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Thank you for sending us your gardening question. It sounds like the problem with your agave is either a problem of insufficient water or the presence of an agave snout weevil. Try flooding the entire root zone of that agave with a slow running hose set at the base of the plant. Once the root ball is saturated along with soil immediately adjacent to it, the agave will take in enough water to plump itself up again within just a few days. Those wrinkles at the leaf bases will vanish. But if those furrows remain despite the flooding, you know the plant can't take it up. The reason is likely weevil larvae have severed root from shoot.

Here are a couple of articles you might find helpful:

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/cacti-succulents/agave/agave-snout-weevil-control.htm

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/cacti-succulents/agave/growing-agave.htm

Please let us know if you have any other gardening questions and happy gardening!

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You can transplant Agave pups any time of year, though spring and summer they will have faster growing results.
Make sure you remove them when they are small for best results.

This appears to be a spot from iron deficiency. This can be caused by, either, an actual lack of iron or too high of a pH.

You can add iron sulfate to bring the pH down, and use dolomitic lime to keep the pH more stable over a long period of time.

Here is an article that will give you more information on the plant: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/cacti-succulents/agave/growing-agave-plants-in-pots.htm

Yes, you could do that, but, in order to propagate them like that successfully, it would take a lot more effort than what most people are willing to do. It would be far easier for you to collect bulbils (little rounded things on its main flowering stem), or its 'pups' (little smaller offsets or plants) growing out of the side of the plant at the soil level.

If they are completely dead, then it will be safe to remove them. This will ensure that it takes enough nutrients back into the plant before they are cut. This article will give you more information on the care of these: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/cacti-succulents/agave/growing-agave.htm

Your Agave is genetically programmed to put out a flower stem near the end of is life, normally after about 30 years in its native habitat. After it flowers, it gradually dies as it puts out the adventitious roots and new plants to carry on. Bromeliads also react similarly, gradually dying after flowering, but putting out baby plants before dying.

Nature has many unusual ways to propagate and carry on the species. The way that it does that is usually adapted to its native environment.