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The pictures above aren't Dasylirion serratifolium imo. Eeven acounting for the difference in climate between Oaxaca and Nice they just don't look right. Here is the real thing near it's type location just northwest of Oaxaca. Short, wide, stiff leaves, thick trunk, brutish appearance.
GreekDesert wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:15 pm
very nice, i grow many Nolinaceae.
My D. wheeleri blooms every two or three years and my glaucophyllum also. The others did not bloom by now.
How big does a D wheeleri need to be before blooming? I purchased 2 really large 15 gallon specimen plants last year. Should I be optimistic?
Mckinney, Texas. 30 Miles North of Dallas. What I'm trying to grow: A ovatifolia: whales tongue, frosty blue, vanzie, sharkskin, parrasana, montana, parryi JC Raulston, Bellville, Bluebell Giant, havardiana, polianthiflora, parviflora, havardiana x neomexicana
GreekDesert wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:15 pm
very nice, i grow many Nolinaceae.
My D. wheeleri blooms every two or three years and my glaucophyllum also. The others did not bloom by now.
How big does a D wheeleri need to be before blooming? I purchased 2 really large 15 gallon specimen plants last year. Should I be optimistic?
Do you have a picture? Once their head fills out to near a mature size is when they start to bloom, from what I’ve seen. Then they start growing upwards. They bloom all over the Austin area.
The texture is more like Agave marmorata than asperrima - very coarse.
As an aside, in theory there are just two described species of dasylirion in the south of Mexico - D. serratifolium and D. lucidum. Both of which are large, trunking plants, quite distinct in themselves and from each other. I've seen others - non-trunking and also trunking but branching - that need names. It wouldn't surprise me if seed of these other species has entered into cultivation as D. serratifolium at some point.
As an aside to an aside, in Europe there is a default by commercial growers to call any green dasylirion with marginal teeth D. serratifolium.
GreekDesert wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:15 pm
very nice, i grow many Nolinaceae.
My D. wheeleri blooms every two or three years and my glaucophyllum also. The others did not bloom by now.
How big does a D wheeleri need to be before blooming? I purchased 2 really large 15 gallon specimen plants last year. Should I be optimistic?
Do you have a picture? Once their head fills out to near a mature size is when they start to bloom, from what I’ve seen. Then they start growing upwards. They bloom all over the Austin area.
Here you go. That's a 15 gallon bucket beside it. Height of the bucket is 16".
Thanks
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Mckinney, Texas. 30 Miles North of Dallas. What I'm trying to grow: A ovatifolia: whales tongue, frosty blue, vanzie, sharkskin, parrasana, montana, parryi JC Raulston, Bellville, Bluebell Giant, havardiana, polianthiflora, parviflora, havardiana x neomexicana
How big does a D wheeleri need to be before blooming? I purchased 2 really large 15 gallon specimen plants last year. Should I be optimistic?
Do you have a picture? Once their head fills out to near a mature size is when they start to bloom, from what I’ve seen. Then they start growing upwards. They bloom all over the Austin area.
Here you go. That's a 15 gallon bucket beside it. Height of the bucket is 16".
Thanks
I think it may have to grow a few more years before it will flower.
Do you have a picture? Once their head fills out to near a mature size is when they start to bloom, from what I’ve seen. Then they start growing upwards. They bloom all over the Austin area.
Here you go. That's a 15 gallon bucket beside it. Height of the bucket is 16".
Thanks
I think it may have to grow a few more years before it will flower.
I might just make it to see that bloom but for sure not the agaves.
Mckinney, Texas. 30 Miles North of Dallas. What I'm trying to grow: A ovatifolia: whales tongue, frosty blue, vanzie, sharkskin, parrasana, montana, parryi JC Raulston, Bellville, Bluebell Giant, havardiana, polianthiflora, parviflora, havardiana x neomexicana
In England the crown of most dasylirions needs to be around a foot in diameter. Depending upon the species it then has to grow upwards - the few wheeleri that I've seen that have made it to flowering have a crown that is usually 12-15" tall at the base.
It seems the various species behave differently - berlandieri is almost always a precocious flowerer over here, quadrangulatum needs to get to maybe 4-5ft of trunk and a few decades before it flowers.