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Lemnaminor
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Propagating Agave
#23413892 - 07/05/16 02:01 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hi Guys A friend of mine ( I started this guy to the world of cactus and succulents) has this exemplar of Agave Americana

This plant was taken from the wild, and while I don't encourage taking exemplars from mother nature, i feel i would have done the same, since agave americana is not endangered, plus is more than abundant in Sicily (As abundant as Opuntia Ficus Indica is)
the plant is just a variegated A Americana. An offset from a bigger Patch of regular agaves ( dunno if regular or yellow variegated ones but probably the latter)
Now, i asked him to pot it in a bigger container, hoping for it to put offsets ( this is as i know one of the easiest ways to propagate Agave, aside aerial bulbis)
As today the plant didin't indeed put offsets. And even if it did, i dunno if those would be as variegated as it is (are offsets clones? if they are, are they supposed to be as variegated as the motherplant?).
I wonder if the Leaf propagation method that is mostly used for a great number of succulents works too for an agave. I think that would be assuring the variegation, but i don't really know if it works
Any experience with that? any speculation? i really want this genetics in my collection.
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Spanishfly
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Offsets are indeed clones - they have the identical DNA to their only parent.
Agave americana is dead common here as well - I can see no negative aspect to taking one (or even more) from the wild population - which is not indigenous anyway. No idea if a leaf cutting will work - maybe only one way to find out.
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Lemnaminor
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Registered: 11/13/13
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i know, just felt i'd ask here first. if the exemplar was mine i wouldn't hesitate to cut a big leaf and take the risk.
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Stupendous-Yappi
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I've tried rooting a few large leaves (~3ft) of a blue agave but didn't have any luck. Maybe the leaves need to be young to propagate?
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penker
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Registered: 06/11/16
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kill apical meristem to make it offshoot like crazy
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Lemnaminor
Lophophora - eyed



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Re: Propagating Agave [Re: penker]
#23415883 - 07/06/16 02:54 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Mmmm sounds intresting. I will test it on regualr agaves first. Upon further investigation, the plant was not found clumped with bigger others ( as an offset) but slightly isolated. And had no "umbical cord" so its most likely to be a variegated genetic from seed.
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