'Blue Glow' (Agave ocahui X attenuata)

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thistlesifter Vista, CA Mar 23, 2006

'Blue Glow'
Agave ocahui X attenuata

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bethie7 Riverside, CA(Zone 9b) Dec 04, 2006

It's so beautiful the way the sun is hitting the plant and making the edges look like rainbows - excelent picture.

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thistlesifter Vista, CA Dec 04, 2006

Thank you. It is difficult to capture the true beauty of this agave. It actually is much more beautiful when looking through it at sunset.

bob
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krockskrests Goleta, CA May 04, 2007

Spectacular Agave. I have a couple of these plants and love them. I am looking for a lot more, like a hundred small ones. Anyone out there know where to get them? Thanks for your time!

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thistlesifter Vista, CA May 04, 2007

These are super-selected and grown using tissue culture. One of the criteria for selection (since tissue culture is a risky and costly endeavor) is that the subject plant is not given to pupping. I am afraid that because both of its parents are monocarpic that this plant will become less and less stable if its clone is tissue cultured again.

With any luck it may be replicated through cross-breeding. The result may be an improvement, or it may never be as good. enjoy what you have of it. maybe it will pup when it flowers!! That would give it a few more years. and there is possibility that it will produce bubils. I am hoping for any of these on the ones I own.

these aren't taken out of production for marketing until they have reached 1 gallon size. I believe the current market on them at the 1-gallon size (if any are left from the original tissue culture) is around $35 per plant.

good luck!

bob


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agaveron Arcadia, CA Feb 14, 2008

Your picture really captures the beauty of this plant. I bought a 3 gallon sized one yesterday. It is the most beautiful agave I have in my collection

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