The Strange and Wonderful Aztekium ritteri
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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Nuevo León, Mexico and the Sierra Madre Oriental in particular are known for many of their extremely cryptic and bizarre cacti, but Aztekium ritteri has to be one of the coolest, and certainly one of the weirdest.
This cactus grows incredibly slowly and only grows out of vertical rock walls composed of conglomerate and alluvial material weathered out of the 110 million year old carbonate rocks.
Like many of the incredible small cacti from this region, it is threatened with poaching.
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Thanks, GFY.
That ad was a literal work of art
If you’re looking for ad-free art in an opener… Orchid dungeon part 2
@@thequietpart_ I loved those vids! I'll have to remind myself how it starts 😂 but ads or not, these guys are characters and I dig it.
@@thequietpart_ 😂 Ahh yes, blinking out the window to the blockbuster rant... That was freaking gold
"Look at all deez goddamn rocks!" -me on every hike.
Lmao! Same
just got back from the river with a trunk full of rocks :D
Well put!! Isn't Joey great!!! 🥰👍🇨🇦
🤣😂🤣😂
Bro you can repeat yourself 855,000,000× a second if you wish. Your knowledge of plants and your fucking enthusiasm is absolutely king in my world!!! Your videos tap in to that pure enthusiasm for learning and I love that you share that in your videos. Thanks. PS please be careful and carry an emergency whistle with you. In 2017 I succumbed to the force of gravity super fast and then stopped super fast, destroying my leg in a six foot fall. I had friends with me but have they not been there I would’ve had enough in my little pack (Maxpedition Fat Boy) To use the whistle for help to keep myself warm and dry, to keep myself out of the sun, to have the ability to start a fire, Drink filtered water have a snack, I carry a small flashlight and a headlamp with some extra batteries, a knife etc. It’s amazing how much I have crammed into that small little pack and how much that pack can make a medical situation non-lethal
Thank you so much for showing us that extraordinary habitat. I can see why you feel the way you do about plants and rocks and things. Always a pleasure to come along on your adventures….gfy!
Thanks for the therapy. ✌💖🤘
Al Skorch's intro was clutch. Loved that monotone (educational voicing via projectors from back in the day) bit on the outro as well.
Your boy doing the ad reads is a fuckin treasure
Thanks, Tony..........only commenting to help with the algorithm.
👍
The more
The better!
I think this is the first time I've liked a video when I realized the part I was watching was an add
"look at dat, tiny little shits" if only David Attenborough gave such colorful narration....
I fckn love the ranty chum intros!! Most enjoyable way of introducing your sponsor and making sure I actually watch that part of the video.
$4 a sheet? I'll buy them all!
I got stuck on your videos after I got sober and found botany to occupy my newfound time. You're great. But now I keep coming back looking for Al Scorch lol. Thanks for the little things!
Notification gang! Botany is awesome but geology rocks 🪨
Botany will grow on you.
@@UberAlphaSirus good 1 👍
@No way 🤣🤣
I haven't got a notification in 3-4 weeks 🤔maybe I'm shadow banned.......
Good one!
Now I want a bumper sticker
Or ANY sticker that says:
Botany will grow on you
You can go on repeating yourself as long as you like Tony! Amazing plants are always such a huge pleasure to watch. Knowing that I'll never go to this place myself.
I briefly saw a cheilanthoid fern, myriopteris? My favourite pteridophytes along with lycophytes. This place is heaven!
thank you tony joe...gfy..even with all your anger you can still show people cool stuff...
Anger is a gift.
Hugs.
The vertical habit super fascinating. You see this a lot with the native Dudleya species where I live! Hopefully I get to see these in habitat one day. 🤘
I literally saw the small town i live in when you were on google earth.... take me with you to look for cacti please ahahaha
Great video like always!!
''Doesn't it put everything in context, huh? Vast amounts of time, think about all the dumb shit you worry about, you stress over... until you come out here and see Aztekium growing on a 500,000 year old alluvial deposit.''
makes me want to throw down a soda can to remind everyone that a modern human supporting the economy was there.
Just bought my first seed grown aztekium. Incredible to see these in habitat - thank you 👏
Only other person I know who can go to an area & remember where the plants were. I can't find my own stuff but remember exactly where something grew. Good shit as always!
Amazing! I’m glad that there are still healthy populations of this astonishingly beautiful plant. It has been pouched almost to extinction in nature.
Fun fact regarding it’s geometry: It is featured in the book “Plants of the Gods”. It has some potent alkaloids. Imagine the experience…. But please, don’t eat an endangered plant. Saludos from Mexico
Real nice of you to help out Al in his time of need but did you ever pay him back for those pizzas though?
No. And I still got his brad nailer. Tough shit, Al.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt thats cold blooded
Always good to see Alan out there as well
These fuckers are really neat. I've grown some from seed, they're slower than anything i've grown. Germination rates were terrible. They do well as grafts but they didn't root well for me after chopping.
Love this energy man! So Inspirational honestly having lovely appreciation for these organisms
That's some beautiful scenery!
Thanks for risking life and limb to share this with us. Take care.
Awesome video, what a crazy little species just hanging out in an absurd habitat. I wonder what pressured it off the horizontal ground all those millenia ago?
If you think about it that crazy little species creates that absurd habitat. The cactus roots run back between the rocks and prevent the soil from washing away in rainy weather and blowing away in drought. That creates a stable surface for the selaginella and lichens to attach themselves, then they create a shelter for the cactus seedlings.
the eternal sameness of the place is impressive. Fat Donald will grow senile, die, and rot in his grave and these plants will just sit there quietly and maybe grow a whole quarter inch.
(from Diana Shallard) thank you before i've even listened. I think i can breathe out. Thank you both. Dogs too.
“These nerdy cactus guys” idk if I feel called out or complimented 😂
Nice Episode tony
Good night
Beautiful double ending !!
Needed this positivity today....this week....this month? This year?
Thank you for this wonderful footage. This is my most beloved plant species. Sky daddy knows I love 'em all but the Aztekium species is just too wicked.
This is by far one of the most exciting video of seeing the same species of cacti throughout the video and few others and I watched it all without skipping it.
I was looking for more information on this particular species, as I was about to purchase.
Thanks for the video
lololol the commentary is gold.
Thank you for bringing us along pn this amazing outing.
Best ad yet
Tony! God bless you brother.....
Best adds on UA-cam
this is absolutelly beautiful and mind-altering to see all these a. ritteri in wild, thanks so much. highly underrated video this is insane, century old cacti in this video !
Always appreciated! 👍
I didn’t care to see it 100 times they’re so amazing looking!
I love the quiet long shots over the broader landscape.
GFY, bye.
A 20 year old seedling!
Ohhhhh, if only the plants could talk...
BEAUTIFUL Tony thank-you becarful up there so high!❤🌵❤ I sure hope nature survives.😎
Thank you for this amazing video!
I grow my single Aztekium ritteri outside in a terra cotta pot where it’s been for at least fifteen years. I don’t water it much! Especially I keep it dry in winter. I love seeing them in habitat so thanks for this. Also, i gotta say that while the flowers are on the smaller side (less than inch across) they are incredibly beautiful. Less “fabulous and showy” and more “sublime and perfect.”
What amazing video! I'm from Monterrey and one of my weekend's hobbies Is take my car and go for there, walk under the sun, take a lot of pictures of this plants and at the end of the day drink a cold beer. Nice to see a foreinger enjoy our ecological riches.
Note: in this same lands live another of my favs, ariocarpus scaphirostris.
Amazing add lol. I’ve never said that. Good job dude
I thought I clicked on the wrong video but wasn't a let down 😜 that ad read was one for the ages 👌
I just got some UV compression sleeves to deal with the sun, they're really useful
These sort of videos of you just in awe of plant life and geology are just beautiful
Like this is the sort of stuff that gets people into botany
I'd pay you and your buddy to make ads for TV. I just crack up through the whole duration every time.
Al is a treasure.
Tiny succulents. Nice.
Esplendor Geometrico!
I don't know if I'm delighted or saddened by the fact I know many fellas like the man with that soliloquy in the beginning.
That ad healed me.
Dude, you make botany fun. Thank you for doing what you do.
But wait, there’s more! Awesome. Hope no one poaches these beauties.
imagine if everything was hydrated
I wondered that myself, what a sight that would be eh?
Perfect time to catch poachers is after it rained. The rain will hydrate the cacti so it'll have it easier with the kidnapping and the ground isn't as rock hard as normal so digging up the plant is easier.
I wanna see Tony beat up some poachers
This is such an evolution
Very Chicago.
That was a brilliant sponsor spot lol
Aren't those rocks turquoise agate?
Lmao! Really an awesome video! I truly hope no one finds that area and those kids are able to flourish there for another 100 years!
i could look at a sheer cliff face full of aztekium for hours. 20 minutes is just an introduction.
Tony, Hello.
I also have a blue diamond on my left hand finger as you.
Mine is part of my lucky charms symbols.
What is your for if anything?
Thanks.
Fingering his girlfriend.
Please make a video on cycads ❤️❤️❤️
Amazing place😌🤲💖The Aztekium ritteri has a unique way it grows on those Limestone cliffs, and being nursed as seedlings amongst mosses and lichens👍That's interesting stuff. Hopefully the ritteri is widely cultivated and every collector has one or more and that amazing unique habitat will be left alone🙏
Holy fahck the Al Scorch stuff leaves me in stitches!!! Why would he have the camera set up??? Hahaha!
Another great video-I think you were thinking of larimar?
"The turquoise of the Caribbean" it's been called.
"Larimar is an exquisite turquoise to teal blue colored gemstone;
they are found deep within the jungle clad volcanic mountains of the Dominican Republic
And I'd have kept that rock (in your hand lower left at 2:44)
Even if it wasn't turquoise
(As a specimen and reminder of being on that trip/at that place)
So, was it turquoise or???
Anybody know?
Based on local and visual from video?
I was so confused why I couldn't click and pass on the commercial at the start. Lol
"Do ya eveer see that when you're on about 5 grams dried psilocybin?" Yes Tony, in fact I do lol.
This is S tier Crime Pays. ❤️
would like to see you go to the Witchita mountains in Oklahoma sometime
I wondered why that pile of rocks stood together for so long. It's because they took a "Lichen" to each other :P
I’d watch that sponsored bit on its own, great job.
This is absolutely amazing! Mountain full of next level gems💚💚💚
Great to see the habitat where these beauties live. And after the destruction of Ario site good to see so many plants and seedlings.
Love the double ending!
Al Scorch, funny as hell...also an amazing musician on the killer Bloodshot Records.
Music to my ears
Looks like you found some copper carbonate!
Keep keepin it real, or whatever.
Thanks the video was cool as ever gfyb.
TONY needs to do a t-shirt design with Home Despit
This video is good. To bad poachers in time will take all those plants to sell them to Europe, Asia, and the U.S.
Fuckin sweet.
thank you.
Thanks for sharing! Happy 4th!
That's a cool channel. I want to learn more about some fucking plants. Let's learn about some plants
Ha ha! Manheim road!
I didn't know a vulgar Chicago native was who I needed to really get into botany, but I'm pleasantly surprised.
Amazing!
Lichen Surprise!
Good company!!!!
Very entertaining...
The rocks did Dat because every 12,000 years the eath gets flipped the crust spins and gets smooshed along with 1000mph winds. GFY
Tony needs to collect rain water so he can water those stressed out plants. It might not be a good idea.
Aztekium ritteri has one of my favorite cactus flowers. Really beautiful! Not super showy, just … sublime. [hopefully this comment doesn’t trip the moderation filter]