Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Revisiting Century Plant Triplets, Weekly Shots Over 16 Weeks

In 2013, I'd taken pix near the time the stalks started their phenomenal growths. At the time, my camera was a Kodak that shot only stills. This time, I re-viewed my original shots, culling, editing, and organizing them to create a time-lapse slide show.

Section 1: 16-week view from a gas station diagonal from the plants
Section 2: Closer looks at each photo session

The 2013 individual articles contain my thoughts during that time period. Much of the content pertains to comparisons to previous plant looks. Compare the pix in this video from the pix in my 2013 articles.

Mysterious Peewee and "Righty" Removals

In looking over pix from Week 10 when the triplets was now a duo, different views showed positioning discrepancy. I can only infer my standing picture-taking positions affected the apparent plant positions. From the diagonal view, Peewee was in the middle. From the across-the-way and power-tower standing positions, the remaining two agaves are next to each other. (It would look like Peewee had been to the right.)

Unfortunately, pics from Week 11 and beyond show the only remaining century plant, which I nicknamed Lefty.

The 16-week Series on the Triplet Century Plants

Visit the blog articles and view the images, way different than the treatment I'm giving in the video.

Century Plant Triplets--Stalk Starts
Century Plant Triplets--2nd Week
Century Plant Triplets--3rd Week Higher Up
Century Plant Triplets--4rd Week Higher and Branching Out
Century Plant Triplets--5th Week Closer Looks at Stalks and Branches
Century Plant Triplets--6th Week Subtle Continued Growth, Gauging Heights
Century Plant Triplets--7th Week Lookit the Tops!
Century Plant Triplets--8th Week Lopsided Peewee
Century Plant Triplets--9th Week Peewee's 2x Leaning Angle
Century Plant Triplets--10th Week, Minus Peewee
Century Plant Triplets--11th Week, Oh, Solo Me, Oh
Century Plant Triplets--12th Week, Lefty's Bloom Clusters Declining
Century Plant Triplets--13th Week, 3 Successive Lefty
Century Plant Triplets--14th Week, Lefty and Another Week
Century Plant Triplets--15th Week, Lefty and Another Week Still
Century Plant Triplets--16th & Final Week, 3 2 1 0