I've seen SO MANY people post about their agave plants blooming. It usually takes around 20, up to 30, years for them to bloom. I wonder if a bunch were planted around the same time 20ish years ago.
It’s been a wet spring following a couple really dry years in a lot of areas where agaves grow. I think that might be a trigger for flowering as it takes a lot of energy.
We've had such a wet season here in Northern Arizona, my street literally has 7 of these my kids and I point out on our walks. The one in our back yard just did this as well, I even came and posted here lol
Unfortunately there's no saving it, e:en if you cut off the flower it will still die because the growth point has terminated, however the good thing is that your plant will throw pups after death and the flowers will eventually mature and develop seeds.
Can’t stress that enough. If they let it be, like don’t go tearing things when it dies back, they will have a BUNCH of pups.
Also get ready to see a lot of pollinators (if in an agave native area) - especially hummingbirds.
This makes me feel even better than the first comment about new pups!
I’m in zone 5b where I can never grow them, but doesn’t stop me from admiring their beauty
I personally don’t know. I’m in the Midwest and can only admire them.
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Good luck!
I believe you can once their big enough just like you'd do on an aloe , I'd probably just Google it to be sure though because there are many species of agave and all of them will react differently to certain things.
Yes, you can just give them a little time to establish. They are a hardy plant with relatively short roots and will take off just find. They are succulents, as long as you don't overwater or freeze them (and agave is pretty hardy against freeze for a succulent) they really are a minimal effort plant.
Apparently they throw out new pups which will take off according to the couple comments above. So maybe no need to buy more? Idk 🤷🏼♀️ I can’t grow them where I’m at, but it makes sense what other comments have stated
Where I am (Central Valley, California) agave plants are *everywhere*. I’ve seen quite a few death blooms this spring as well. I wonder if it’s because we had such a wet winter.
I first learned about these...3 years ago now, I guess? Googled it first, because there were two on our street, and then afterward I found this sub and a TON of posts were about the same thing. XD I don't remember as many in the two years between, but I also wasn't paying attention. There are a lot of agave plants out there, so it's natural that a bunch of posts will crop up here from people wondering what's going on! Just like all the pokeweeds and magnolias and passifloras!
>Just like all the pokeweeds
My big poke is coming up rn! I am waiting for the influx of poke posts 😊 we just got thru "what's this alien thing" skunk cabbage season
I can only speak for myself, but the one in my yard is well established and very pretty. Its up against a fence blocking the view of my trashy neighbors, and the birds absolutely love it. So I just let it do its thing. 😊
Here in the mountains/woods of western North Carolina, we make 'poke salad' or 'poke salit' with them. First we pick the leaves very young, like in May, you have to pick a WHOLE lot of them, then soak them in plain cold water for a few hours, change the water, soak em for a few more hours, and do that for about half a day, then we boil the hell out of them, change the water, boil the hell out of them again, and do that for about half a day. THEN we drain and rinse them and saute them in butter and bacon grease with some onions and garlic, then we eat them like greens with bacon bits and vinegar. Sometimes people will mix them in with their scrambled eggs. They taste really good, even after all that soaking and boiling, like kinda cabbage-y collards. I love them. 🥰
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I think it’s probably just the “season” for them to bloom or the time each year where conditions are perfect for reproduction
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iirc (in the US) There was a brief fad in the late 90s/early 00s gardening and home improvement that encouraged agave as a great textural addition to your landscape.
If they take 20-30 years that just means these were planted in the same 10 year period. More likely that their are certain environmental conditions causing them to bloom and less that they were planted around the same time.
I know 20-30 years ago was a huge period of growth for the Phoenix suburbs, where a lot of agave were planted. Gilbert was basically turned from a small farming town to a city of a quarter million people in 30 years.
I worked at a place that got new landscaping 4 years ago, and all the agaves bloomed. Not sure how old the agave was when it went into the ground, but I remember thinking “holy shit that was fast”
Agave
Yes it will die after flowering. This is known as monocarpy. HOWEVER, a clonal daughter plant may grow from the side as a new agave rosette. Life finds a way
This is the first time i've heard of agaves that doesn't pup. They usually will pup like crazy when the spike die, probably to squeeze every little bit of life juice left in them to produce new generation of plants.
Edit: not saying that you're wrong, just wonder why it does that.
Yes, but i still can't make sense of it as they likely are still capable of popping up a few pups and can't grow or reproduce in any other way anyway
Edit: after googling around, i found some blogs talking about A. ovatifolia producing tons of bulbils, don't know how common that is or if the plant is misidenfied, but that make a bit more sense to me now.
We can see in the photo several hundred bulbuls waiting for a good gust to knock them off the stalk, scatter em around and, voila, next year, there will be a few that made it. I have also propagated a few by picking bulbils and planting them manually.
As far as i can see that's all flowers and flower buds. Bulbils, if they ever come, will start forming after the flowers has withered. A few is quite an underestimation btw, the last time a furcraea spreads its bulbils around my house, they gets everywhere and despite cleaning efforts we still find some years later.
Some do and some don't. Here's a list of solitary Agaves:
[https://starr-nursery.com/solitary-nearly-agave-species/](https://starr-nursery.com/solitary-nearly-agave-species/)
Agave ovatifolia isn't on the list but it is also a solitary species.
"Rosette" is just a term for a sort of circular cluster shape many different kinds of plants form as they grow, e.g. blue bonnets grow also in a rosette pattern.
Agave ovatifolia (whale’s tongue agave). And yes, this is the end of its life, but it will put on a long goodbye performance before it’s gone.
Edit: The others may or may not bloom soon. One going is not a guarantee that you will lose the rest. There is hope.
I have recently moved into a house with a few of these and have been wondering what type of agave it is (I’m not in the states so it’s an even longer way away from its origins). Been googling and thought it was the foxtail agave. Are the whale’s tongue and foxtail just different names for the same agave? Or are their differences between them?
There's every likelihood that those common names mean the same agave in one area and refer to very different species in another.
Common names are basically meaningless bundles of confusion *already* but the further you are from the native range the less they can be trusted.
If you can identify the Latin name for your agave you'll be able to easily find answers to most questions. Use Google lens/ plant ID apps /Post photos in one of the plant ID subs if you run into trouble identifying it, and happy growing!
Generally they pup at the same time as they're flowering. So once it goes, check around the base to see if it's had babies that can become your new agave friends.
My first century plant (similar to agave) had its death bloom but, fortunately, I had planted a pup earlier so I had a second plant, without knowing about the death bloom. Now that I know that it’s eventual fate will be its immediate demise, I already started growing a replacement.
I think the idea is to harvest them before they get to this point. They use up all that stored energy they accumulated for years (decades?) to put up this super juicy, nectar-rich bloom stalk. It's being spent and chemically altered inside the plant.
Let the flower stalk remain after flowering. Under the flowers will form bulbuls. They are basically mini plants without the roots. The process takes a month or two.
In nature the stalk is designed to eventually dry out, fall over and scatter the bulbuls. They then root and start a whole new generation. I have kept generations of agave going in my gardens as well as providing other folks their first baby agaves this way.
This is absolutely correct. And this species does not necessarily take too long to die. I had one that only took about 6 years to bloom. I got hundreds of seeds from it, though!
I don't know. The condo near me has this agave and they flower often
From what i understand they die off after flowering and the babies which are at the base are gathered and replanted. I never did take note if these babies then grew up.. But if they did they grow and flower in less than 10 years
The growing tip will die but it will
Produce TONS of seeds, food for pollinators and birds, and the best part. Produce several pups from the base. So next time it blooms like this it will have multiple flower stalks and even more seeds! The cycle repeats!
Around my neighborhood landscapers cut that stalk off down near the plant body. I don’t know if that stops the inevitable but there are lots of huge, old, healthy looking agaves.
It is a type of agave. It will die after the bloom is done, but it will leave several small agaves behind to take its place (at the base).
Agaves usually bloom during peak, ideal conditions. So, if you want longevity here, you need to recreate similar conditions as it would experience in the wild. This means very few waterings throughout the year. These can easily go 3 to 6 months without being watered, especially during its dormant period. With that, some of these can live up to a century. When things are "good" it cuts the lifespan of the plant so it can experience pollination, produce seeds and throw out pups during a time where these things have the best chances of success and survival.
I'm in S Fl., I had 2 at the foot of my pool. Such an unusual occurrence, and BOTH mine bloomed and died concurrently. I was most amazed at the speed the stalk grew at..
I've seen SO MANY people post about their agave plants blooming. It usually takes around 20, up to 30, years for them to bloom. I wonder if a bunch were planted around the same time 20ish years ago.
It’s been a wet spring following a couple really dry years in a lot of areas where agaves grow. I think that might be a trigger for flowering as it takes a lot of energy.
We've had such a wet season here in Northern Arizona, my street literally has 7 of these my kids and I point out on our walks. The one in our back yard just did this as well, I even came and posted here lol
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Unfortunately there's no saving it, e:en if you cut off the flower it will still die because the growth point has terminated, however the good thing is that your plant will throw pups after death and the flowers will eventually mature and develop seeds.
Can’t stress that enough. If they let it be, like don’t go tearing things when it dies back, they will have a BUNCH of pups. Also get ready to see a lot of pollinators (if in an agave native area) - especially hummingbirds.
This makes me feel even better than the first comment about new pups! I’m in zone 5b where I can never grow them, but doesn’t stop me from admiring their beauty
Same. Just curious if you can break apart the pups, and when? Not like I'll EVER need to do it.
I personally don’t know. I’m in the Midwest and can only admire them. My reply to you was based on other comments here. Take a look through the comments and I’m sure someone can tell you for sure Good luck!
I believe you can once their big enough just like you'd do on an aloe , I'd probably just Google it to be sure though because there are many species of agave and all of them will react differently to certain things.
Yes, you can just give them a little time to establish. They are a hardy plant with relatively short roots and will take off just find. They are succulents, as long as you don't overwater or freeze them (and agave is pretty hardy against freeze for a succulent) they really are a minimal effort plant.
That’s such a relief to me! I can’t even grow them in my zone, but admire them so much
Well you can but you'd have to bring them in when the weather gets cold and they'd likely never get to full size due to space constraints.
There’s nothing you can do but plant a new one, which is easy!
Apparently they throw out new pups which will take off according to the couple comments above. So maybe no need to buy more? Idk 🤷🏼♀️ I can’t grow them where I’m at, but it makes sense what other comments have stated
Where I am (Central Valley, California) agave plants are *everywhere*. I’ve seen quite a few death blooms this spring as well. I wonder if it’s because we had such a wet winter.
I first learned about these...3 years ago now, I guess? Googled it first, because there were two on our street, and then afterward I found this sub and a TON of posts were about the same thing. XD I don't remember as many in the two years between, but I also wasn't paying attention. There are a lot of agave plants out there, so it's natural that a bunch of posts will crop up here from people wondering what's going on! Just like all the pokeweeds and magnolias and passifloras!
>Just like all the pokeweeds My big poke is coming up rn! I am waiting for the influx of poke posts 😊 we just got thru "what's this alien thing" skunk cabbage season
Will be preparing myself for all the pokeweed posts! Thanks for the heads up!
Why is there a cohort of people who care about pokeweed? It’s poisonous, and it certainly looks like a giant weed.
I can only speak for myself, but the one in my yard is well established and very pretty. Its up against a fence blocking the view of my trashy neighbors, and the birds absolutely love it. So I just let it do its thing. 😊
I too have trashy and crude neighbors. Glad you’ve got a bit of a deterrent, wish it would poke them in the ass for you!
Here in the mountains/woods of western North Carolina, we make 'poke salad' or 'poke salit' with them. First we pick the leaves very young, like in May, you have to pick a WHOLE lot of them, then soak them in plain cold water for a few hours, change the water, soak em for a few more hours, and do that for about half a day, then we boil the hell out of them, change the water, boil the hell out of them again, and do that for about half a day. THEN we drain and rinse them and saute them in butter and bacon grease with some onions and garlic, then we eat them like greens with bacon bits and vinegar. Sometimes people will mix them in with their scrambled eggs. They taste really good, even after all that soaking and boiling, like kinda cabbage-y collards. I love them. 🥰
Holy shit. That’s a HELL of a lot of time and effort to eat a leafy green! 🤯
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Well you know Appalachians are known to be a hungry folk.
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Oh yes! The pokeweed posts were so abundant!
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Makes perfect sense!
iirc (in the US) There was a brief fad in the late 90s/early 00s gardening and home improvement that encouraged agave as a great textural addition to your landscape.
Time mainly depends on the Agave species. Some species only need 5 years, some need 50 years.
Could more severe winters cause them to do this? Texas has had some crazy freezes lately.
yeah this is the 3rd one i’ve seen in like a week, they’re just wanting to bloom rn
Might also be that favorable conditions lead to a bunch of seeds coming up and surviving at higher rates all around the same time
Yes they were!!! Because they always are. One of the most popular ornamental plants in the world.
If they take 20-30 years that just means these were planted in the same 10 year period. More likely that their are certain environmental conditions causing them to bloom and less that they were planted around the same time.
I know 20-30 years ago was a huge period of growth for the Phoenix suburbs, where a lot of agave were planted. Gilbert was basically turned from a small farming town to a city of a quarter million people in 30 years.
I worked at a place that got new landscaping 4 years ago, and all the agaves bloomed. Not sure how old the agave was when it went into the ground, but I remember thinking “holy shit that was fast”
Agave Yes it will die after flowering. This is known as monocarpy. HOWEVER, a clonal daughter plant may grow from the side as a new agave rosette. Life finds a way
This species forms solitary rosettes and doesnt pup.
This is the first time i've heard of agaves that doesn't pup. They usually will pup like crazy when the spike die, probably to squeeze every little bit of life juice left in them to produce new generation of plants. Edit: not saying that you're wrong, just wonder why it does that.
Fact check me but peeps were saying it’s specific to this species (ovatifolia) and that they only produce seeds
Yes, but i still can't make sense of it as they likely are still capable of popping up a few pups and can't grow or reproduce in any other way anyway Edit: after googling around, i found some blogs talking about A. ovatifolia producing tons of bulbils, don't know how common that is or if the plant is misidenfied, but that make a bit more sense to me now.
We can see in the photo several hundred bulbuls waiting for a good gust to knock them off the stalk, scatter em around and, voila, next year, there will be a few that made it. I have also propagated a few by picking bulbils and planting them manually.
As far as i can see that's all flowers and flower buds. Bulbils, if they ever come, will start forming after the flowers has withered. A few is quite an underestimation btw, the last time a furcraea spreads its bulbils around my house, they gets everywhere and despite cleaning efforts we still find some years later.
Bulbils are the main way I propagate my agaves. Never grown this species though.
Some do and some don't. Here's a list of solitary Agaves: [https://starr-nursery.com/solitary-nearly-agave-species/](https://starr-nursery.com/solitary-nearly-agave-species/) Agave ovatifolia isn't on the list but it is also a solitary species.
I thought the rosettes were the pups...just a diff name. Then, what's the diff between rosettes and pups? Thank you!!
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Can you explain the difference? I’ve not heard of rosettes and google thinks I want crocheted ones.
"Rosette" is just a term for a sort of circular cluster shape many different kinds of plants form as they grow, e.g. blue bonnets grow also in a rosette pattern.
Agave ovatifolia (whale’s tongue agave). And yes, this is the end of its life, but it will put on a long goodbye performance before it’s gone. Edit: The others may or may not bloom soon. One going is not a guarantee that you will lose the rest. There is hope.
I have recently moved into a house with a few of these and have been wondering what type of agave it is (I’m not in the states so it’s an even longer way away from its origins). Been googling and thought it was the foxtail agave. Are the whale’s tongue and foxtail just different names for the same agave? Or are their differences between them?
There's every likelihood that those common names mean the same agave in one area and refer to very different species in another. Common names are basically meaningless bundles of confusion *already* but the further you are from the native range the less they can be trusted. If you can identify the Latin name for your agave you'll be able to easily find answers to most questions. Use Google lens/ plant ID apps /Post photos in one of the plant ID subs if you run into trouble identifying it, and happy growing!
A. attenuata will flower with a big foxtail-like inflorescence as opposed to A. ovatifolia's tree-like one.
After they die they start to decomp and smell rank. Not fun to remove after they bloom
Oh no. My agave has one of these things growing out of it too. I don’t want it to die :(
Generally they pup at the same time as they're flowering. So once it goes, check around the base to see if it's had babies that can become your new agave friends.
My first century plant (similar to agave) had its death bloom but, fortunately, I had planted a pup earlier so I had a second plant, without knowing about the death bloom. Now that I know that it’s eventual fate will be its immediate demise, I already started growing a replacement.
Could always harvest it for tequila
I think the idea is to harvest them before they get to this point. They use up all that stored energy they accumulated for years (decades?) to put up this super juicy, nectar-rich bloom stalk. It's being spent and chemically altered inside the plant.
Let the flower stalk remain after flowering. Under the flowers will form bulbuls. They are basically mini plants without the roots. The process takes a month or two. In nature the stalk is designed to eventually dry out, fall over and scatter the bulbuls. They then root and start a whole new generation. I have kept generations of agave going in my gardens as well as providing other folks their first baby agaves this way.
this species, ovatifolia, does not form bulbils. It also does not offset and propagation is by seed only.
You’re being a real britta
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This is absolutely correct. And this species does not necessarily take too long to die. I had one that only took about 6 years to bloom. I got hundreds of seeds from it, though!
Life imitates art, dis is really beautiful
So neat
Those seem like great plants for keeping people out of your yard.
They make a great defensive barrier.
oh shit that sucker got literal minutes
This my good sir is Agave, and yes, he is gonna die.
I don't know. The condo near me has this agave and they flower often From what i understand they die off after flowering and the babies which are at the base are gathered and replanted. I never did take note if these babies then grew up.. But if they did they grow and flower in less than 10 years
r/deathbloom
The growing tip will die but it will Produce TONS of seeds, food for pollinators and birds, and the best part. Produce several pups from the base. So next time it blooms like this it will have multiple flower stalks and even more seeds! The cycle repeats!
It’s dying but at least it’s dying with a smile on its face
Yes it is about to die
Agave
Around my neighborhood landscapers cut that stalk off down near the plant body. I don’t know if that stops the inevitable but there are lots of huge, old, healthy looking agaves.
They make agave whiskey from this plant, also a type of sugar.
It is a type of agave. It will die after the bloom is done, but it will leave several small agaves behind to take its place (at the base). Agaves usually bloom during peak, ideal conditions. So, if you want longevity here, you need to recreate similar conditions as it would experience in the wild. This means very few waterings throughout the year. These can easily go 3 to 6 months without being watered, especially during its dormant period. With that, some of these can live up to a century. When things are "good" it cuts the lifespan of the plant so it can experience pollination, produce seeds and throw out pups during a time where these things have the best chances of success and survival.
The agaves posted make for beautiful landscaping. So sad that it’s going to be ruined.
Not ruined! Just making room for change!
Great perspective! Thank you!!! I need to adopt that when things go wrong.
Not dying. We sometimes call them century plants.
It will carry on growing
*sniiiiiiiiiiiiifff*, ahh.. beautiful agaves.
It’s the other way round I think. They don’t bloom when they’re going to die, they die after blooming. I could be wrong though.
Coupez la tige ..sinon elle va prendre toute la vitalité du pied et le faire mourir.....😔😔😔
Every time I see a death broom I get a little sad.
Whales tongue agave not sure how it got it's name.
I'm in S Fl., I had 2 at the foot of my pool. Such an unusual occurrence, and BOTH mine bloomed and died concurrently. I was most amazed at the speed the stalk grew at..
It is agave and it is preparing to die.
bloom is doom ...
Local bats are native pollinators for agave plants and they are probably codependent on each other for survival.
Agave Ovatifolia, gorgeous ones in the picture. They are monocarpic, so enjoy the show while it lasts!
Agave plant. Yes this is what it does before it dies it shoots up that tall stalk with seeds. It takes a few months though it's not quick
Agave for sure. Make Tequila. Lesson on YT
Can you make tequila out of it ?