How to Remove Agave Quadricolor Pups and Clean Your Barrel Cactus

Agave's pup like crazy and the babies can find themselves in unwanted areas. For example, next to this barrel cactus. It isn't as daunting of a task if you have gloves, a shovel, and your handy dandy multi-tool aka clippers.

[@janeschmidt9611]

I love finding pups from all my succulents. I feel like a proud mama! Thanks for showing us the cactus seeds. That’s a new one for me. 🥰

[@jacdavis9]

LOVED LOVED seeing the seed on the barrel - and I hope to god you finished picking those blooms off, you could have kept going to satisfy the other OCD viewers, lol, I enjoyed every pick!

[@mariagdaws6083]

Hi Laura Your videos seem to come out in the morning our time Perfect time to inspire me to get outside in the garden Yesterday , after watching you, I prepared a herb garden in a self watering planter for my daughter, I will bring it to her when we are allowed to visit again I used pieces from my established plants and a planter I had hanging around I am so thankful we have a garden, it helps keep me sane at this time Virtual hugs to you 🥰❤️🌹

[@danielbarrera9636]

Congrats on 80K subscribers!!! Yaaaaay!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@northeasthardytropicals541]

What a great looking landscape. Nice info here 👍🏼 🌵

[@michellesoares356]

I'm watching it again!!! I loved watching you take the blooms off...crushed you cut the video before you were done...it was so much fun watching you pluck them out!

[@hiteshadya]

At4:00am here in India seeing your videos. You videos are always like magnet 🧲

[@glyndagiles5697]

Living in Missouri, I am unable to grow most of the species you highlight however, I enjoy your content immensely! Thank you so much for sharing your extensive experience and knowledge!

[@Fabdanc]

I know! I live in SE Texas... And I think I can get away with most because I drive around and see giant agave in people's yards... But I'm like, it just takes one winter to take out some of the more exotic plants we have around here... Because it's really sad when the tall palms get toasted.

[@gardeninghouseplants1112]

Those giant cactus are so gorgeous!💚🌵

[@anitarohm5031]

Love the agave quadracolor and the barrels, but my eyes keep looking at that ALOE TREE.

[@jimbobimboslice]

Wow, great video. I love Chula Vista. My sister lives down there and I love visiting her on my motorcycle! Too darn hot in Rancho Cucamonga. I just planted about 100 Echinocactus Grusonii seeds, and they are sprouting like crazy!

[@LauraEubanks]

So cool!! I’m going to try growing some from seed, too!

[@christinelee3344]

Very educational, I would have thrown away those flower pods and missed all those seeds. Watching from Trinidad 🇹🇹

[@livdirrengesuasmatsuoka9843]

My grandma loves your amazing humongous Aloe.❤❤

[@jomarielopez2229]

You always inspire us Laura! And I love plants that, "don't care!" Lol!

[@pennylane9155]

Yikes! i have a small tri colour in a pot, i think i will keep it that way for a while, i didn't realise they throw off pups that far away from the mother plant. They can really take over if you don't keep an eye on them can't they! thank you again Laura for more of your gem tips! I am always interested in finding out about the cactus/succulents that may cause a headache by getting too prolific!

[@natashasouliere1786]

As much as you like cleaning up all those spent blooms, it makes me think that you might be a pimple popper. And yeah it looked inappropriate and hilarious! Love your humor...brilliant.

[@teeser2436]

Learn something new from you Laura every video. Thank you!❤️

[@TheEnthusiasticGardener]

I so look forward to all your videos Laura, even though I don’t have one single succulent! You brighten up my day 💕

[@desertplantsofavalon]

WOW thats amazing with all the seeds from the big golden Barrel, and well done on moving the Agave quadricolur pups, its amazing how they can chose the most unlikely of places haha :-D thanks so much for sharing Laura and have a fantastic day XXXX

[@suziewong8437]

Love you Laura & Hanna, you did me proud, along with my OCD can't handle waste and could hear every baby crying out. Hell sound like a nut case hahaha.

[@pauline6063]

So nice. Watching from the philippines ❤️

[@thecrazysoaplady2497]

Love me some of those seeds! And you're tossing them away!! Wahhhh!!! 😉

[@LauraEubanks]

Soooo manyyyyy seedssssss🤦‍♀️😊

[@janebeltran1200]

I didn't know you could do that. I went right outside and pulled them off!

[@sonoranoasis3012]

Don't pull the old flowers from Golden barrel, the birds will pull them out and eat the seed when hungry and will use the fluff to build nests. Let nature happen.

[@cactusandfriends_by_vane]

How cool are those seeds! 😍 I will have let them mature in the plant for the golden yellow colors of the fruits ☺️. I've seen them and Echinocactus grusonii are very festive with their "fruits crown". It is studied that they do approx 90 fruits per year and a matured fruit has on average 492 seeds!😃

[@beverlyasleson3321]

How cute do you give them too the owners to dry and plant/or they can give it away.

[@naturalvee67]

Oh my gosh Laura, please, put those spent blooms/seed sacs in the store! Or do a giveaway. Either way I'd love to try my hand at growing from seed! 😀😁

[@LauraEubanks]

Great idea!!

[@natalievalencia940]

wondering about those smaller pups you pulled out, the ones attached to the barrel, will those survive if you limb them up and place them in soil?

[@rocio-mireyagonzalez3370]

Me en cantan tus vídeos y me gustaría tener un jardín de cactus y suculentas . Pero el clima de Detroit Michigan es muy duro en invierno adoró los cactus tengo algunos dentro de casa y van muy bien . Un saludo enorme

[@lovebri9144]

You are too cute Laura! Please let me know if you ever do a job in northern Cali area. I’d love to volunteer. 😬

[@OCVeritas]

Always so much inspiration in your videos Laura 🤗 In fact you’ve inspired me to experiment with barrel cactus, which I never would have devised on my own. Question for you or anyone of your viewers with experience, is there a minimum distance you’d want to keep a barrel cactus from the sidewalk? I want to pepper a narrow planter running alongside my driveway with some baby barrels (about 7”) and I’m wondering if the space nearest the sidewalk is off limits because of how prickly these plants are. Any advice is much appreciated!

[@jstamps9578]

But i just got IN from playing with my succulents where I found from a Fred Yves stem in my garden of death that has amazingly put out a stem pup. Do all agaves put out such long runners? Or just some like quadricolor?

[@LauraEubanks]

Just some!

[@babybear4524]

Laura,please tell me what tool to use and how best to separate several barrel cactus which have grown together.I wish to remove them from my yard but its too big to lift and there are 5 large barrels all in one big bunch.Please I need your help.Should I use a saw or a shovel or an axe? Ideas please.Thank you so much

[@DixieGirl9876]

Removing those spent blooms from the barrel cactus is like popping zits! haha

[@suzanadealmeida3831]

Oi sou do Brasil e queria comprar cacto 🌵 barril da aí como faço,?

[@bobbiwillmer7491]

Nice! I’m gonna pull all those off my barrel! 🤗🤗

[@jimethechihuahua4979]

Hi cbaker here & watch u everyday,have question for you ,What is the name of the Mexican pottery???

[@LauraEubanks]

Talavera. Thanks so much for watching!

[@altheac4021]

Ooohhhh please feel free to show the barrel cactus all cleaned up! Does it get sun burned after you remove the seed heads? I will be honest, I haven’t been a huge fan of barrel cactus BECAUSE of the dried-crusty tops... I didn’t know you could clean them up and make them look like new!!

[@damaihijau]

Love cactus & succulents.

[@yenliizzillo9067]

What aloe is that please Laura? Is it a barberae? Thank you.

[@LauraEubanks]

It’s a plicitillis hybrid

[@lorithompson9166]

I am afraid to plant quadrecolor agave in my yard. Which agaves don’t send off pups? Thank you!

[@swypr1]

u r so addicting. cant stop sometimes 😎 👍🏼

[@truittrarick8514]

God damn I want that aloe tree, can't find anywhere in northern california to get them.

[@carolecobbold6217]

Thanks for the inspiration!

[@alinaCatwatcher]

Apologies where ever are my manners. I mean to say please send me some of the barrel cactus seeds !! I'd love to try and grow them here in Toronto Canada. :)

[@elenaauro]

i want that agave quadricolor😊 phil.

[@suzanadealmeida3831]

Laura,manda as sementes pra mim aqui no Brasil

[@halaman519]

I wish i have those seeds and germinate it here. Its so rare here in Ph.

[@mvs4880]

Laura... not finishing the barrel cactus cleaning...I love you...but dear Lord please show us the finished product!!!!

[@muneermazlan4492]

Omg so satisfying😍😍😍

[@sheilapendley1716]

Thank You!

[@reyvinkelly1225]

What is the tree thing in the back?

[@LauraEubanks]

That’s an aloe plicitillis hybrid😍

[@gabivsgketologic]

Love it!

[@alinaCatwatcher]

Send me some!

[@chazrawls7600]

Leave the fruits for the wildlife

[@dorindajenkins7825]

👋😄

[@leslieiannottacronin2176]

Every 3 or 4 years I have to remind myself how annoying the thorns on my prickly pear are by handling the plant sans gloves. I never learn.

[@markrhine5116]

your a hoot bouncing on the shovel lol.....

[@jimhdz9332]

i’d love to give you a hand

[@TheLouisamite]

Weee,,, you really have to be kidding me, ,

[@ericssonerick6972]

Thats inappropriate ha ha