Oh. Here's the agave stalk before we cut it off the bonnet. Ben for scale. It's the whole length of the yard, basically, from the house. The woman in the background is about a foot behind it and almost 6 feet tall.
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@benhamill what are you doing with this tree? (is it a tree?) I missed something.
@DialMforMara This is an agave. As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave. The kind we have live for 50-60 years and at the end, they grow this (apparently) enormous fuck-off asparagus-lookin' stalk that grows super tall super fast (like days) and then sprouts those branch-looking things, which it flowers from. The bees went gonzo on those things.
Then it dies and dries up. We expected it to fall over, but it's been dead and drying for about a year, so we decided to cut it down before it+
@DialMforMara Indeed. But it was pretty cool to see it do it's thing over the last year and then see how it worked by taking it apart, as it were.
@DialMforMara +crushed something we didn't own.
Parts of the bonnet (the base part that is the entirety of younger plants) were still full of water and were super gooshey.
These things are Very Serious Plants™. After true Texas fashion, not only are they super pokey and sharp, their sap will also make you super itchy. Apparently if you get too much on you and don't wash it off, it can :fire:burn:fire: you like acid. They're sort of jerks, tbh, but they're so pretty and robust against summer.
@benhamill Wow. That's quite an adventure.