Manfreda Bloodspot Agave - growing it from seeds

So, we live in the High Desert area and I have been looking up cute plants that can survive in our area (xerioscaping??)  Our house has some red undertones (namely bricks) and my favorite color is red, so of course I was looking for some plants that would produce red flowers or have some hint of red in them.

Then I came across the Manfreda Bloodspot Agave plant.  Look at her over there...isnt she so cute?  Plus, I havent seen any of my neighbors that have this plant in their yard.  Its a hybrid plant - created in 2008 so there isnt much information out there on how to grow it and take care of it...So, the inpatient me, decided to put half of the seeds in water for about 2 hours and the other half were not put in the cup of water.  I then planted them using regular soil and put them next to the window sill - kinda awkward since its night, but they can get light tomorrow, they'll get plenty of water tonight.

Then, i decided to Google growing agave's from seeds.  Seems that the information online recommends sterilizing my soil - by putting it in the oven for 30 mins or so.  They also recommend a mixture of soil...I deviated from that and used my .99 store soil, so we'll see if that will work or not.

Apparently, since the Manfreda Bloodspot Agave plant is so new, there's no real blogs/websites on how to get them to grow etc... So i'll keep you guys updated on how my .99 store soil, window sill and Manfreda Bloodspot Agave plants are doing... Hopefully, I can get them to grow.

I would greatly welcome any ideas/suggestions from anyone who has grown this plant and had success with it, just leave me a comment.  If i'm not successful, with this batch, I may try another batch.

Pleasantries,

Tatiana

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So, I dont have a catchy title for today's blog....blame it on the chardonnay.

I'm not sure if I told you all, but I work from 99% of the time...One of the perks of being self-employed.  I was feeling "some kind of way" today, so I decided that I would only respond to phone calls and emails today and not do any "actual work"....Instead today was my get caught up on magazines day, lol.  I read 8 magazines in my pile of unread magazines...felt kinda good too...maybe I should make every Friday magazine day? lol  Dont hate on me.  I work other non-traditional hours too..I gets my work in!

So from the black enterprise magazines - i'm more inspired to work on the SEO aspect of my law firm...since I havent blogged in quite some time.  I'm also back inspired to looking at investing.  And i'm "semi-inspired" to pay off my debt that increased tremendously since taking the Financial Peace course and acquiring a house.  But seeming as i'm almost at my credit card limit....I may be a lil more inspired, than semi-inspired lol.  My paralegal called me and told me she made a depsoit in my account, so i placed it towaards paying off my lowest credit card bill....my husband's guitar center bill.  Hopefully that will inspire some more gazelle intensity to pay off my other debts.  Right now i'm extremely annoyed with my remaining $800 balance on one of my student loans, I think that may be my next debt payoff focus.  Its by no means my highest interest rate balance, but its so close to being paid off, I just want to pay it off.

From my HGTV and Better homes and garden magazines - i'm inspired to landscape my front yard and make my backyard an outdoor room (like Jamie Durie style)

Although I'm a bankruptcy attorney, everyone just assumes that attorneys make bookoo money. not true! I have bookoo student loan debt and I make "ok" money, which i hope to turn into bookoo money when i start focusing "bigger" rather than making my focus "small firm" ish....shut up...its the chardonnay.   Anyways, I said all of that to say, that although I "want" alot of things, I cant "afford" alot of things, although people assume that because i'm an attorney i can afford those things.  One day...thats on my list of Power of Attraction thoughts...thats a whole nother post though.

From my essence magazines - i'm more inspired to be a beautiful black queen.  Do something better with my hair and makeup then i've been doing. I'm sure that there was more that I probably "took" from reading my essence magazines....but again, i'm a blame it on the a.a.a.ahh alcohol. you know the song! dont act like you dont.

So maybe the catchy title of this post coulda been "my day reading magazines" but thats not catchy either.  oh well, I tried.

love,

Tatiana

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