Agaveville

Grown from seed, no idea of the species name.

Chris

Wow! Very nice. A bloom at that tender age. Never seen that before. Jkw

Ditto... remarkable species. Great flower. No clue.

Wow, it's beautiful.

I look at the rather plain plant, then at the amazing flowers, back at the plant, back at the flowers (and I did that yesterday too, lol).... rather incredible that something so ordinary looking produces such a fantastic flower display.
Congrats!

Absolutely stunning!
I may have to try to find that one!

Beautiful little puya! Will you have seed to sell? Judging from the flower it should self pollinate. Where is it grown? Where did you find it? Will it take freezing temps and hot high humidity of South La.? Regards Jim@ Jimeze Plants

Beautiful. Puya have mostly been misses for me. Seemingly dying from too much sun/heat or too much rain. I have 1 left out of the 4 I purchased last spring. It’s doing ok for now so I’m not even going to think of touching it .

Yes, a nice plant, very blue for sure, and I managed to get a few seeds from it and they are growing ok now. I had no other puyas flowering (no surprise) so they should be true, amd look ok so far.
Chris

I happened to order some Ralf Hillmann seeds this past year from his 2019 catalog, including a bunch of Puya. Unfortunately, that order didn't include his RH 1809 collection.
I just happened to be looking at his list again and remembered this post; I checked to see if RH 1809 existed on this latest list, and it sure does.

However, I find it extremely interesting that he has that collection labeled as Puya chilensis from Pichidangui (Chile) along the coast!

Clearly this isn't P. chilensis, but I've no clue what it could be. The only two species that I can determine are found there include P. venusta and P. alpestris ssp zoellneri.

The flowers do seem to look P. venusta-like, and that species is one of the smaller ones (though yours seems to stretch that definition for the species!). I wonder if it is a form P. venusta that Ralf misidentified or got mixed up with P. chilensis (which is probably actually P. alpestris ssp zoellneri) from the same locality.

Chris, did any of your seedlings survive?

Yes, i have sent one to a collector and still have five more growing well. Happy to exchange or whatever, i think they should flower next year maybe.
Regards
Chris