Thank you. Pretty much sounds like what I have been doing, I guess I will just stay the course.
or maybe I should put it in my rooting tray. It's where I root off-sets and other plants. It always stays fairly dry. Even if I water the tray, because it is so shallow and open, it dries out in a few hours. I have lots of luck rooting most plants in it. I will need to make some space. There are plenty of plants in it that are ready to go into pots. It sits above the grow light, like sitting above a dishwasher, it stays around 30°C during the daytime and drops down to just above 20° at night
What do you think of using the rooting tray?
Even though Agave applanata cv. Cream Spike is not technically cold hardy for my region, I would have left it outside all winter on our covered deck if it had roots, but I will be keeping it inside this year to work on roots.
Outside this time of year is 10-12° daytime highs and 7-4° at night. On average it will not get that much colder than this the rest of the winter. There will be some weeks of colder temps, normally a few day of below freezing, but otherwise as long as most of my agave are kept dry they stay outside. (just for comparison for weather - I do not think we even broke 25°C (77°F) the entire summer. Anytime we get a stretch of weather above that there are issued heat advisories)