Yucca trade forum

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:39 pm

Hello everyone. I have some Yuccas I can trade out... Yucca thompsoniana (3 yr old), yucca glauca (3yr old and a couple 3 yr rooted cuttings of trunking version), a couple yucca brevifolia (3 yr old), yucca elata (2 yr old), a few sabal louisiana and pindo palms (1.5 yr old).

What I am looking for: yucca mature from seed or cuttings:
yucca gloriosa green, yucca aloifolia green and purpurea, yucca recurvifolia, yucca trecueleana canaliculata.

I would love to trade with you if you have what Yuccas are on my here want list... Let me know if you want what I have and we can arrange it. I ship plants and receive.plants in international mail very often, just bare root.

Cheers, Adam

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:21 am

What's the best packing/labeling method to get through customs?

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:35 am

send no soil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkaWXH5Htwo

on larger plants, as in the video, but after wrapping in plastic, wrap again in newspaper. Label on the newspaper the species (in case it gets inspected)
In bubble wrap package or box (small as possible), mail out.
Call it worth = $5.00 no more, or duties and perhaps taxes are due.
Call it "gift" and/ or "gardening supplies" which as a trade is absolutely true!

Very successful.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:37 am

Call it "gift" or even better, "sample" if there is a box to check off.

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:52 am

Adam- I have some Yucca gloriosa (Tennessee seed) plants that I need to thin. You're welcome to one of them, if you like. I can't guarantee that they are true species gloriosa since they are seed grown AND have been hardy in zone 4b/5a.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:47 pm

Thank you Paul....
Anyone else dividing up their yuccas and can share?
or have extras already potted?
I have to get pics of my giveaway/ trades maybe tomorrow.
Adam

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:05 am

Adam, what types of Yuccas are you looking for?

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:19 am

Tim, I am looking for
Yucca Gloriosa green, yucca aloifolia green, and aloifolia purpurea (if it exists)
yucca recurvifolia and yucca trecueleana 'Canaliculata'

hoping for some cutting/offsets or seed grown a few years old

If you are cleaning up your beds, maybe you may have some from this list you wish to spare

I just hate to hear of yuccas going to the compost bin!

I have some others to trade out too for those interested

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:16 am

Some pics of what extras I have. Anyone who wants to trade, I can trade out to you some of these:

Yucca glauca 3yo from seed
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/7341830386/" title="Lincoln-20120605-00804 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7088/7341 ... 03f9_z.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="Lincoln-20120605-00804"></a>

Yucca glauca (trunking form) potted upright past 3 years
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/7156628261/" title="Lincoln-20120605-00805 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8016/7156 ... a5f2_z.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="Lincoln-20120605-00805"></a>

Yucca thompsoniana 3yo from seed oh and newer Washingtonia filifera seedlings, lots of them!
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/7341833420/" title="Lincoln-20120605-00806 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7073/7341 ... 3dcf_z.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="Lincoln-20120605-00806"></a>

Yucca brevifolia 3 yo from seed (I can't believe I am about to give some of these away!)
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/7341834326/" title="Lincoln-20120605-00808 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7240/7341 ... bf7d_z.jpg" width="478" height="640" alt="Lincoln-20120605-00808"></a>

Sabal louisiana and Eriobotrya japonica (loquat) So many loquat!
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/7341827140/" title="Lincoln-20120605-00809 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8003/7341 ... be6e_z.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="Lincoln-20120605-00809"></a>

So please have a look at what i have to offer, and what you have to offer. I doubt anyone has an extra Sabal 'Birmingham' but that has been also on my wanted list for some time now

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:31 am

I had one miserable little Birmingham in my seedling collection. I think the thing had 2 leaves after 3 years (strap leaves). If it's still there you can have it.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:25 pm

Hi Adam

that trunk form of glauca looks really odd. Can you take a few other photos of it? It's cool looking. It's much different than my Y. glauca v stricta wihch is the Yucca on the left. It's a massive Yucca....that fence behind it is 6ft tall.

<img src=http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/ ... M01572.jpg>

PS:
There are loads of gloriosa/recurvifolia forms.....I must have 10 or so different types. Some aren't as hardy as others. Don't give up on them if the 'first' type dies on you.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:02 pm

Here is the Yucca glauca trunking I am keeping. I also have another with similar sized trunk and at least two others from the same parent plant available not yet trunking though.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/7161355741/" title="IMG-20120404-00597 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7076/7161 ... 4553_z.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="IMG-20120404-00597"></a>

Yucca glauca, trunking view from top, April after removal of flower stalk showing new top growth
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/7346562472/" title="IMG-20120404-00598 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7243/7346 ... f828_z.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="IMG-20120404-00598"></a>

who wants to trade?

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:44 pm

Nice glauca form.....do you know what state it's native to?

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:28 am

This Yucca glauca trunking... not sure if it has a native range. Perhaps it is trunking only in cultivation as a result of hybridizing or natural selection.
I saved this bunch of glaucas from an out of control garden in front of a hi-rise apartment building. The other half of the grouping I left... got bulldozed the following spring.
I know of one other of this plant in the same neighbourhood. I am trying to work something out with the property owners to reduce its size and save it from the compost bin. Picture when I get out there.

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:46 am

There was the nicest clump of Yucca glauca with small trunks at a restaurant here in Toronto. The restaurant has closed and the Yucca has disappeared! It's not fair, I wanted to make it disappear!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:17 am

Paul,

I used to carry a shovel in the trunk...just for those "opportunities".

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:06 pm

There's one here on campus by a neglected building that I might help to 'disappear'... I think the building is slated for demolition, so really I'll be doing them a favour... Right?

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:26 pm

Barb, shovel in my trunk too.
Paul, that's right!

tropical_niagara · Post by **tropical_niagara** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:32 pm

Adam "Seeds" - we need to connect as I live in Beamsville as well.

You have some awesome plants and I would like to chat with you about winter protection ideas...

I have 2 Trachy's that have overwintered the past 2 years and a Glauca that has overwintered the past 4 years.
All are doing great, and growing quickly.

I will be digging up a HUGE clump of my Yuccas - let me know if you want to save these from a non-existent future.

I will take some photos this weekend to share...

Henoh_Croatia · Post by **Henoh_Croatia** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:52 am

Paul Ont wrote:There was the nicest clump of Yucca glauca with small trunks at a restaurant here in Toronto. The restaurant has closed and the Yucca has disappeared! It's not fair, I wanted to make it disappear!

lucky1 wrote:Paul,
I used to carry a shovel in the trunk...just for those "opportunities".

Paul Ont wrote:There's one here on campus by a neglected building that I might help to 'disappear'... I think the building is slated for demolition, so really I'll be doing them a favour... Right?

I was thinking that's disappearing technics is our south european invention, but I'm wrong...ha ha

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 7:47 pm

Pic today of many of my "spare" Yuccas. Nearly a dozen species there.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/7483835694/" title="Lincoln-20120701-00875 by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8165/7483 ... 0e27_z.jpg" width="478" height="640" alt="Lincoln-20120701-00875"></a>

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:42 am

They all look very well grown Adam.

Which ones are in the PVC?
Obviously a deep rooting variety early on.

Barb

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:21 pm

In the PVC "deep pots" i plant new Y. brevifolias to establish a good taproot... but these I tried were some Yucca glaucas. Glaucas do better in just a 6" pot.
A Y. brevifolia does well in the pvc tall pots, but BEST in a 10" pot, right from seed.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:52 pm

nice crop of Yuccas Adam!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:28 am

Y. brevifolia does well in the pvc tall pots, but BEST in a 10" pot, right from seed.

Good to know, Adam.

Barb