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[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gerardo

This plant caught my eye

Agave in full bloom.

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[Salsacharley]

That's a neat building behind the plant.

Originally Posted by Gerardo

This plant caught my eye

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Salsacharley

That's a neat building behind the plant.

It is the sight of the ancient Aztec main temple ((Templo Mayor)) in Mexico city.

[Gerardo]

There are quite a few of those colonial buildings that surround the archeological site, as you well know, they built the modern city on top of the old one. Dig a trench and your likely to hit multiple treasures. I highly recommend a visit if you're a fan of ancient cultures. The Museo de Antropología is full of the treasures that weren't shipped out to the Met, London, Paris, etc.

[DonDuck]

100 year agave? Supposedly only bloom once in their life time and then die.

[Rajun Gardener]

I saw these in the greenhouse.

[DonDuck]

Sweet Success cucumber variety?

[Rajun Gardener]

Dasher 2, they do great in the dutch buckets/hydro system.

[Cole_Robbie]

Originally Posted by DonDuck

Sweet Success cucumber variety?

Sweet Success is my favorite. I haven't tried a lot of similar ones, but Sweet Success is the only cuke I will eat.

[DonDuck]

i've grown Sweet Success for many years. It's a great cucumber. Most years, I also grow Diva and Muncher; but not this year. You need to eat those fairly quickly or they will get soft quickly. This year, my secondary cuke is Double Yield. It is a highly productive pickling cuke.and it is an heirloom variety so I save seed most years. I imagine they are pretty good eating cukes if picked small. That is my intent this year and possibly let some grow larger for pickling. I don't understand why people still grow cukes like Straight Eight which get so bitter in hot weather.

I saved Double Yield seed two years ago and put the seed in a plastic cup to dry before storing them. They sat on top of a tall tool chest in the cup for two years because I forgot they were up there. I tested six seeds under lights and all six germinated. Sitting under a ceiling fan for two years didn't hurt them.

[Cole_Robbie]

All my family eats over-sized picklers as slicing cukes. I grew up thinking that was normal, and thus that I hated cucumbers.

[DonDuck]

in the past, I didn't often grow picklers. If I wanted to pickle, I would usually purchase some at a farmers market. When I did grow them, I never thought about eating them as fresh cucumbers because I always had Sweet Success and there isn't a better cuke for eating. The Double Yield cukes grow rapidly and will be too large even for pickling whole if you don't watch them closely. The Double Yield is not a pretty cucumber like Sweet Success, but they make good, crisp pickles.

[Worth1]

Enough talk.
Here is what happens when you marinate red onions habanero and lime for 24 hours.
Plus marinated pork in chilies.
You ain't lived life till ya had it.
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[Worth1]

Originally Posted by DonDuck

100 year agave? Supposedly only bloom once in their life time and then die.

This is what people call a type of yucca it hasn't bloomed in three years but it is making up for it this year.
I isn't a yucca it is really an agave.
The next plant is a yucca.
It bloomed last year.
Both are called century plants.
Neither one takes 100 years to bloom.
Yucca plants dont die when they bloom but some agave do just not all of them.
I have a vast collection of agave plants.
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[SueCT]

Beautiful plants.