The Strange and Wonderful Aztekium ritteri

[@Eighthplanetglass]

That ad was a literal work of art

[@thequietpart_]

If you’re looking for ad-free art in an opener… Orchid dungeon part 2

[@Eighthplanetglass]

@@thequietpart_ I loved those vids! I'll have to remind myself how it starts 😂 but ads or not, these guys are characters and I dig it.

[@Eighthplanetglass]

@@thequietpart_ 😂 Ahh yes, blinking out the window to the blockbuster rant... That was freaking gold

[@greatnorthernexotic]

Just bought my first seed grown aztekium. Incredible to see these in habitat - thank you 👏

[@sam_so-so]

"Look at all deez goddamn rocks!" -me on every hike.

[@glasno]

Lmao! Same

[@X3R0D3D]

just got back from the river with a trunk full of rocks :D

[@galeparker1067]

Well put!! Isn't Joey great!!! 🥰👍🇨🇦

[@stickfinderz]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@lionscircle4700]

Al Skorch's intro was clutch. Loved that monotone (educational voicing via projectors from back in the day) bit on the outro as well.

[@Nobody-cw4wm]

Thank you so much for showing us that extraordinary habitat. I can see why you feel the way you do about plants and rocks and things. Always a pleasure to come along on your adventures….gfy!

[@publicutility]

Thanks for the therapy. ✌💖🤘

[@mazer4112]

Bro you can repeat yourself 855,000,000× a second if you wish. Your knowledge of plants and your fucking enthusiasm is absolutely king in my world!!! Your videos tap in to that pure enthusiasm for learning and I love that you share that in your videos. Thanks. PS please be careful and carry an emergency whistle with you. In 2017 I succumbed to the force of gravity super fast and then stopped super fast, destroying my leg in a six foot fall. I had friends with me but have they not been there I would’ve had enough in my little pack (Maxpedition Fat Boy) To use the whistle for help to keep myself warm and dry, to keep myself out of the sun, to have the ability to start a fire, Drink filtered water have a snack, I carry a small flashlight and a headlamp with some extra batteries, a knife etc. It’s amazing how much I have crammed into that small little pack and how much that pack can make a medical situation non-lethal

[@uprightape100]

Thanks, Tony..........only commenting to help with the algorithm.

[@gardengatesopen]

👍

[@gardengatesopen]

The more The better!

[@somethinginnocuousindahouse]

I fckn love the ranty chum intros!! Most enjoyable way of introducing your sponsor and making sure I actually watch that part of the video.

[@davidelliott8324]

I got stuck on your videos after I got sober and found botany to occupy my newfound time. You're great. But now I keep coming back looking for Al Scorch lol. Thanks for the little things!

[@matthewmarsie9457]

Your boy doing the ad reads is a fuckin treasure

[@yfrontsguy]

You can go on repeating yourself as long as you like Tony! Amazing plants are always such a huge pleasure to watch. Knowing that I'll never go to this place myself. I briefly saw a cheilanthoid fern, myriopteris? My favourite pteridophytes along with lycophytes. This place is heaven!

[@seti3bb]

“These nerdy cactus guys” idk if I feel called out or complimented 😂

[@MalunoMcSketch]

Best adds on KZbin

[@Kodexsilver7114]

Love this energy man! So Inspirational honestly having lovely appreciation for these organisms

[@stg8831]

Always good to see Alan out there as well

[@barrypoontang]

"look at dat, tiny little shits" if only David Attenborough gave such colorful narration....

[@normanbell7883]

(from Diana Shallard) thank you before i've even listened. I think i can breathe out. Thank you both. Dogs too.

[@gigi3242]

Thanks for risking life and limb to share this with us. Take care.

[@glasno]

$4 a sheet? I'll buy them all!

[@MissEwe]

Notification gang! Botany is awesome but geology rocks 🪨

[@UberAlphaSirus]

Botany will grow on you.

[@MissEwe]

@@UberAlphaSirus good 1 👍

[@MissEwe]

@No way 🤣🤣

[@guynamedkyle]

I haven't got a notification in 3-4 weeks 🤔maybe I'm shadow banned.......

[@gardengatesopen]

Good one! Now I want a bumper sticker Or ANY sticker that says: Botany will grow on you

[@johnwatson984]

I didn't know a vulgar Chicago native was who I needed to really get into botany, but I'm pleasantly surprised.

[@Toddis]

I just got some UV compression sleeves to deal with the sun, they're really useful

[@lacolo]

I think this is the first time I've liked a video when I realized the part I was watching was an add

[@Beofware]

Best ad yet

[@sjmazzoli]

thank you tony joe...gfy..even with all your anger you can still show people cool stuff...

[@frankcowan6625]

Anger is a gift. Hugs.

[@katiekane5247]

Only other person I know who can go to an area & remember where the plants were. I can't find my own stuff but remember exactly where something grew. Good shit as always!

[@TealCheetah]

That's some beautiful scenery!

[@helenpatterson3858]

Thank you for bringing us along pn this amazing outing.

[@NicoBirknicnoc]

Nice Episode tony Good night

[@Alaspoorwho]

''Doesn't it put everything in context, huh? Vast amounts of time, think about all the dumb shit you worry about, you stress over... until you come out here and see Aztekium growing on a 500,000 year old alluvial deposit.''

[@yaddahaysmarmalite4059]

makes me want to throw down a soda can to remind everyone that a modern human supporting the economy was there.

[@b0tanica]

The vertical habit super fascinating. You see this a lot with the native Dudleya species where I live! Hopefully I get to see these in habitat one day. 🤘

[@lindashankland5056]

Always appreciated! 👍

[@dutchvonderlinde1693]

this is absolutelly beautiful and mind-altering to see all these a. ritteri in wild, thanks so much. highly underrated video this is insane, century old cacti in this video !

[@bibianarobledo4737]

Amazing! I’m glad that there are still healthy populations of this astonishingly beautiful plant. It has been pouched almost to extinction in nature. Fun fact regarding it’s geometry: It is featured in the book “Plants of the Gods”. It has some potent alkaloids. Imagine the experience…. But please, don’t eat an endangered plant. Saludos from Mexico

[@gi10]

This is by far one of the most exciting video of seeing the same species of cacti throughout the video and few others and I watched it all without skipping it. I was looking for more information on this particular species, as I was about to purchase. Thanks for the video

[@capichinola1151]

I literally saw the small town i live in when you were on google earth.... take me with you to look for cacti please ahahaha Great video like always!!

[@michaelmonkey6541]

Tony! God bless you brother.....

[@seanbarnett9406]

These sort of videos of you just in awe of plant life and geology are just beautiful Like this is the sort of stuff that gets people into botany

[@brandoncheek2597]

These fuckers are really neat. I've grown some from seed, they're slower than anything i've grown. Germination rates were terrible. They do well as grafts but they didn't root well for me after chopping.

[@itzelpretzel]

Awesome video, what a crazy little species just hanging out in an absurd habitat. I wonder what pressured it off the horizontal ground all those millenia ago?

[@emmitstewart1921]

If you think about it that crazy little species creates that absurd habitat. The cactus roots run back between the rocks and prevent the soil from washing away in rainy weather and blowing away in drought. That creates a stable surface for the selaginella and lichens to attach themselves, then they create a shelter for the cactus seedlings. the eternal sameness of the place is impressive. Fat Donald will grow senile, die, and rot in his grave and these plants will just sit there quietly and maybe grow a whole quarter inch.

[@PenntuckytheCrag]

Beautiful double ending !!

[@crissangelmtz]

What amazing video! I'm from Monterrey and one of my weekend's hobbies Is take my car and go for there, walk under the sun, take a lot of pictures of this plants and at the end of the day drink a cold beer. Nice to see a foreinger enjoy our ecological riches. Note: in this same lands live another of my favs, ariocarpus scaphirostris.

[@GrimLogic]

Real nice of you to help out Al in his time of need but did you ever pay him back for those pizzas though?

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

No. And I still got his brad nailer. Tough shit, Al.

[@GrimLogic]

@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt thats cold blooded

[@madbullen]

Thank you for this amazing video!

[@herbbirdsfoot]

I grow my single Aztekium ritteri outside in a terra cotta pot where it’s been for at least fifteen years. I don’t water it much! Especially I keep it dry in winter. I love seeing them in habitat so thanks for this. Also, i gotta say that while the flowers are on the smaller side (less than inch across) they are incredibly beautiful. Less “fabulous and showy” and more “sublime and perfect.”

[@TheStorm357]

Dude, you make botany fun. Thank you for doing what you do.

[@MrEiht]

Thank you for this wonderful footage. This is my most beloved plant species. Sky daddy knows I love 'em all but the Aztekium species is just too wicked.

[@dama9150]

I love the quiet long shots over the broader landscape. GFY, bye.

[@undyingjman04]

"Do ya eveer see that when you're on about 5 grams dried psilocybin?" Yes Tony, in fact I do lol.

[@ManzanitaStarwood]

But wait, there’s more! Awesome. Hope no one poaches these beauties.

[@mjmj2860]

BEAUTIFUL Tony thank-you becarful up there so high!❤🌵❤ I sure hope nature survives.😎

[@diannacooper1809]

Lmao! Really an awesome video! I truly hope no one finds that area and those kids are able to flourish there for another 100 years!

[@zacktimmons2886]

Amazing add lol. I’ve never said that. Good job dude

[@heavymetalpermaculture]

Needed this positivity today....this week....this month? This year?

[@philgriffiths5514]

Great to see the habitat where these beauties live. And after the destruction of Ario site good to see so many plants and seedlings.

[@lucazsy]

That ad healed me.

[@pistolswing]

Tiny succulents. Nice. Esplendor Geometrico!

[@rriflemann308]

Al is a treasure.

[@frankcowan6625]

Tony, Hello. I also have a blue diamond on my left hand finger as you. Mine is part of my lucky charms symbols. What is your for if anything? Thanks.

[@andybaldman]

Fingering his girlfriend.

[@andginisin]

This is S tier Crime Pays. ❤️

[@newmanmansell760]

Amazing place😌🤲💖The Aztekium ritteri has a unique way it grows on those Limestone cliffs, and being nursed as seedlings amongst mosses and lichens👍That's interesting stuff. Hopefully the ritteri is widely cultivated and every collector has one or more and that amazing unique habitat will be left alone🙏

[@xXScissorHandsXx]

I thought I clicked on the wrong video but wasn't a let down 😜 that ad read was one for the ages 👌

[@gardengatesopen]

A 20 year old seedling! Ohhhhh, if only the plants could talk...

[@Ghostofchristmasfuture]

I’d watch that sponsored bit on its own, great job.

[@jacolursen1145]

This is absolutely amazing! Mountain full of next level gems💚💚💚

[@aidanreilly8337]

This is such an evolution

[@pokeitwithastick7869]

Another great video-I think you were thinking of larimar? "The turquoise of the Caribbean" it's been called. "Larimar is an exquisite turquoise to teal blue colored gemstone; they are found deep within the jungle clad volcanic mountains of the Dominican Republic And I'd have kept that rock (in your hand lower left at 2:44) Even if it wasn't turquoise (As a specimen and reminder of being on that trip/at that place) So, was it turquoise or??? Anybody know? Based on local and visual from video?

[@JP-kp5ph]

I'd pay you and your buddy to make ads for TV. I just crack up through the whole duration every time.

[@falenone]

That's a cool channel. I want to learn more about some fucking plants. Let's learn about some plants

[@William_Hada]

I wondered why that pile of rocks stood together for so long. It's because they took a "Lichen" to each other :P

[@greenbeecolony1911]

Music to my ears

[@emmanuelmartinez9953]

Please make a video on cycads ❤️❤️❤️

[@Erewhon2024]

Very Chicago.

[@patrickblock2477]

Love the double ending!

[@science_and_anonymous]

Looks like you found some copper carbonate!

[@scotchvelo]

Al Scorch, funny as hell...also an amazing musician on the killer Bloodshot Records.

[@eccoakadicco]

I don't know if I'm delighted or saddened by the fact I know many fellas like the man with that soliloquy in the beginning.

[@ek8710]

That was a brilliant sponsor spot lol Aren't those rocks turquoise agate?

[@danieltoquothty4967]

would like to see you go to the Witchita mountains in Oklahoma sometime

[@yaddahaysmarmalite4059]

i could look at a sheer cliff face full of aztekium for hours. 20 minutes is just an introduction.

[@danielmaidana3268]

07:42 Maybe Mammillaria lasiacantha?

[@dasja9966]

Does anybody know the name of the little dried up plant (not the cacti) shown at 6:44? Reminds me very much of a tiny 'rose of jericho' (Anastatica hierochuntica) but i'm pretty sure it's not that. Hope somebody can tell me a bit more about it.

[@hardwarefromthegarbage3446]

Looks like selaginella

[@mjturner916]

imagine if everything was hydrated

[@Nobody-cw4wm]

I wondered that myself, what a sight that would be eh?

[@zoutewand]

Perfect time to catch poachers is after it rained. The rain will hydrate the cacti so it'll have it easier with the kidnapping and the ground isn't as rock hard as normal so digging up the plant is easier. I wanna see Tony beat up some poachers

[@alandonaly457]

Thanks the video was cool as ever gfyb.

[@PapiCthulu2]

I was so confused why I couldn't click and pass on the commercial at the start. Lol

[@lesterandrews1894]

I Love your channel,,

[@jdion79]

Holy fahck the Al Scorch stuff leaves me in stitches!!! Why would he have the camera set up??? Hahaha!

[@ZE308AC]

TONY needs to do a t-shirt design with Home Despit

[@lophoflora]

Amazing!

[@phillram1437]

This video is good. To bad poachers in time will take all those plants to sell them to Europe, Asia, and the U.S.

[@ofcourseofcoursebutmaybe]

Good company!!!!

[@kathysquiers8698]

LOVE YOUR POSTS!!! thought you would get a kick with the Vogue clip! )

[@guynamedkyle]

What is a Vogue clip?

[@gardengatesopen]

Yeah, what's a vogue clip?

[@kathysquiers8698]

@@gardengatesopen did the link not go thru? It was a post of someone's garden plants with Madonna singing "Strike a pose" from her song Vogue...it just made me laugh and think of you showcasing the spectacular world of plants 😃

[@gardengatesopen]

@@kathysquiers8698 ohhhhhh, yeah - no. The link did not go thru. Sounds delightful & funny tho!

[@richardlynch1094]

Not nearly enough profanity for my tastes, but you do you. Lol

[@ZE308AC]

Tony needs to collect rain water so he can water those stressed out plants. It might not be a good idea.

[@herbbirdsfoot]

Aztekium ritteri has one of my favorite cactus flowers. Really beautiful! Not super showy, just … sublime. [hopefully this comment doesn’t trip the moderation filter]

[@GeraldBlack1]

Keep keepin it real, or whatever.

[@michaelnancyamsden7410]

Very entertaining...

[@flyemhard]

good one......

[@uncletrash8770]

Hey Joey, that was the best ad read ever. Ever. Ya prick.

[@wesleydavis3387]

There’s always someone with a box truck around Manheim