What You Need to Know About Agave Plants Agave plants live for a fairly long time. Many of them will live between 25 and 35 years, though some will live longer. One downside to these plants is the ...

Waikulu Distillery owner Paul Turner stands in a Makawao field of blue agave plants Wednesday morning while describing the process of farming and distilling his premium agave spirit on Maui.

The plant is more than 60 years old, since there are photos of it taken around 1960. Another agave americana, which was planted diagonally across from it, bloomed in July 2019. However ...