Agave Tequiliana Bulbils Plant Starts.
Now is the time to purchase your Agave Tequliana plant starts.
With the newly established California Agave Spirits markets started in 2022, the time is now to plant and get established.
AgaveTequiliana Bulbils are small but mighty plants that have the potential to grow into large, stunning specimens.
$7 per plant.
Order tray of 70 or more plants and the price drops to $5 per plant.
Larger orders can be accomodated.
Plants can be shipped all over the world without soil. Can ship plants with soil within California.
There are three ways your average gardener can propagate an agave. It can be grown from seed, removed as a pup or sucker, or it can be done from pulling off bulbils (also called plantlets). Seed takes too long and in some cases you might not even end up with the same plant once grown up. Suckers are the easiest. Just wait until they have a nice root structure and remove them from the mother plant. Unfortunately, not all agaves like to make pups, so you are left with growing from seed or waiting for the plant to flower and make bulbils. What are bulbils? The definition is a small bulblike structure, especially in the axil of a leaf or at the base of a stem, that may form a new plant.”
Agave propagation from bulbils.
Plant in organic compost soil.
Water in thoroughly. Place in direct sunlight. Water only 1 time a week.
Agave Tequiliana Bulbils
Agave Tequilana
Agave Tequilana, commonly called Blue Agave (agave azul) or Tequila Agave, is an agave plant that is an important economic product of Jalisco, Mexico, due to its role as the base ingredient of tequila. The high production of sugars, named agavins, mostly fructose, in the core of the plant is the main characteristics that makes it suitable for the prepartion of tequila and agave spirits.
This plant grows best in rich and sandy soils. Blue Agave plants grow into large succulents, with spiky fleshy leaves that can reach over 7ft tall and a diameter of up to 6 feet. Blue Agaves sprout a stalk (quiote) when they are about 5 years old. These stalks can grow an additional 16 ft and are topped with yellow flowers.
Tequila and Agave Spirits are produced from the heart (piña or cabeza). The piña is typically harvested in its 8th-12th year. One mature piña produces approximately 5 liters of spirits. The heart, resembling a giant pineapple, is stripped of its leaves near the base and cooked to convert raw starches into sugars.
Great candidates for xeriscaping with lower water needs and low to no maintenance.
USDA Zone: 9b
Ideal light conditions: Full sun to partial shade
Ideal water conditions: Moderate in summer. Dry in winter.
Mature Height: 4' - 6'
Mature Width: 4' - 6'
