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HAVE: Agave Americana Marginata (yellow striped agave)
Comments (1)I have some type of soft varigated yucca (green with wide yellow stripe down center) if you would like to trade....See Morebok choy flowers?**newbie alert**
Comments (22)This is such a confusing old thread that I can understand how it just generates more questions and how there is probably a reluctance by some to step in with any answers. Let me just say what I do: I grow bok choy each year and try to have it for as much of the growing season as possible. That means I sow seed and resow seed. I move plants around first out of the greenhouse and also where the bok choy seedlings are a little too crowded in a seed bed. Bok choy seems to bolt fairly easily. I think it bolts when it is stressed by too much cold just as it does when conditions are hot and dry. There is probably only a fairly narrow window when its growth is optimum but this doesn't mean it is unusable all the rest of the season! As far as treating it as a cut-and-come-again when harvesting leaves: I've never done that and I've grown bok choy for a good 20 years. The flower buds are a different story, however. Sure, if it would take a half dozen of your plants to make a fork-full and the plants are already bolting - you haven't got much going in the bok choy patch. But, if your baby bok choy is as big around as your wrist and it starts to send a flower stalk up - get that and bring it into the kitchen! Even if the little yellow flowers have started to open -- to me, that flower stalk is the sweetest part of the plant and is often, plenty tender! It would be a shame, to my way of thinking, to throw that plant in the compost. The lower leaves, however, are probably too tough to enjoy. But, if you've got 1 good-sized flower stalk, chances are, you will get a couple more off that plant in a few days. Of course, they will be smaller. Yes, tender little bok choy leaves are great. And, if they have begun to bolt - their season is coming to an end. All the more reason to have seed going in the ground just about every week. You may have to take a month or 2 off from sowing bok choy seed but get back to it as the temperatures begin to drop in late summer. Bok choy makes a fine fall crop here and probably where you garden, also. Steve...See MoreHAVE: Agave Americana Marginata (yellow striped agave)
Comments (1)do you still have Yucca whipplei offshoots.....i would like two..........i have lots of cacti and succulents.......................See MoreAgave flowering ?
Comments (2)Hello and welcome! It sure looks like it is in the process of flowering to me. Unfortunately, the plant will die after doing so, but I believe it takes awhile. Fortunately, it looks like you have a couple behind it to take it's place! Others will soon chime in to correct me if I'm mistaken. Nancy...See MorePKponder TX Z7B
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