Tim, I need good yucca info.
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Tim, I need good yucca info.
Tim,
How do you pollinate a yucca pod? I may need pics.
How do you pollinate a yucca pod? I may need pics.
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Is your Y. elata is bloom? Lets see some photos!!
Benny has a good page on his site:
http://www.bennyskaktus.dk/Y_hybrids.ht ... te_by_hand
Basically place pollen into the 'tube'. I use a tooth pick or cut the end off a Yucca leaf since the 'tube' opening is rather small. It appears you need to perform this task after sunset or just prior to sunrise for best results. I've noticed that not all Yuccas seem to produce good quantities of pollen. The Yucca gloriosas this year had little to no pollen........perhaps I need to wake up at midnight to get the pollen?? Also, I've noticed that the first flowers to open rarely form seed pods.........so if you don't have much pollen save it until the end of the bloom cycle (flowers on the ends of the branches form pods in better % than the first flowers to open on the branches).
Benny has a good page on his site:
http://www.bennyskaktus.dk/Y_hybrids.ht ... te_by_hand
Basically place pollen into the 'tube'. I use a tooth pick or cut the end off a Yucca leaf since the 'tube' opening is rather small. It appears you need to perform this task after sunset or just prior to sunrise for best results. I've noticed that not all Yuccas seem to produce good quantities of pollen. The Yucca gloriosas this year had little to no pollen........perhaps I need to wake up at midnight to get the pollen?? Also, I've noticed that the first flowers to open rarely form seed pods.........so if you don't have much pollen save it until the end of the bloom cycle (flowers on the ends of the branches form pods in better % than the first flowers to open on the branches).
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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 flowers to keep the moths from pollinating and beetles from laying eggs on flower? I just thought of that when I was reading this article. Since they don't have the yucca moth in Europe, they probably don't have the yucca beetles either.
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It is done blooming, but I do have a pic.TimMAz6 wrote:Is your Y. elata is bloom? Lets see some photos!!
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Magnificent in full bloom, Aaron,
I can't get over how sturdy and tall the trunk is.
Can you imagine those out your window as far as the eye can see...
Barb
I can't get over how sturdy and tall the trunk is.
Can you imagine those out your window as far as the eye can see...
Barb
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Yes...how nice that would be.lucky1 wrote:Magnificent in full bloom, Aaron,
I can't get over how sturdy and tall the trunk is.
Can you imagine those out your window as far as the eye can see...
Barb
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
I don't freeze pollen.........I just keep it in the fridge. I'm not sure how long it lasts........I've pollenated Yuccas with pollen from Benny but the success rate is very low. Mailing pollen to each other is somewhat new and it works but at low %. The beetles typically core a hole into the unopened flower to lay thier larvae. I inspect all flowers for 'holes' prior to hybridizing. These beetles are my biggest enemy when hybridizing.
Great looking Y. Elata bloom Aaron!
Great looking Y. Elata bloom Aaron!
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