Hi. My name is Chuck Dorr, and I'm the owner of DIG, a garden shop in Brooklyn. Today, what we're going to do is an Agave and we're going to transplant, propagate so to speak little babies from one big Agave and we're going to put them in a smaller pot so that you have more Agave plants. And here is a prime example of an Agave, a beautiful plant, very shiny leafed and all. And what happens is during its growth period, not only grows through the center here which you know where the new growth will start and it'll eventually start growing from there. It also sends up these shoots, or these pups, I like to call them. And they're just little baby Agaves that can be transplanted easily in to another pot. And you can do these singly or in groups. We have four on this plant alone. And now this is easily separated because they really do want to grow on their own. Right now at this point, they're growing from the mother ship so to speak. And they really can grow and sustain quite a bit by themselves. So the first thing you do is firmly grip it and you're the boss as I always say, on these plants. So what you would do is just turn the plant over and sometimes it gets a little bit tight in here and everything depending on how long the Agave's been going and you squeeze a little bit. And that loosens up the soil. And then you slowly turning it upside down trying not to aggravate any of these roots at all. And then just placing is slowly back down on the table and you'll see that these babies or these pups will just want to pull themselves away. You can actually get them where they're actually part of the plant and by just gently but firmly prying them away from the soil. And then when they come out they're very much, they look broken but at the same time they are a plant among themselves. They've started their own root system. Once this is placed back into this pot it's good to water this. Because the thing that will be the most harmful to most plants is when the air hits the roots. So that's why you water on a transplant, be if outside plants or inside plants that you just need to water very thoroughly. So that glues the soil to avoid the air hitting the roots. All right. That said, what we're going to do is take these pups and we're just going to transplant to another pot. This basically terracotta pot, it can be anything you want at home. I'm going to make a spot for it, put that in just so slightly like that. Because eventually this plant will become this plant. So that said, I do just this making sure these roots are covered. Get these both straight up and then just add more soil. Again, it's important that once you transplant anything that's been on the indoors or outside, air is the killer of roots. So it's really important that once this goes into the ground, you water really well around the soil so what you're creating is a seal almost so that air isn't hitting the roots. So even though Agave can go without a lot of water for a very long, being a desert plant, it's good that once we've transplanted like this it's good that we give this a thorough watering so that it seals the dirt to the roots.
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