J-tree back to life.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:01 am

I hear ya about the $. I don't feel like dropping $289 for it to rot away here.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:40 am

I don't feel like dropping $289 for it to rot away here.

Yeah I know that feeling...

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:24 am

Recent j-tree pics!
http://unkowndestination.blogspot.com/2 ... ofile.html

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:33 am

Aaron, thanks for a such detailed presentation at your website! Beautiful plant!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:53 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Aaron, thanks for a such detailed presentation at your website! Beautiful plant!

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Thanks for looking.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 12:04 pm

My Pleasure...You know my weakness to Yucca plants...

marceli · Post by **marceli** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:29 pm

Wish I can grow them outdoor, but here's too damp & cold during winter, plus they grow incredibly slow and are very expensive

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:04 am

marceli wrote:Wish I can grow them outdoor, but here's too damp & cold during winter, plus they grow incredibly slow and are very expensive

I live in a zone 5b where we have winters with over 2 feet of snow in a storm. Lows are about -8f. to -15f. most winters.

Build a good well draining mound and protect from winter wet. Roots need to stay dry also (in winter). They start very easy from seed and grow faster then any yucca I have. You should try them from seed, if I get some seed next year I will send you some.

marceli · Post by **marceli** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:32 am

DesertZone wrote:I live in a zone 5b where we have winters with over 2 feet of snow in a storm. Lows are about -8f. to -15f. most winters.
Build a good well draining mound and protect from winter wet. Roots need to stay dry also (in winter). They start very easy from seed and grow faster then any yucca I have. You should try them from seed, if I get some seed next year I will send you some.

I see some hope on the horizon!

Great, thx - any yucca seed is appreciated! I'm kinda falling in love with these plants

andym · Post by **andym** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:55 pm

Thats a beautiful Yucca Aaron and not a plant you would want to lose.

Interestingly it is also a plant that you do not see a lot of this side of the Atlantic. Yes you can buy seedlings but rarely if ever trunked or mature plants. Apparently.. and correct me if i am wrong this species does not transplant easily and hence no mature specimens by specialist Yucca Nurseries in Europe. The plant is rumoured to have deep tap roots that prohibit the plant from being "excavated".

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:27 am

andym wrote:Thats a beautiful Yucca Aaron and not a plant you would want to lose.
Interestingly it is also a plant that you do not see a lot of this side of the Atlantic. Yes you can buy seedlings but rarely if ever trunked or mature plants. Apparently.. and correct me if i am wrong this species does not transplant easily and hence no mature specimens by specialist Yucca Nurseries in Europe. The plant is rumoured to have deep tap roots that prohibit the plant from being "excavated".

They are transplanted often in the southwest, and seem too do good. But they are a USA plant so mature plants are not found in Mexico for shipping over to Europe.

Some of the reason you dont see them in nurseries is they are not a popular garden plant. There are few places that grow them from seed, so small plants that are easy too manage are rarely seen. I hope they will become more popular in places like Texas, New Mexico and other Western and Eastern States? If they can live back east with the wet winters?

MCKATELYN · Post by **MCKATELYN** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:59 am

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 be even more cold hardy than the big leafed form you have? I think I remember reading that a population in Nevada or Utah is supposed to be supper cold hardy.
I think for us out east this would be a really tough one. Maybe if you built a mound with excellent drainage away from the trunk, then layed plastic on ground up to the trunk. Of course , that might be tricky as to find a way to not trap the moisture around the yucca. Anyway, that was just a thought as to how we might get one to survive.
Last year I went to Palm Springs and took a little road trip from there. Im kicking myself for not taking pictures of this. We drove through the city of Joshua Tree, CA. They are growing everywhere and they are huge! I saw a few that must have been 40 or 50 feet tall with trunks as thick as a mature oak tree. My boyfriend couldn't understand why I wanted to stop and get out to look at all those "ugly trees".lol They were truly amazing.
Anyway, that yucca looks like its recovering beautifully. It looks like your on your way to creating your own little Joshua tree forest in Idaho. Very cool. Thanks for showing those pics.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:16 am

DesertZone wrote:Recent j-tree pics!
http://unkowndestination.blogspot.com/2 ... ofile.html

Holy Monkey

That thing is huge!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:17 pm

MCKATELYN wrote:It's very nice. It looks like the specimen you have was from a warmer climate.

I think for us out east this would be a really tough one.

Last year I went to Palm Springs and took a little road trip from there. Im kicking myself for not taking pictures of this. We drove through the city of Joshua Tree, CA.

Thanks for all the nice words.

You are right, the seed from Southern Cal.

It would be hard becuase of the wet winters, but if you can start some from seed, than you could try out a few. Takes about 5 years from seed before they start growing small trunks. Than the will grow about 6in to a foot a year!

I would have loved to see those pics.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:19 pm

hardyjim wrote:
Holy Monkey

That thing is huge!

Thanks Jim

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:24 pm

I think your blog said it now has 11 heads which will be 11 lovely branches with heads.

What a spectacle that will be ... and soon.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:38 pm

lucky1 wrote:I think your blog said it now has 11 heads which will be 11 lovely branches with heads.

What a spectacle that will be ... and soon.

That would be cool, but I think the bigger heads will out grow little ones. So I think it will end up with 3-5 new branches.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:04 pm

Whatever it does, Aaron, please take photos regularly to have a slideshow of the process.

Barb

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:36 am

Hi Aaron,

that Y. brevifolia is DDG (drop dead gorgeous)! How much winter precipitation per month do you get?........please stop me from buying one since it will melt in our moisture! LOL

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