Greetings:

I'm new to this website and new to Agave growing. I recently purchased seeds of the Victoria Regina agave plant. I had 20 seeds and got 10 to sprout, Which I think is good. It took several weeks for them to sprout. I have some which have three leaves including the original. My question is: I live in southern Indiana, they are indoors under light. Approximately how long should it take to reach 1 inch in diameter?

Thanks.

to ATP notrub.

Here is some information on this beautiful plant which is said to be winter dormant and slow growing. It sounds like you may need to exercise some patience....
http://www.cactus-art.biz/sche...

Thanks, That's more info than what I had. I'm 68 so may not get to see them bloom, in no hurry.
Thanks again.

HI notrub, to All Things Plants!

I found three listings for this Agave in our ATP database:

Queen Victoria Agave (Agave victoriae-reginae)

King Ferdinand Agave (Agave nickelsiae)

Variegated Queen Victoria (Agave victoriae-reginae 'Variegata')

There's some information regarding propagating from seed but nothing that gives a length of time for seedlings to reach a certain size. I remember back in the early 1970's I grew some cactus from seeds and it seemed to take forever for those little stems with two leaves to take on the actual shape of a cacti. I don't remember how long it was and I ended up losing the little things to an unexpected freeze when we were out of town. If you have any photos of your seedlings to share, they'd make nice additions to our database! Again, and I hope you have fun browsing some of the forums that you find of interest!

~ Lin

Agave Victoriae reginae White queen does it come true from seed?

Good question. I would think it's usually propagated from offsets or tissue culture, but that's just a guess. If you were to grow one from seed, it would be unusually slow (even for an agave) so many years to specimen size, but you would have a clue about whether the experiment worked within a year or two.