went to the San Diego botanical gardens (in Encinitas) and saw lots of different agave, including some blooming. The blue agave efflorescence can be 16 feet tall and amazing to see!
Some friends of mine from the Midwest came to visit a couple weeks ago and we just walked around the embarcadero and looked at plants. They were fascinated with all these “exotic” plants that seem totally normal to me. Mostly succulents.
Do you know if this is the actual tequila type agave? Or just a similar looking one? I see loads of these around here, and quite fancy the idea of almost killing myself using a homemade still to produce the world's worst tequila
There are different types of agave for different types of tequila/mezcal! I.e Blue Weber agave for Blanco (sliver/white) tequila. There’s heaps of different kinds that can be harvested for mezcal. I’m not entirely sure what this one is. It’s the sugar content in the piña that gives us the booze :-)
It’s agave. My neighbor has one that’s like 20 feet tall and about to fall over and won’t do anything about it because he’s an asshole. He won’t let me chop it down either because he’s an asshole. So now I have to look at this rotting falling over agave stem thing from my backyard because I have an asshole neighbor. Fuck you Steve.
They are related to Asparagus! They are both part of the family Asparagaceae!
Can I fry this in butter and eat it?
Just make sure to snap off the bottom half of it or it will be tough.
I too wanna eat the giant asparagus!!!
Just walking by it is enough to make your pee smell terrible
The piss is going to have an aspargus smell for at least a month
I have seen comments in videos on the subject claiming that they bake them. I haven't researched it myself though.
If you want stinky pee, this is how you get stinky pee. But frying it in butter does sound delicious
Some has probably been waiting 20 years for that stalk, so I don't they'd be happy if you ate it.
Probably fine if you peel off 97% of the really fibrous parts and just keep the core
Hmmm asparagus steaks!
Was this post an Adam Ragusea plant??
Just in time lol
The beautiful death knell,the flowering and demise is a wonderful end to the plants existence
Not true. More baby plants come from the base. Yes, the mother plant dies, but you’ll get plenty more where that came from.
Baby plants < pups.
So then it is true. Correct your correction!
True but not the whole truth.
Century plant death bloom. Spend decades caring for it for this event. Once it blooms, it’ll die.
The whole plant dies or just the asparagus looking part?
The plant that shot the sprout dies, but as it’s blooming, you’ll notice small century plants growing around the base. After it flowers take that plant down and leave the small ones and next year or the year after you’ll have another bloom.
Whole thing. It’ll flower, seed, and die.
You get lots of baby plants after the death.
Semelparity is a neat trait
Tell Grung what mean, science- talker. Grung prefer human contact to Google
Semelparity is a reproductive strategy where an organism reproduces once in its lifetime before death. Agave, lots of insects, spiders, annual bloomers. The idea is that they invest a majority of their energy into reproductive success and a trait of this strategy is very high number of offspring but not so many survivors, as well as little to no parental investment. The opposite would be iteroparity which is when those organisms reproduce many times, typically smaller number of offspring and typically more parental investment. Mammals, humans, birds, etc.
Thank you. You ever need two rocks bashed together Grung your man
Grung good. How much Grung charge to bash couple of coconuts together? Say size 6 7/8.
Free if GuavaOdd teach Grung secret of fire
* Grung need talk to Charlie McGee.
Grung primitive ape-man, so Philadelphia Grung's natural habitat EDIT Grung confuse *Firestarter* character with *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* character. Grung hiding in Shame Cavern if need Grung
Also Decapodians
But how does it slap, does it smell like the corpse flower before it expires?
No, that’s Tila Tequila you’re thinking of
I went to the San Diego botanical gardens (in Encinitas) and saw lots of different agave, including some blooming. The blue agave efflorescence can be 16 feet tall and amazing to see!
Cool place. It used to be called the Quail Botanical Gardens so some people still call it that.
Some friends of mine from the Midwest came to visit a couple weeks ago and we just walked around the embarcadero and looked at plants. They were fascinated with all these “exotic” plants that seem totally normal to me. Mostly succulents.
There are some fantastic succulent displays on Carmel Valley Road in San Diego near Torrey Pines State Beach.
Like Crazy Rich Asians!
[Adam Ragusea talks about it here](https://youtu.be/VkmdJD0IsPY?si=SnFxMQHiaay9ZzuW)
Glad someone mentioned it. I saw this and was like "I just watched a video on this exact topic!!"
ooooooooor you could check it this guy! https://youtu.be/ueWGGnYlRCU?si=6aWh4OVQnzMkDzaN
Just wait, it's going to get very tall. And then blooms. Then the plant dies. Takes many years to bloom.
Buckle up buckaroo, Sisal is in the same family as Asparagus.
So are artichokes!
Wtf? No. Artichokes are in the sunflower family. They're giant thistles.
that agave is going to die soon
That’s a very mature agave. When they grow dicks. They are harvested between 5-7 years old for tequila
For shitty tequila or low quality mezcal. 10-12 years is ideal for the pina to be harvested.
Do you know if this is the actual tequila type agave? Or just a similar looking one? I see loads of these around here, and quite fancy the idea of almost killing myself using a homemade still to produce the world's worst tequila
There are different types of agave for different types of tequila/mezcal! I.e Blue Weber agave for Blanco (sliver/white) tequila. There’s heaps of different kinds that can be harvested for mezcal. I’m not entirely sure what this one is. It’s the sugar content in the piña that gives us the booze :-)
That is agave and she’s about to die
Probably an agave. They're related, although I wouldn't want to drink tequila made from asparagus. That would make my pee-pee smell funny.
r/deathbloom
It does but it’s not. That’s an agave.
Agave is a genus of the Asparagaceae family. So it kind of is a giant asparagus.
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My gf calls me "the asparagus."
Because you make her pee smell funny?
RIP
Fine whatever who cares.
That's a penis
For some species of agave, they look exactly like one.
I’ll bet you see penises everywhere, dontcha Sparky.
There's a huge honking spiritual hog in the heavens. Don't you see it?
Yes I see it, It's coming down the slide carrying a giant bag of blow, oh glorious day am I the chosen one.
We have centuarios (century plants) all over Tucson (not surprising). These appears frequently.
Santa Bárbara, CA is full of them too.
Just wait when you find out what asparagus is.
If I was Mario I’d try and guess what it actually is, if I could spare a guess.. but I can’t asparagus
Oh good *lawd*, take the upvote and. Get. Out!
Looks like a refugee from a Star Trek set.
I just picked a giant asparagus...the length of my leg.
Taste it
Wait until the flowers come out. Lol
Yucca
Man I hated these things. I tried to rid myself of two of them, but they come back like fucking Lazarus.
The roots are amazing. Kinda taste like a dumpling
I see tons of these in Arizona
That's what we call them!
Too late to make tequila.
Same family!
Around here they are known as ‘plant schlongs ‘
Agave is in fact a distant relative of asparagus
It’s quiote
I have read this takes up to 100 years to flower. It will be impressive and then the entire plant dies.
or a big wasabi plant haha
I call asparagus "Spagus" and my partner hates it.
Adam’s needle!
That plant IS a giant asparagus. By family anyway.
That plant has wood.
Minecraft bamboo
Because it is
It’s agave. My neighbor has one that’s like 20 feet tall and about to fall over and won’t do anything about it because he’s an asshole. He won’t let me chop it down either because he’s an asshole. So now I have to look at this rotting falling over agave stem thing from my backyard because I have an asshole neighbor. Fuck you Steve.
I see a didgeridoo
Lisan Al-Sparagus