A Few yucca 2 year seedlings

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:37 am

I know I'm a bad man but from a numerous seedlings of yucca plant I have only three planted in a ground. The rest are still sitting in the pots.

Tim's seeds growing Yucca filamentosa "Tennessee" x reverchonii-thompsoniana:

Yucca pallida:

Yucca which is supposed to be Yucca nana according to http://www.koehres-kaktus.de:

Numerous potted yucca plants:

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:18 pm

Igor, I love that 'nana'. Looks to me more like a baccata (banana yucca). Or even better a cross, Yucca baccata x nana, which I would call Yucca 'Ba-nana'!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:33 pm

Thanks, Adam! This particular yucca seedling is from koehres-kaktus.de "Yucca nana complex" seeds. Did you find your Joshua tree plant in the 4th pic? It's dying. Sorry for that... But the rest of your yucca plants are fine!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:38 pm

By the way, the various Y.baccata seedlings look different from this "nana" one.. I know I should take pics of all my seedlings....

Henoh_Croatia · Post by **Henoh_Croatia** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:38 pm

Nice Yucca's. Your Y.nana have some Baccata blod for shure.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:51 pm

Thanks Mario! I have another excuse for labeling this yucca as the nana. Since I was sawing many seeds of the various yucca species and forms in one pot so it would be possible if some seeds have been mixed up easily. I should check some other "nana complex" seedlings.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:56 pm

Hi Igor,

you have a great collection of Yuccas. I can sure see the reverchonii-thompsoniana genes in the hybrid......it looks real happy in your climate.

The wide leaf nana is really nice too. Someday you'll have to create a hybrid with that one.

Benny, Northern Denmark · Post by **Benny, Northern Denmark** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 3:31 am

Hi Igor,

it's very nice to see, that I am not the only one with many Yuccas in pots. Here are a few "shots" of seedling in our greenhouses:

Here is some 1 and 2 year old seedlings:

More seedlings also 1 and 2 years old:

1 year old seedlings:

2-4 year old seedlings:

To the right it's Yucca glauca x linearifolia and to the left it's Yucca glauca seedlings.

More photos next time.

Have a nice weekend

Benny

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:44 am

great photos Benny.........I like seeing all those seedlings!

Most of the hybrids with linearifolia genes in them seem to perform very poorly in my climate.....they are not very aggressive at all.

Henoh_Croatia · Post by **Henoh_Croatia** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:56 am

Wow Benny, you need more space

Did you try out Yucca glauca x linearifolia in your climate?

Best regards,

Mario

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:58 am

Oh, my Gosh! I knew you have some but so many!!! And they look much better than mines.... I should improve

Benny, Northern Denmark · Post by **Benny, Northern Denmark** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:52 am

Mario,

No, the plants of Yucca glauca x linearifolia were sown in June 2012, and they have been store almost frost-free during their first winter, they might have been frozen for a few weeks and I don't think below -5C during that time. The next winter they will stay in their pots on the floor in the unheated greenhouse, and probably get down to at least -15 C and long periods in which the temperature is not above freezing.

Last year I started to "shade" the potted seedlings, while they can easy freeze-dry during the winter, when the soil is frozen solid for several months. And if we get a short period of temperatures above freezing, we give the young plants a little water or just put snow on the top of the soil in the pots to keep them slightly moist.. It's not a problem for big plants with big rhizomes, they can "live of" the moisture in their rhizomes.

Tim,

I have a few of H. Faber's linearifolia crosses, most are in small pots, but also two which is planted in the greenhouse. I will take some photos of them soon - and some shots of the the hybrids with "Behan's yucca genes"

Have a nice weekend

Benny

andym · Post by **andym** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:04 pm

Anything with Linearifolia genes is worth a shot here in the UK. This Yucca survived our six week Narnia Winter 2010/11 completely unaffected by that freeze. Its quite at home with wet cold also.
Igor .... a great collection of yuccas especially that "Nana" Is that a dasylirion you have also? Looks like Miquihuanensis?
Benny....when will your seedlings be available for sale?

Benny, Northern Denmark · Post by **Benny, Northern Denmark** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:24 am

Hello Andy,

I do not expect that hybrid Yucca glauca x linearifolia will be hardy outside in our garden, but I hope, that they will be OK in the unheated greenhouse, or if planted close to the house-wall. It is not the minimum temperatures that worries me, it is the length of our winters. Every 5-10 years we get horror winters with temperatures below freezing for 2½ to 4 months, sometimes with snow and sometimes without.

The seedlings of this cross has very long and thin leaves for their age (they were sown in late June 2012). I will have to take some photos of some of them, so I can show you how they look.

You can send me an email, then I can let you know, what we have "extra" plants of.

Have a nice weekend

Benny

Benny, Northern Denmark · Post by **Benny, Northern Denmark** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 1:29 am

Igor,

Your Yucca filamentosa "Tennessee" x reverchonii-thompsoniana looks great. I can't remember if I have any of this cross.

I know that I have a "big" one of Tim's Yucca flaccida [distributed as recurvifolia] "Tennessee Mountains" x (reverschonii x thompsoniana) . Here is a photo of this one planted inside the greenhouse. It was sown in March 2010.

And to the left of it, you can see one of my small Yucca nana's. This one is still "blue" as yours, when it's older it will grow "normal" green leaves. Your plant looks great has it been outside for a winter ?

Best wishes

Benny

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:31 am

Oh, yes, I tried the Tim's recurvifolia 'tennessee' x reverchonii-tompsoniana, filamentosa 'tennessee' x reverchonii-tompsoniana and flaccida 'tennessee' x reverchonii-tompsoniana... seeds to germinate. Perhaps I have a few of these two last hybrids.
The "nana complex" seedlings look different.... I have some which started off-springing in one month age. Unfortunately the most of my seedlings sit in the pots and grow very slow. Still have no enough spare land for making the succulent bed.
All the seedlings overwintered last winter indoor (a lot of sun and 10-15 C). This winter most of them goes to unheated GH (from minus 10C to plus 5 C for period of 3 month).
No one of my yucca seedlings has been overwintered outside yet. The coming one will show a result.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:39 am

andym wrote: Igor .... a great collection of yuccas especially that "Nana" Is that a dasylirion you have also? Looks like Miquihuanensis?

Thanks Andy! I should take picture of all my yucca, agave, dasylirion and hesperaloe seedlings. The Dasylirion you asked about is supposed to be wheeleri . At least it was the Dutch labeled "Wheeleri". But last year I saw the wheeleri in Texas and those were looking different (more grayish I would say). Aaron knows exactly what is a true wheeleri...

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 10:41 am

seedscanada wrote:Igor, I love that 'nana'. Looks to me more like a baccata (banana yucca). Or even better a cross, Yucca baccata x nana, which I would call Yucca 'Ba-nana'!

What I have found at one european forum (Yucca nana "San Juan Co Utah 2012m", da bin ich mal gespannt.):

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:43 pm

there are a few different hybrids with the 'rever-thomp' pollen. There is a 'flaccida Tenn.' and a 'filamentosa Tenn.'. They are different plants. The 'flaccida Tenn.' has MASSIVE blooms in my garden.....the largest in my garden. Benny is correct.....this 'flaccida Tenn.' was sent to me as a recurvifolia back in 2003 but it appears to be a form of flaccida in my opinion (no trunks).

Here's a photo showing the blooms of flaccida 'tenn' (on right).....the blooms on the left are constricta x filamentosa
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Benny, Northern Denmark · Post by **Benny, Northern Denmark** » Sun Sep 01, 2013 4:47 am

Tim, it's an outstanding inflorescence this Yucca have. It must be the only Yucca bloom which can make you Yucca constricta x filamentosa flowers look smaller in size.

Here is a photo of one of my "Behan hybrid" Yucca flaccida "Tennessee Mountains" x (reverschonii x thompsoniana)

It were sown in 2010, and is planted inside the unheated greenhouse, probably in 2011. There will certainly some difficulties, when this plant in time decide to bloom, if any genes from the huge size of the inflorescence is inherited in the hybrid. The leaves has a very beautiful dark green color with tint of a blue "glow". I would not be surprised, if this hybrid will become one of my favorites, as it grows larger.

Benny

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:23 am

Hi Benny,

I crossed Y. 'constricta x filamentosa' x filata and the bloom height was not as tall as 'constricta x filamentosa'. Perhaps when the 'constricta x filamentosa' is the pollen donor the bloom heights will be taller??

Your Y. flaccida x 'reverchonii-thompsoniana' looks very similar to the ones I have. I have three different seed grown plants and all have slight differences in their growth habits. It's nice to see variations between seedlings. All have a strong influence to rigid type leaves from the reverchonii-thompsoniana but less rigid than the pollen donor plant.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:21 am

andym wrote: Igor .... a great collection of yuccas especially that "Nana" Is that a dasylirion you have also? Looks like Miquihuanensis?

Andy, so sorry for "ignoring" your question. This dasylirion is supposed to be whelleri. At least it was labeled as the such. In fact it has green foliage. So I don't really know... I'm confused a little bit.

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