Rare South Texas Agaves that Grow on Ancient Oyster Beds

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Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

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in this video we check out some of the most beautiful habitat in all of South Texas and inspect the only two native species of agave known from the region. both of these species grow on a substrate composed of 50 million year old oyster fossils.
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@ryanak817
@ryanak817 10 ай бұрын
Im 42, an ex-con and addict among other things. I just finished my first semester for a horticulture degree with a 4.0 GPA. I really do owe that to you and your videos man, I really appreciate them. Plants have been to only constant to bring me any peace, so I owe them too.
@geoffbreen2386
@geoffbreen2386 10 ай бұрын
If only more people would stop and consider plants and their surroundings, the world could be a much better place.
@Bc232klm
@Bc232klm 10 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your story. This channel has brought peace to me as well over the years ❤️
@ulalaFrugilega
@ulalaFrugilega 10 ай бұрын
More power to ya, mate! And peace, too.
@MrEiht
@MrEiht 10 ай бұрын
Peace? From plants? They are like wicked, drunken teenager with no comon sense or mercy. Yes, I love them, nearly all. But wont get any peace from them...taking clones and repotting and more work :)
@yusufalfyfer9415
@yusufalfyfer9415 10 ай бұрын
Good luck with your future brother peace from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤❤
@doppenheim64
@doppenheim64 10 ай бұрын
Love you, kiddo! So glad I kept you home from school in 4th grade to help me plant our garden.😘
@CarlosGarcia-mi4lh
@CarlosGarcia-mi4lh 10 ай бұрын
Joey, you are a National Treasure. We are fortunate to have you.
@ulalaFrugilega
@ulalaFrugilega 10 ай бұрын
International
@anaritamartinho1340
@anaritamartinho1340 10 ай бұрын
I always love to see cactus in habitat
@myrmepropagandist
@myrmepropagandist 10 ай бұрын
Iove it when you do the close ups of the little plants.
@Bc232klm
@Bc232klm 10 ай бұрын
Me too ❤️
@JR_Villablanca-de-Mendoza
@JR_Villablanca-de-Mendoza 10 ай бұрын
Hell yeah that echinocactus looks so beautifully shaped and so nice out there in the desert; so much better than in anyone’s garden collection.
@JoseFloresEC
@JoseFloresEC 10 ай бұрын
Having a tatoo to measure length of plants/stuff is ingenious haha
@deohere7647
@deohere7647 10 ай бұрын
Man those Peyotes are beautiful. The whole area is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
@jedimindtrixr4kidz294
@jedimindtrixr4kidz294 10 ай бұрын
ngl, only reason I subbed years ago lol
@sagetmaster4
@sagetmaster4 10 ай бұрын
Wow those water storage cells protecting the chlorophyll rich cells is so cool! Also shout out Swainson's hawks for doing that western prairie to chile/Argentina migration. Those lucky hawks get two summers and are migrating over the tropics during spring/fall
@thebassoonman2020
@thebassoonman2020 10 ай бұрын
Seeing agaves in situ is life changing. Went to Arizona and saw them everywhere. Now I have an obsession 😂
@Tminus89
@Tminus89 10 ай бұрын
Very interesting, loved it. These landscapes look very alien to me, because I live in Europe (The Netherlands). It always fascinates me to watch videos like yours. Also, beautiful dog! My first thought was Australian Cattle Dog mixed with something bigger like a shepherd. Am I warm haha? Or a Scottish Shepherd shorthair mix.. I only discovered my love for plants recently, while dogs have always been an important part of my life :)
@earthnotforgotten
@earthnotforgotten 10 ай бұрын
Peaceful and beautiful. That pattern in the agave is insane
@richardtyree9384
@richardtyree9384 10 ай бұрын
Agave Are Cool....❤😊
@Mynameismudd67
@Mynameismudd67 10 ай бұрын
Leathery fuck here loving your stuff.
@chucktaylor4958
@chucktaylor4958 10 ай бұрын
Beautiful species rich parcel of botanical heaven.
@krissteel4074
@krissteel4074 10 ай бұрын
Often interests me how the native people's would have moved through these kind of environments, given they're full of hard, hot and sharp rocks. Then the plants are almost universally very spiny or spiked right at the level to poke you in the eyeball or fill you foot with thorns. I've walked around in semi-arid and scrub lands when I was young and allowed to go hike in nature for 3-4 days or a week, but the plant life was much different to Texas and you sort of learned very quickly how to live with and move through it.
@pamelapilling6996
@pamelapilling6996 10 ай бұрын
Hope you had a great Christmas Joey. Thanks for the look at the plants.
@user-oz1pw8jr7s
@user-oz1pw8jr7s 10 ай бұрын
So appreciate you. Live in Eastern Wa. Trying to do my part for the insects and mammals that share this earth.
@Bc232klm
@Bc232klm 10 ай бұрын
Thank you ❤️
@edreasner44
@edreasner44 10 ай бұрын
Totally dig your videos
@raphlvlogs271
@raphlvlogs271 10 ай бұрын
agaves are usually salt tolerant as well they can often be found growing on coastal rocks and low sea cliffs
@bobbywright3479
@bobbywright3479 10 ай бұрын
Love it Joey!
@Joey-vw1id
@Joey-vw1id 10 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas Joey!
@PlayMoGame
@PlayMoGame 10 ай бұрын
23:15 Bug nerd here, those are ailanthus webworm moths
@janewhite2331
@janewhite2331 10 ай бұрын
I hope you and your family had an enjoyable Christmas
@spicychilicrisp
@spicychilicrisp 10 ай бұрын
Another epic video Joey - camera’s got some crazy zoom
@mpv9866
@mpv9866 8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the look at louisianica! I learn so much from you, certainly many others do as well! 🙏💚
@Lance.pigman
@Lance.pigman 10 ай бұрын
Agave just wants to grow! They don’t even care what the soil looks like
@jasonscott7803
@jasonscott7803 8 ай бұрын
Love your work Bro and as an Australian the footage of you here is some of my favourite but it's always enjoyable to hear your dulcet tone and the extent of your knowledge is outstanding and highly educational, thanks for what you do Buddy.👍✌️
@nowolwo2745
@nowolwo2745 10 ай бұрын
awesome thank you
@kweeshaatekneepunam2507
@kweeshaatekneepunam2507 10 ай бұрын
🎉🎉Long form video content WOOOOOOO! 🎉🎉
@jamesrjohanniii774
@jamesrjohanniii774 10 ай бұрын
Marigold Tribe ?? Ok I love 💓 this plants classification ahould have a TRIBE !! LOL
@charlesdeuter
@charlesdeuter 10 ай бұрын
This one was a real banger!
@gavinspencer2308
@gavinspencer2308 10 ай бұрын
Hey great video as always! Your videos on the texas thornscrub were some of the first I saw of your videos and they continue to be some of my favorite ecosystems to see you botanize. Such a neat habitat and plant community overall. I plan to eventually see it myself some day! Also I wanted to mention that the orange insects you called beetles are actually lepidopterans, ailanthus webworm moths to be more specific. They're pretty awesome, I highly recommend taking a closer look next time you see one or at least looking at some close up photos because the pattern is just incredible! I'm super into entomology and arthropods in general among other things and I have a mounted specimen of this species I collected a few years back in Oklahoma. Anyway sorry to ramble lol, merry late Christmas and a happy new year, love what you do man! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus_webworm
@TheRedKnight101
@TheRedKnight101 10 ай бұрын
It's amazing how the spread of the invasive Tree of Heaven from China widened the range of a cool moth from South Florida
@gavinspencer2308
@gavinspencer2308 8 ай бұрын
​@TheRedKnight101 yes! Sometimes its not all bad. Moths especially can often be more generalistic in the plants they feed on and lepidopterans overall are somewhat adaptable to utilize what plants are available, even if they're not a natural food source.
@whatilearnttoday5295
@whatilearnttoday5295 10 ай бұрын
I have my first Mammillaria herderi fruit ripening as of yesterday. Off and running!
@baronsamedi7304
@baronsamedi7304 10 ай бұрын
Always a good walkabout and rant bud, moisturize or youll end up looking like Larry King
@christine9536
@christine9536 10 ай бұрын
Love you, weirdo, or at least I love the work you do. Keep posting vids and I'll keep forcing people to watch them because holy shit these vids are important.
@thartwig
@thartwig 10 ай бұрын
City politicians will be highly offended by this episode.
@ntacms90
@ntacms90 10 ай бұрын
Look if you wanted native plants planted maybe you should have had a cousin Vinny on the city council like the current landscaping contractor.
@SpecialSoldier109
@SpecialSoldier109 10 ай бұрын
I live by joshua tree and have been collecting wild seed to fix my yard, old owner thought oleander was the way to go but i wanna have a bit more vegegation before i remove the oleander
@ulalaFrugilega
@ulalaFrugilega 10 ай бұрын
18:28 what a beautiful shot!
@LukeMcGuireoides
@LukeMcGuireoides 10 ай бұрын
Ya know, I think that place used to be a massive oyster bed. Correct me if I'm wrong
@snuugumz
@snuugumz 10 ай бұрын
End ‘O The Year Gratitude Checklist circa 28th December 2023: i am grateful for, above and beyond all else, the fact that Joey brought his sidekick, his best bud and literal road dawg, Cap’n Jack, out in da cut while the weather is nice. The way some folks treat their pets like disposable inconveniences is fucking appalling and disgusting. If you ain’t ready to have a roommate for about 15 years, give or take, then DON’T GET A DOG. Oh, ya gotta move? TAKE YOUR DOG WITH YOU. It might cost ya more but tough shit, pal. Anyways, yeah: real men don’t bail on them what depend on him. I am grateful for the land and the mountains and gorgeous deserts of Texas, in spite of greed-based residents and politicians, and the drunk driver who killed my paternal grandfather in 1962. I am filled with gratitude every single time I read the comments and realize that the generations of now and of yet to be are not a pack of drooling fuckwits(for the most part), and we might just survive ourselves. FINALLY~ i am grateful to have crawled back out of that bottle 21 years ago, and stayed out. I am grateful for KZbin for sort of being what we were promised the Interwebs would be. Also, something I never ever thought would come true ! Can you guess?!? That’s right. FREE INTERNET PORN!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR, TO ALL O’ Y’ALL. And many mooooore!
@katiekane5247
@katiekane5247 10 ай бұрын
Ya also need to be prepared to care for them if/when something happens. They become your responsibility and if you're just after something cool for your yard, get a gnome. A pack animal forced to live alone is miserable, treated like a pack member, they'll give their life to protect yours. I'm grateful to have been raised by a pack, raised my kid and grandson in one. Grandog got as many presents as the grandson lol So cool for this old lady to see the interest Joey has brought to native plants. Been my groove a long time 😊
@snuugumz
@snuugumz 10 ай бұрын
@@katiekane5247 preach, sistah! 😎💋
@cameronstoneadams1183
@cameronstoneadams1183 10 ай бұрын
Drops everything to watch crime pays..
@richardlynch1094
@richardlynch1094 10 ай бұрын
Fuck lotion! Here's to us leathery old fucking botanists Joe!
@helenpatterson3858
@helenpatterson3858 10 ай бұрын
Wow ! I never knew that there were vining varieties of ephedra !
@Rectitude4U
@Rectitude4U 10 ай бұрын
So entertaining.
@01251974
@01251974 10 ай бұрын
So cool!
@nepmobile3583
@nepmobile3583 10 ай бұрын
Nice
@billpuppies
@billpuppies 10 ай бұрын
What I have heard, ants are the primary seed-distributor of those low-lying cacti. I heard it from a guy who said that most peyoteros do not even know that.
@sass-gc6cw
@sass-gc6cw 10 ай бұрын
Great video but i think you (like me!) need your reading glasses more, your small beetles feeding on Nahuatlea hypoleuca are Ailanthus Webworm Moths, does its native foodplant (Simarouba) occur there or is it helping to control Ailanthus
@deerdy1315
@deerdy1315 10 ай бұрын
I got that variation on my Ephedra when I dug up some roots and left them out open to the sun with the rest of the roots still in the ground
@ulalaFrugilega
@ulalaFrugilega 10 ай бұрын
What variation?
@Heughjhass
@Heughjhass 10 ай бұрын
Just out of curiosity how much organic material is in that oyster shell material? Just wondering how much builds up vs gets blown or flushed away. Have to admit im fascinated by that terrain and habitat. Thanks for sharing the detail shots.
@geoffbreen2386
@geoffbreen2386 10 ай бұрын
I don't know but it appears negligible. That UV, heat and dry air would be cracking up any organic matter on top of the oyster beds and would wash down easily.
@katiekane5247
@katiekane5247 10 ай бұрын
😊Gold bond foot cream Joey, it's the shit and pretty cheap. It's also kinda like I'm not following directions to use it on my hands 😊
@emilioburgess8871
@emilioburgess8871 10 ай бұрын
What do you say about paddock/AMP/grazing in west central Texas? Is it too good to be true or is it bullshit? Carbon cowboys documentary and reading a bit about it has me feeling optimistic.
@brandon9172
@brandon9172 10 ай бұрын
Limestoneee not shell. There are habitats with sigificant amounts of nondegraded shell but those are on the coast.
@colettehaskell9133
@colettehaskell9133 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing such a fucking beautiful day with us! You're amazing Jack❤ besos beautiful pero viejo
@JamesGalipeau-h7i
@JamesGalipeau-h7i 10 ай бұрын
"Horse Crippler" Respect.
@RobinMarks1313
@RobinMarks1313 10 ай бұрын
I think you're correct about the blue being from the calcium. . Calcium carbonate will turn blue with copper and will is called Blue Calcite. It will turn water that cool aqua green blue.
@ulrichminky9495
@ulrichminky9495 10 ай бұрын
Just noticing your fingertips in some of the closeups. They look like mine. Do you happen to play a stringed instrument?? Cheers from Canada. ~ulrich
@myrmepropagandist
@myrmepropagandist 10 ай бұрын
There are ants around that area... I can just feel it. What do you have? Pogos? Atta?
@user-vk7cp1op9p
@user-vk7cp1op9p 9 ай бұрын
You look at weedy bits of land where no one else looks for anything, except someone who lost a tool off the top if their car driving down the highway.
@joselvillarreal3158
@joselvillarreal3158 10 ай бұрын
Is that the Santa Ana wildlife refuge?
@robertgarriock2018
@robertgarriock2018 3 ай бұрын
Cute orange moth is Ailanthus Webworm.
@jamesrjohanniii774
@jamesrjohanniii774 10 ай бұрын
I would love to see his seed stash ! Also does anyone have a good source of info for native plants and trees for the houston area ? So tired of the seas of non native grass and plants.🤮 Drain a bayou xlear xut a forrest for a lawn !?? Or concrete "Urbanite"
@raphlvlogs271
@raphlvlogs271 10 ай бұрын
some Ephedras can produce a psychoactive effect when smoked
@Toddis
@Toddis 10 ай бұрын
Wow there's an ephedra antisyphillitica too?
@OperationDarkside
@OperationDarkside 10 ай бұрын
19:35 Somehow the video went silent there. Couldn't hear a thing, sorry.
@MizMissiB
@MizMissiB 10 ай бұрын
Try taking cuttings of the woody plant specimens and root them
@user-vk7cp1op9p
@user-vk7cp1op9p 10 ай бұрын
The plants are beautiful, but hide in the desert as I pass by, so I do not notice them at first. I wouldn't see them, unless I was with someone like you, who would describe how these plants have long secret mouthful names and are like Borrowers beneath the floorboards, that these are beneath the sea shell soil, showing only their tops or proboscis above the sand, and seem to be a counter revolution in miniature, with spikes, prickers, and hairs in miniature! Also, these plants, both cactus and succulents, swear profusely, under their breath, allegiance only to you, to use that as a veil to hide all but their tops under a deep blue sky unless you whisper profanity so they show their secret names, and come out to shine for you, the plant whisperer.
@jackwood8307
@jackwood8307 10 ай бұрын
@Greenmahn333
@Greenmahn333 23 күн бұрын
👍
@HyrimBot
@HyrimBot 10 ай бұрын
shea butta brotha
@cav3man360
@cav3man360 10 ай бұрын
I wonder what ur favorite region of the world is now?
@MizMissiB
@MizMissiB 10 ай бұрын
A lot of times when you find a bunch of oyster shells like that, it’s from the Indians who harvested them and left the shells.
@featheredfan
@featheredfan 10 ай бұрын
Horse Crippler Cactus! 👍 Ailanthus Webworm Moth! 👍 (not a beetle)
@ac-hh1pg
@ac-hh1pg 10 ай бұрын
gotta love a good desert cryptogamic crust!
@johngreenway1840
@johngreenway1840 4 ай бұрын
Honestly how do you know all of this
@MrEiht
@MrEiht 10 ай бұрын
Agave are like the Aloe of the sea. Or so...
@ecomandurban7183
@ecomandurban7183 10 ай бұрын
I can send you some Cenchrus ciliaris seed from South Africa to fill in all those horrid bare patches
@deerdy1315
@deerdy1315 10 ай бұрын
Yung and leathery
@ronm3245
@ronm3245 9 ай бұрын
What the _Hechtia_ think yer doin?
@uwusmolbean
@uwusmolbean 10 ай бұрын
Sotol, "sword plant"
@matthewsmeds101
@matthewsmeds101 10 ай бұрын
F cool.
@isabeedemski3635
@isabeedemski3635 10 ай бұрын
Friend grows agave for alcahol
@BRIANJAMESGIBB
@BRIANJAMESGIBB 10 ай бұрын
"...research station.." !?!? Who, what, where, when, why?????
@theguything
@theguything 10 ай бұрын
Sometimes Life is a Bunch of Tubes, gfyb
@JennyBesserit
@JennyBesserit 10 ай бұрын
Thornscrub. I always forget the name of that ecosystem.
@jonathonalsum9063
@jonathonalsum9063 9 ай бұрын
When you get touch ups on your fingure measure... please share here. 🤓😎
@wiwingmargahayu6831
@wiwingmargahayu6831 10 ай бұрын
meminer youtube channel
@junkettarp8942
@junkettarp8942 10 ай бұрын
Your a leather old thing now Joey.
@Nphen
@Nphen 10 ай бұрын
Have you ever thought to go visit Shaun Overton Dustups ( @DustupsTexas ) while you're in Texas? I'm sensing a crossover episode!
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