Cant a century plant (agave) be grown as an air plant, or have i totally lost my mind?????

It can't hurt to try. Are you talking about mounting it on driftwood like bromiliads? If you have a large plant, I'm sure it is making many babies. Try it. It is very hardy.

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Originally posted by bjanddee:
Cant a century plant (agave) be grown as an air plant, or have i totally lost my mind?????

Century plants are definately not air plants. If you attach it to a board as an air plant, it will look normal for a while (until it's stored water supply in all of its spikes is exhausted) and then it will look pretty dead. How dead it really is depends on how long you let it wither. If you want it to remain a "small" plant, take the entire plant (I'm assuming its no larger that 10" big give or take) and stick it in a jar of water. The spike base will send out roots, but the plant will remain its small size. I "rescued" a small "runner" off of one giant that a neighbor had let bloom, die back, (it was almost 12 feet accross) and then he cut it all out of the soil and removed it! He'd had his fill of the giant for yhe last ten years or so. Anyway he removed it all (NO small job--it was a tree for all practicle removal purposes). My cutting stayed on my window sill in its jar of water for two years while I tried to figure out where I wanted a giant to grow for the next 10+ years... Eight months ago, I actually repoted it in an eight inch pot, its still in a pot and not getting larger and I'm still trying to decide if I want to REALLY grow it to its full potential... Anyway, they seem to be like fish; "container size" their roots determine their growth--small container=small plant.

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