Growing Sotol from Seed & Torturing Mosquitoes
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Sotol (aka Dasylirion) is harvested from the wild for the production of booze, which can be a very unsustainable process, as many animals depend on it for food (pollination and seed) and many other plants depend on it to hold the soil together and act as a nurse plant in the desert.
Because of how potentially unsustainable so tall production could be if while the plants are used, we here at crime pays are advocating and illustrating how to grow Sotol from seed. Growing Sotol from seed is easy as hell and simply requires harvesting the seed from Sotol stalks in fall and using the right soil mix. In this episode we use a mixture of ocean forest, perlite, and sand, however we compare two different types of sand using a cool microscope that the company beaverlab sent us.
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and use code crimepays10 for a discount. The model featured here is the M2.
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Thanks, GFY.
If you endorse it, I believe you. I will never accuse you of being a fuckin’ sellout, I give you my word. Your videos are a breath of fresh air in the claustrophibic atmosphere of our culture.
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Ditto 😊
@@pedro3000 🫰🫰🫰
First microscope I bought when my kid was little was close to $100, almost 35 years ago. Bought my grandson one for $35 about 14 years ago. It's one of the best investments for a kid. Now I'm old AF and damn near need a magnifying glass to see anything. Ah, the circle of life 😅
@@katiekane5247 I love that you kept it up for both circles of life, of yours. Child and grandchild. The learning stays strong in these households! 🩵✌️
Agreed on all accounts, except I hot no kids yet. But I'm getting blinder by the year and my first microscope offered me a view of some pretty cool stuff - and it validated a lot of science I could only hitherto read about.
@jaredknapp8886 that validation and verification is why I need to get one. I'm often interacting with soil or bodies of water, and it'd be helpful for me to see what's going on in there at the micro level!
Tony out here teaching people how easy it is to steal sand from golf courses 🤣
I never used to look at the huge pile of sand in the golf course carpark as an opportunity. Now I do.
@@itsrachelfish Tony out here showing us the sand he stole 😆✌️
@@tmmtmm that's where we need positive thinking to be!
smh the golfcourse nearest to me has all their sand piles located in the middle of the property so I gotta sneak on foot and risk a concussion
A very Joey Santore thing to do.
Thanks as a child I thought seeds were magic .you put in soil and it made our food!! Growing 65 yrs. Use to do wild flw.. toúrs
Love these cheap USB stereo microscopes. Really good for identifying spider mites on my orchids. I've also gotten some really cool images of various green hydra, tubifex worms and ostracods I have in my aquariums.
Thanks!
yeehaw
Honestly love this kind of content cause there just are not a lot of resources for growing native plants, particularly in West/Central Texas. I'll have to look into adding Sotol to my yard now.
I once asked a Bacanora drinker from Sonora what he thought about Sotol. "F'n rope water," he sneered.
I dig that Georgia O'Keeffeness art right there on the white board
I’m 73, and my microscope and chemistry set were, along with my fishing rod made my childhood tolerable. Though my parents started paying very close attention to the chemicals I bought with my allowance when I created a substance which blew up a test tube when heated, lol. That scope would have made my year! I’m getting that microscope for my grandson!
Get one for yourself, too!
Ooooh, that microscope is awesome. The price is really good, too. Thanks for the info about sotol. I hope propagating it will become popular. It would be a win-win, as they say.
That's what I was gonna say. I own a pest control company, and that microscope could come in handy.
"gofukyaselfbye" > "But wait there's more!"
That microscope looks cool as hell!
Came for the mosquito torture, stayed for the sand.
Oh man, when you're a kid, there's nothing better than having a microscope and looking at whatevertheshit. I looked at whatevertheshit all the time. Then I took my chemistry set and made solutions and watched crystals grow, and mixed solutions and got all kinds of whatevertheshit crystals. Man, now I want to get a microscope again and look at whatevertheshit.
Deep pots are a must for such species. They love to send their root deep, so if it's too shallow it will start to rot. I had a few different seedlings die, sadly.
Fantastic video! We're so proud to be partnering with you. Your creativity and quality impress us. Great job!😍
😅😭 ....I was listening while doing chores and I thought for a sec that he was talking about "growing so tall", and my brain was like, 'Word????? What is he now, 6'5"? 😱'
I love that scope, I would get one for my granddaughter. Very cool sand discovery👌🏼
I make a fine “end blown” flute with the seed stalk. Native style. Tuned 5 hole.
Without a reed?
@@Sixrabbbit … correct. It’s a fipple flute. An edge tone flute. Like a recorder. The “bird” defines the flue, a pathway for air, and the fixed edge controls the vortex frequencies. For example … The edge of a flagpole defines the oscillating waves of air. If the flag flaps 220x/sec. That base A. During hurricanes, the shrouds of sailboats will have an audible “howl”. Spooky!
My daughter got a little basic microscope when she was 8, but I have been considering getting her one that is less "toy" and more versatile. The price is not bad at all, and she's big enough to maybe not destroy it if left unsupervised. I love how detailed you were with what all the microscope has because I like to know exactly what I'm getting. She and I like to go out in the woods and just look at things, so the portability is excellent.
go for it joey you deserve good things
That 'scope looks amazing!
I tried sotol liquor once many years ago. I didn't know much about the plant. This has been quite educational
Love the beautiful sotol spikes in the Sonoran desert vista! JoeyTony, we always learn somtin' from you, even during a cajoled product placement. Never thought about the potential presence of calcareous dust making some sand a no-go for planting, but there ya go. Scope is pretty cool design and looks like a wonderful learning tool - and seems affordable - gahd help the teachers who have to buy pencils for their kids. Maybe my world would have been a whole lot different if I had access to one when I was a kid. Now I can donate the binocular optical scope I borrowed from a junked electron microscope and replace them with this neat thing.
That scope looks ideal for keying out sedges.
Thanks for the discount code! Saved me some bucks, looking forward to playing with the microscope.
I tried starting sotol from seed a couple of months ago and BRICKED it. Stoked to see this video in the feed, gonna try good sand and shade cloth next time!
We keep this channel on the PA system here at our Grow Shop. Had a cheer at the ocean forest. Happy Frog made by the same company isn't as fortified with minerals and extras, but it also doesn't any perlite in it, if that's someone's preference, or they're adding in heir own drainage.
I very much appreciate this fan service. 😅
Tony, half naked in the garage… can’t un imagine that 😂
Now I'm imagining it too 😳
🤷🏾♀️ Let's be honest. Would we really want to? 😏
That microscope is great for adults
Such a tease😊
When collecting Agave desertii seed I used my hat! I have so many seedlings now
I'm 80, bought a scope, always wanted one...
We have two in my front yard here in Austin. Bees and lizards love them. Extreme heat and cold tolerant. Am gonna try to grow seeds next time they bloom, which has been about every two to three years.
Cool vid. Will you show us the seedings once they sprout & beyond?
Yes, the photo in the corner of the thumbnail is one I currently have growing from this same seed batch.
Excellent!
Great work!
Dasylirion was my first desert plant collection. Still grow them along with Yucca/Nolina/Hesperaloe
I love your videos and your accent is amazing 😂
I fully endorse getting kids microscopes as toys. They are fun ways to encourage exploration of the world. Great for kids that already like science and those that are struggling to understand or find interest. If you have a little artist, the magnified world is a great art prompt. Use it when bored or to apply things learned in school to the world around them, check out before/after of objects, take it on walks, pack it for trips.
I would sneak my handheld microscope to elementary school and it was the great unifier of the classroom. Find a microscope in your price range and get it!
Thanks. I've tried to grow seeds from Sotol. I live on Sotol Street here in New Mexico and there are no Sotols on our street. Thank you for this video. P.S., also agree with there being alot of dummies, and I want to get a microscope.
I find it amusing you live in Texas but have a distinct accent from up north > My father grew up in NY but ended up Alaska but kept his accent. You are so smart about remembering the proper names of plants! I bet your daughter is gorgeous and oh so smart too!! Great video.
He’s from Chicago. When I started following some years ago he lived in California. He’s moved to Texas recently.
Curious to see how it goes! I started pots a couple of times with low germination, though it was Dasylirion wheeleri, not the same exact type. I have one strong seedling hahaha. But whatever if it makes it I'll plant the thing in my yard.
That microscope looks really cool, it’s a whole ‘nother awesome world when you look at stuff close up, especially insects 🪲🪰🐞
I would love to see your Pinguicula collection. I have P. lutea flowering at the moment.
I love hand feeding my carnivores too
Lol! One hundred percent went to look that sucker up. Totally wanna get it from my grandkids.That's a freaking awesome microscope! 🤣 I feel like i'm setting up a whole lot of bugs for slaughter
comment for the algo. Your channel is great, btw. Thanks for doin' the do.
Thank you for the video. I'm about to try and germinate these.
CORRECTION: Although there are certain production requirements to call a product "bourbon" in the USA, being produced in particular US states is not one of them. You can make bourbon in Maine. Your audience includes a lot of knowledgeable alcoholics.
You ever look at sand under your scope w/ UV light? Might see some microplastics. Precious plastic...
Speaking of Pinguicula, I would kill to see you to do an episode with a gypsum endemic Pinguicula. Species like P. gypsicola and P. immaculata are just incredible plants. Carnivores don't come to mind when you think gypsum cliffs, crazy that they evolved there. It's my dream to see them in situ one day.
Where would you go to see them? I love Pings, Drosera too. 🌱
My first thought with the microscope was we need to see some glandular trichomes.😅
that sand looks fine
Show yourself out…. 🤣
Thank You sir!
That’s all I got gfys good bye. Love it haha keep it up.
I might just get myself a microscope for my birthday 🙃
Damn Tony that was a good fuckin episode man I just learned a shitload of new tips on gardening
Sarahbdontgetmerked eye's are gonna pop out of her head on this video Tony. LOL I don't know why she hasn't found out
about Mike Zicopoulos on YT ? He's single. Great looking product endorsement and actually good lead in for the video.
thank you for your narrative observation
always quote mark twain:
On Palestine
" We never saw a human being on the whole route.... There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country. " 10:24
Oddly I'm also in my garage, almost in my birthday suit, and also tending to my arid climate seedlings.
I also know of a few golf courses within driving distance... 😏
Oof. Ok half a point…🤣
@@grannyplants1764 There's a test?! 😧
Guess what we are getting for Christmas! ❤
Anyone eating a skin Taco Needs a Beaverland Microscope 🤷♂ 🔬
Yo, so theres a channel called Journey to the Microcosmos (pbs type thing). Might get some good microscopy tips from that on specimen collection
I'd be okay with doing away with the superfamily Culicoidea (and order Araneae).
Edit: Howdy from south central Texas. Even tomatoes don't like the heat here. Peppers barely grow here.
hey tony, ya got a recommendation for a field camera i can use to get close up pics of bugs real nice? i’m a bit of a freak for all the little hairs and scales and mandibles and shit
You actually can make bourbon in Maine. The only geographic restriction on labeling as bourbon is that it has to be made in America. Even though most people associate it with Kentucky. Can't speak for Maine, but there are NY bourbons on the shelves.
Tennessee whiskey isn't called Tennessee whiskey because it can't be called bourbon, but because they want to be distinct from bourbon. A lot of Tenessee whiskey would meet the requirements to be labelled as bourbon if they wanted to do so.
Hey bro, you might want to try the frog farm for seedlings, the fox farm is a little too much, I find.
Would take-away-tek work for germinating these?
Hey your camera is badass. What type is it??
You's gotta scrub down with some pumice - some volcanic ash that's been metamorphosisktic nice.
Despite the common assumption, bourbon has no geographic/origin production requirement. It can be made anywhere.
Have you noticed insect Armageddon in USA, here in UK its the worst year ever , along with all wildlife , flora and fauna , there's a tree Armageddon here too . :(
i'm going to grow so tall
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desert sand is much finer than maritime sand thats why it's not being used in construction
So where do I find good sand? Learned the hard way that the box store sand is all wrong. Cement.
My Dasylirion mix keeps sprouting mushrooms here in Georgia; I’ve got to fix that before winter comes or it’s dead
Go to a specialty store. In California we have a few builders' supply places that sell graded sizes of silica sand in sacks and also decomposed granite, and sometimes various sizes of pumice.
Do you know any good venders that ship to Canada?
Is it related to the Australian Xanthorea spp ?
Did you ever find a plant ? Did it get named after you???
Anyone got a link for the microscope? I found the microscope just don’t see if the accessories come with it.
Oh its really for kids whoa
? Use scope for spores ?
mosquito extended cut when?
Eh, just set playback @ .25
Can support. I like free stuff and I am a wop
Never seen the guy behind the voice.
Taa-daaaa! It’s “the man behind the curtain” giving seed sewing tips nice!
Taa-daaaaa! It’s the “man behind the curtain” giving seed sewing tips nice!
@@The_Crucible714. He used the microscope to sew the seed edges nice and straight 🔬🪡
Hey...I saw a patch of skin without a tatt. You're slipping!
People being real dumb (and vain) is a trait that really lends itself to the endless consumption that fuels our economy. If they could select for those traits in us they would.
Look, I understand that clothing is oppression and all, yet I'm strangely entralled by the mircoscope advertisement.
*tardigrades!*
But you legally *can* make bourbon in any state In the union. Not outside of the USA though
Yep.
Nematodes man nematodes.
Those things are vital and tiny and there are bad ones
Looks like yer in a freaking bathroom. Lol
You can totally make bourbon in Maine or Texas or Florida or wherever the heck in the US. Shit, one of the biggest producers of the stuff is MGP in Indiana. All those "craft" whiskey distilleries popping up selling 10 year old whiskey on day one? Yeah that's not theirs it's from Midwest Grain Products in Lawrenceburg Indiana. Just another way the marketing people fuck with you.
20 years until harvest, 3x longer than ginseng, yikes.
Humans take 18 years (at least as a common consensus in America) but I would call it 25 at least.
Get a good mature adult human to harvest (not against their will)
DON"T STEAL "LIBERATE" Instead 😉
As if there's not enough booze available already. These people should make mead if they're so determined to have DIY alcohol.
True, mead is extremely easy to make.
Have you looked at a booger look at a booger
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