Which coincidentally is the other parent of the aforementioned "Hercules".
Here is a young "Hercules" (which was growing in a 6 inch pot 6 years ago, and has been receiving only our 10 inches of annual rainfall for most of that time) with something interesting going on. This is what happens when you decapitate one of these plants in the right place. The plant had one single head (atop a pretty fat trunk as you can see) when I did the surgery a couple of years ago. It spent about 6 months thinking about what to do, then buds started popping at the base of the leaves.
At some point I will probably harvest most of those 15-20 new branches and use them to start new trees. Thinking long term here of course.
