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Hello, I'm a relatively new member to your group, maybe three months, and have been looking at old topics to try to get alot more information about my recent...
This doesn't look like a rostrata even tho that was on the label. Also, the description of a rigida in the Irish book doesn't match. Ideas? It is about 8-10...
I would say rostrata. George Hull Mountain States ________________________________ From: agaveforum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:agaveforum@yahoogroups.com] On ...
Janna, I have always grown mine in wide shallow pots to help counter weight them so they don't fall over.My guess would be that the tall pots are to save ...
Everything else being equal, the soil in the taller pots will be dryer,,,and in their climate, Wade and Carl have usually more than enough water during some...
Thanks for the replies George and Kyle. Space was also my first thought, their greenhouse benches were packed with small plants. Not sure about the water...
Yucca rigida. To check rigida versus rostrata, place the palm of your hand about 6 inches from the leaf tip, then push straight into the tip towards the trunk....
Thanks Greg and George for your help. Using Greg's test (gently) it reluctantly bent so it agrees with George and the Yucca must be a rostrata despite not...
Hi Jim, The Y. rigida leaves will give also, just not as easily. You say it bent reluctantly which still tells me rigida. You were supposed to jab your hand...
Rigida has a guttered leaf, and Rostrata has a flat leaf that (usually) twists a bit. There is a lot of variability within Rostrata, however. Gregs test is a...
I just posted this same note to AGAVACEAE probably a lot of you are members of both. Hello, I am new to this group, and have just starting getting interested...
The leaves are 3/4 inches wide and they are straight. No, Greg, I ain't gonna do that test that way! Now if you really want to impress us with your pain...
They both have thin yellow margins. Yucca rigida leaves are 0.75"- 1.2" wide, y. rostrata leaves are less than 0.5" wide. Y. rostrata leaves are quite a bit...
I have never heard of using rice hulls for a soil mix. Do they decompose slowly? lee Re: soil mix for Agave Posted by: "bandaidthumb" southweststeve@......
Lee....VERY slowly. I bought a few hundred yards from a cut flower greenhouse that went out of business. It's actually their recipe. Hulls have some sort of...
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I've had them in compost from the rockery some years. They lasted a very long time. I believe bran is the fine stuff they scrape off the brown rice to make it...
... teeny little canoes. They really add airyness to the soil(if that's a word)and they don't break down. I love them... Norma...perhaps you need to give them...
Perhaps you are right, and I'll do just that. I still like my pumice. It does not break down, pack down and lets a lot of air in, drains rapidly. Rice hulls...
Those are all very good reasons, given Steve's very reliable experience attested eloquently by the magnificent specimen on the home page? Just a hunch on a...
I would think it is reasonable to suspect that they would do well in a fast well drained soil, from which they came from naturally, I would also think if rice...
I would believe that rice hulls would be fine. We don't of course use them commercially and would agree that probably Norma is correct here that it might be...
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