I think Rob used up all our good luck this weekend.

[cactuswatcher]

Mine is not as bad a disaster as Masq's lost files, but it's still a pain.

I went out watering, and looking for flower buds among the cacti. Found a flower bud in the wrong place. See that little splotch of light color in the top of the lower plant in the icon? That's a bloom stalk. Great right? Wrong. Agaves die when they bloom and I've only had this little one for a year. There are a couple of suckers so it's not a total loss, but most of the plant you see is doomed.

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Re: The circle of life

[ann1962]

Hoping so. I once saw a century plant at the U of M arboretum/greenhouse that was at least 30 ft high in bloom. That was when I was under the impression that they did only bloom once a century (misnomer). It was very impressive.