AGAVE PARRYI

ORIGIN AND CHARACTERISTICS

The Agave Parryi, also known as "Maguey Mezcal" or "Penca", is endemic to northern Mexico and the Southwest of the United States, more specifically Arizona. It belongs to the Amarilidaceae family.

It is found within the rosette-shaped succulent plants, where the globose leaves are very close to each other and there can be up to 160 wide and grayish leaves, the maximum height that they can reach is 4 meters high. In this species the leaves have thorns on the edges of these culminating in the tip with a long reddish spine.

Its flowers are born with inflorescences that branch and reach 5 meters in height, these flowers being yellowish or orange colors. And finally the plant dies after this flowering giving suckers so that the species does not become extinct.

DECORATION OF ... EXTERIOR OR INTERIOR?

This species can be included both outdoors and indoors, if we want to incorporate it into our garden, it is generally used for gardens dedicated to cacti and succulents in groups of several of these plants together in a rockery, although we can also keep them in jars conditioned to the needs this.

You can also have it at home when it is not big, in a bright place with a pot that drains well.

CARE FOR CACTUS AND SUCCULENTS

They are showy plants, very pretty and that practically do not need much maintenance.

- They prefer places with direct light or that have good lighting, preferably next to a window, on a balcony, a terrace or in your Garden.

- They can withstand low temperatures, around -15ºC.

- It is essential that they have good drainage, both in the soil and in a pot.

- The ideal substrate for cacti has to be combined with sand and gravel, so that they have good drainage, humidity and excess water are not good.

- Irrigation does not have to be excessive. From spring to autumn, which would be its growth period, water every 15 days, abundant watering and wait until the soil is very dry again. In winter do not water or give one watering per month.

- Fertilizer. During the growing season (spring - autumn) you can fertilize them with worm humus. Eggshells are a good homemade fertilizer, they contain (Calcium, Iron, Potassium, magnesium and Phosphorus) these nutrients are very important and favor their growth, you must crush and mix them with the substrate, administer them a couple of times a year.

- Treatment against fungi due to excess humidity, disinfect the area with a copper-based fungicide.

- If you want to transplant them from the pot or the ground, the best time would be from spring.

And don't forget that to work with cacti you have to wear good glove

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