Sunday, August 25, 2013

Century Plant Triplets--7th Week Lookit the Tops

April 15 (tax day!) was a beautiful blue-sky day, and the subjects' details crisper than on April 8. Amazingly, these century plants continued upward growth even while continuing to grow outward. And the bloom clusters grew bigger. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/08/century-plant-triplets-7th-week-lookit.html and comment there, please.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Century Plant Triplets--6th Week Subtle Continued Growth, Gauging Heights

The pixstrip shows the agave triplets pics from April 2 and April 8. At first glance, they don't seem to have changed much. I have, however, included height guestimations by using a street sign height and estimated people height as initial reference units of measure. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/08/century-plant-triplets-6th-week-subtle.html and comment there, please.

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Century Plant Triplets--5th Week Closer Looks at Stalks and Branches

This week, I decided to put up a zoom view pixstrip of the older and newer stalks to better show the changes to the century plant triplets. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/08/century-plant-triplets-5th-week-closer.html and comment there, please.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Century Plant Triplets--4rd Week Higher and Branching Out

The pixstrip shows the agave triplets pic from March 18 and March 25. The plants have grown still taller, and they have started branching out. The branches look like crosses between Christmas trees and candelabras. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/08/century-plant-triplets-4th-week-higher.html and comment there, please.