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.

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.

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.

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.

Century Plant Triplets--3rd Week Higher Up

The pixstrip shows the agave triplets pic from March 11 and March 18. Do a visual comparison of heights of the plants between the picture on the left and the one on the right. The increased height looks to be about the height of the sign on the right. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/07/century-plant-triplets-3rd-week-higher_28.html and comment there, please.

Century Plant Triplets--2nd Week

The pixstrip shows the agave triplets pic from March 4 and two from March 11. Do a visual comparison of heights of the two pictures on the left. … The picture on the right shows the March 11 image with additional skyward background for height reference. As my series continues, pictures will show sprouting progress, more than looking like giant asparagus shoots.

Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/07/century-plant-triplets-2nd-week.html and comment there, please.

Century Plant Triplets--Stalk Starts

Agave, noted for use in making tequila and agave syrup (aka nectar), can also have a spectacular end-of-life stage—
that of a century plant. This article is the first one in my series of the plants, which look like they started sprouting within the previous week before my pic.
Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/07/century-plant-triplets-stalk-starts.html and comment there, please.