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I live a bit north of you by Chicago in zone 5b. I don't think you will need to add any addition heat. I just put up a pop up min greenhouse over it, add some mulch (on the inside and around outside rim), then put in a few milk gallons filled with water. If it is planted in an area that gets some ...

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Mike,
Mine is only a few feet tall but and still green as ever but the frost is coming very soon. I think my next week its leaves should brown out. How do you protect yours in the winter? Do you cut trunk to only a foot or so tall before covering? How deep do you lay the much, leaves , or hey on it?

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That picture just made me a little sad too. We have 70s and 80s and my basjoo is still green as summer but the cold is going to come tomorrow. I hope there won't be a frost yet in Chicago

I got to start thinking about winter protection soon now.

MCKATELYN

It's very nice. It looks like the specimen you have was from a warmer climate. I ready that the ones that come from a climate that gets a lot of frost or cold tend to have many heads. It said those tall single headed ones are from warmer areas. Isn't the other form (shorter leaved form) supposed to ...

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Those are simply gorgeous! Love that narrow leaves on the hybrid w elata. Sort of an east meets west hybrid. The Tennessee gloriosa looks truly tropical. Those blue leaves are beautiful. It's so cool to have yuccas blooming so late in the year!

Great work!!!

MCKATELYN

I haven't used them for yuccas but have used them for my needle palm. They work great. It takes about 10 or 15 minutes to set up. Just pop them open and through some woodchips mulch on inside and outside greenhouse and your set for winter

MCKATELYN

Yes, that does make a big difference if it gets above freezing for the yuccas(and many other plants). I'm in the same situation where we could go through the whole month of January and hardy even see 32degrees F the whole month. That's why those little pop up or umbrella greenhouses are perfect ...

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I have to agree with that last post and I do have some experience with that. I live in a very solid zone 5. I planted a small rostrata from plant delight. It was planted in a very good microclimate up against south side of my house protected by an overhang. What happened was it stayed a permanent ...

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Haha

maybe he had a nice sized palm by now

MCKATELYN

First off, welcome to the board. I'm sorta new here too. I'm a short 4 hour drive from you in Chicago. I have a needle palm that has overwintered outside the past two winters in my climate. I just have one of those popup greenhouses and gave it about 3 inches of woodchip mulch. The whole thing takes ...

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The pods are still fully green. Should I still open one and see if it's black?

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This is a picture of my new Yucca elata that is ging to be dug and shipped to me. It's in Idaho. The nursery assured me they will get all the taproot so it can survive. I'm so excited

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Ok that's really good information, thanks. I think I'm going to try to get some packs of seeds and graft seedling onto the pads. I will play around with it and see how it all works out

MCKATELYN

That would be really cool to start with a whole field of western yuccas and see if maybe a few could live, then use those for propagation. Or maybe hybridize a filamentosa with the j tree (or a few western species) and grow a field of those hybrids. Then , you could back cross the western species ...

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Great picture, looks sorta like a Key West house + a few more cactus.lol very nice

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Yes, there is a filamentosa being sold as glauca. Who knows if what you really get is species pictured or species advertised. I just received the "blue yucca" from that eBay add. It's a little root cutting with growth on it. It looks to be recurvaflori/gloriosa. It doesnt have as stiff (sharp ...

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I emailed him and he said he doesn't know what species it is. I think he just guess on the zone. No way it's really hardy to 3. Lol

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Thanks Tim,
I emailed seller and he didn't know what Species it is but the are about 5' and extremely pointy.lol he said they are very hardy (in NC). I figured that's what species they are but thanks for confirmation.

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I second that! That is truly beautiful!

MCKATELYN

I just order this on eBay. It's listed as a blue yucca. I was thinking it is really a gloriosa. The person selling it lives in NC and it looks to have a small trunk. Obviously the hardiness rating would be off (listed as zones 3-8). What do you think? http://www.ebay.com/itm/170886543907?ssPageName ...

MCKATELYN

That is so strange that the gloriosa would actually be less tolerant of moisture than your elata. Is it the wet cold that damages it?

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This was a great question. I was curios about this too. He said he saves the pollen in an airtight container in his freezer. Tim, how long have you kept pollen and used it later before it went bad? Do you freeze it too? Would if be helpful to put a small piece of nylon tied off around pollinated ...

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I'm not sure if it has been 4 weeks (I think just about that long). My boyfriend was waiting in the car because there wasnt really any good places to park so I don't have a good size comparison pic but here is the mother plant toppled over. In the bottom right corner you can see how small the purple ...

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I just got back from Michigan today. There is a huge Yucca filamentosa that I always look forward to seeing. It's growing in a public area and really stands out just because it's shear size. It looks about the size of Tim's filamentosa x elata hybrid but without the little trunk. This time when I ...

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Thanks for posting those winter pics Tim. That was very helpful. I have both the solid green weeping recurvafloria and variegated gloriosa. Every single winter the weeping recurvafloria come through looking horrible with tattered leaves like that in my climate and yet normally the variegated ...

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Tim, Your yard is amazing. I knew you had a huge collection but didn't realize just how big it is. You have so many gloriosa. You mentioned they have all different degrees of hardiness. How would you rate the variegated (the one form I have lol) compared to most other (green) forms in hardiness? Is ...

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I thought those two are very sensitive to moisture in the winter. Wouldn't rot be at the roots? That's why I was thinking if I could have a thin layer of gravel before the grafted part starts, the cactus would be much more moisture tolerant. If I use a pad species of Opuntia and lay pad flat on soil ...

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But with the fragilis as rootstock and not growing anywhere near as large, wouldnt that hinder the growth potential of the the graft? I was thinking it might not be able to either grow enough roots to support the larger cactus or it might even tip over after a few years. Will the Opuntia leaf live ...

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I will take some pics when I get some time. This is such an awesome forum

MCKATELYN

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome :D When I planted my elata between 8 and 10 years ago, it was a 5 gal size. It has survived just fine (although it's not to vigorous probably due to much shade). That one was from a Arizona nursery that I don't think is in business anymore. Last year I planted a ...

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Hi, Has anyone had experience with grafting Sclerocactus or Pediocactus onto O fragilis 'potato'? I'm interested in being able to have Sclero and Pedi that don't need rain/snow protection in winter. Since the fragilis is so much smaller, is it able to grow a large enough root system to support the ...

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Thank you Barb, I still need to figure this whole posting pics thing out.lol I'm going to take a 2 day trip to Saugatuck MI next week. It's a mini trip because it's only a couple hrs away. It's a very warm zone 6b (I suspect really a 7a). Anyway, there is a unusually huge filamentosa thats foliage ...

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Wow, those are beauties. Since elata have the deep taproot, they don't transplant well. Has anyone had any success with moving a mature specimen like one of those elatas?

MCKATELYN

Im new to this forum but have always loved the desert and have quite a large cactus/yucca collection. I live in a very solid zone 5 ( right on rim of 5a and 5b). I'm just outside of Chicago but sufficiently inland to not get much lake effect microclimate. My desert garden is along the south side of ...

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Would you be willing to sell or trade for one of those pups. I got a variegated yucca gloriosa that is almost fully hardy in my zone 5 Illinois ( lived for 9 years and grew a 1 foot trunk then a few years ago top got winter kill). I got about 5 small ones from that. Or, if you name a price, I might ...

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