Tim,

The plants of the hybrid Yucca filamentosa x rostrata are just fantastic and they are all quite big for their age. I made the hybrid in the summer of 2008, you did get the seeds in 2009.

I always enjoy to see photos of your the Yucca constricta x filamentosa plants and the Yucca flaccida 'Tennessee' with their tall and massive blooms, but the rostrata hybrid beats them all.

I have a few plants in bloom this summer:

My own hybrid Yucca angustissima ssp. kanabensis x (filamentosa x arkansana) has been blooming for a while now, if you need pollen from it just let me know.

I have also another of my hybrids in bloom:
BMJ #2007A Yucca filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca (pollen from a plant in Gurli & Christian Lorentsen's garden), it opened it's first flowers a few days ago, and the flowers has lots of pollen. It has bloomed once before in 2011, so I know it's a good parent plant both as seed and pollen parent.

In the unheated greenhouse one of my Hungarian hybrids are in bud, and hopefully will it bloom before the angustissima hybrid finish blooming. The hungarian is the Yucca Janakidisz hybrid baileyi x gloriosa, which I received as a small seedling in 2009 (sown by Demeter Janakidisz same year).

Here is a photo of the Hungarian hybrid:



And a photo of the Yucca angustissima ssp. kanabensis x (filamentosa x arkansana):



And here is a photo of the BMJ #2007A Yucca filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca when it was in bloom in 2011:



Besides the above is there bloom in various forms of the filamentosa-flaccida complex, + Yucca 'Elegantissima', and the small Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2" has finished blooming, instead it has 3 seed pods growing :-)

Have a nice day

Benny

danke Mark,

wie ich finde hat sich die Deutsch-Holländische-Fußballrivalität sehr entspannt und das ist auch gut so. Danke für deine Glückwünsche.
Ihr seid ungeschlagen aus dem Turnier rausgeflogen.

@Benny,

my Y. baileyi x gloriosa has finished blooming now. The Photo is from last week.


Glückauf
Horst

Hi Horst,

zum Pömpeln wie zum Pollen sammeln schaut's eher zu feucht aus, oder?

Glück auf,

Jürgen

Hi Benny,

good luck with the growing pods!

Mange hilsener,

Jürgen

Hier mal ein Update der Früchte. Die sind in den letzten Tage noch mal ganz schön gewachsen.

Hi Mirko,

Klasse Ergebnis für den ersten Versuch! Ist doch an Deiner Palli?

LG Jürgen

Hello Mirko,

Congratulation with your very fine looking seed pods. I'm sure, that the seeds are growing well inside those.

Keep us informed as the seed pods get ripe late in the summer.

Have a nice day

Benny

Hello all readers,

Up here in Northern Denmark the flowering season for Yucca has topped a few days ago. There are still quite a lot of flowers, but with the next days, for us, very high temperatures (The thermometer might hit the very rare 30C today!) they will wither fast.

I do of course use the excellent summer weather to pollinate and since I started pollinating the first flower at June 30th., I have pollinated 95 flowers where of 11 has fallen of, and there 45 pods are visible at the time of writing today.

Besides pollen from my own plants, I have been receiving pollen by post from:

Pollen from Tim Behan:
BMJ#2092 Yucca filamentosa x rostrata [Behan's clone # 1.] (BMJ#1578 x rostrata (Pollen from Ruud Wouterson).)

Pollen from Jürgen Bredow:
Yucca cf. 'Glockenriesen'

Thank you very much for your help, seeds will be heading your way, sometime late this year, when the pods have matured and the seeds been cleaned.

Here is the list of crosses which have either good size seedpods or just visible sign of pod growth (updated July 24rd. 2014):

Yucca (angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana)) x it's own pollen ((BMJ#2086A) x (BMJ#2086A)). 2 pods.

Yucca (angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana)) x "karlsruhensis type 2". ((BMJ#2086A) x 1454) 2 pods

Yucca (angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana)) x (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca). ( 2086A x BMJ#2007A) 7 pods

Yucca (angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana)) x 'Elegantissima' (BMJ#2086A)´xBMJ#1581) 5 pods.

Yucca (angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana)) x flaccida [forma glaucescens]. (BMJ#2086A x 1766) 1 pod.

Yucca (angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana)) x Yucca sp. received as seeds of Yucca arkansana, fh605.5, Oklahoma, Beckam Co., 550 m. wide leafed form with short inflorescence. (BMJ#2086A x 870C) 1 pod.

Yucca (bailey x gloriosa) Janakidizs hybrid x 'Elegantissima' (BMJ#2248 x 1581) 1 pod

Yucca (bailey x gloriosa) Janakidizs hybrid x (angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana)). (BMJ#2248 x 2086A) 1 pod.

Yucca (bailey x gloriosa) Janakidizs hybrid x (flaccida x flaccida 'Ivory'). (BMJ#2248 x 1791) 1 pod.

Yucca (bailey x gloriosa) Janakidizs hybrid x (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca). (BMJ#2248 x 2007A) 3 pods.

Yucca 'Elegantissima' x (filamentosa x rostrata Behan's clone #1). Pollen from Tim Behan. (BMJ#1581 x 2092 Behan's clone #1) 2 pods.

Yucca filamentosa narrow leaves wide open flowers x (bailey x gloriosa) Janakidizs hybrid, (BMJ#1337 x 2248) 2 pods.

Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca)). X (filamentosa x rostrata Behan's clone#1). Pollen from Tim Behan (BMJ#2007A x BMJ#1581 x 2092 Behan's clone #1) 6 pods

Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca) X (angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana)) (BMJ#2007A x 2086A).1 pod.

Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca). X (bailey x gloriosa) Janakidizs hybrid, (2007A x 2248) 4 pods

Yucca flaccida x (bailey x gloriosa) Janakidizs hybrid (BMJ#49 x 2248) 2 pods

Yucca "karlsruhensis type 2" x (angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana)). (BMJ#1454 x 2086A) 4 pods.

45 pods of the total of 17 different crosses + 1 F2 and 2 "insect selfies".

There are still 50 pollinated flowers we are waiting to see, if they will grow or not. And there are flowers left to be pollinated, I think we end a little above 100 pollinations, before we stop pollinate any more flowers this year. The pollen from Jürgen Bredow were delayed in the post, so I just starting to pollinate with the Yucca cf. 'Glockenriesen' two evenings ago. I have used this pollen on Yucca 'Elegantissima'. Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca) and on Yucca (bailey x gloriosa) Janakidizs hybrid. The pollen looks good, so I think that there are a good chance of success.

Best wishes for a very nice day.

Benny

Hallo miteinander,
noch ein kleiner Nachschlag zur Blüte des vergangenen Jahres. An den 4 Blütenständen an unseren Yuccas hatte auch ich Versuche gestartet zur Befruchtung gestartet. Die ersten Versuche an der linearifolia scheiterten komplett. An unseren alt eingesessenen Yuccas aus dem flacc,/filem.-Komplex gelangen mir 3 Früchte (Selbstung). Alle 3 Früchte fielen ohne jedoch größere Wettereinflüsse bis Ende Sept. ab. Es ist mir klar, dass in der Natur nicht alles glücken kann. Dennoch die Frage, ist bei einer Selbstung die Gefahr des Abfallens der Früchte größer?

Hallo Thomas,
sicherlich hast Du recht, dass dies im Bereich der Spekulation ist. Die Befruchtung war ja offensichtlich geglückt. Ein bißchen schwanger gibt es ja auch nicht. Lediglich der Standort läßt im September sehr wenige Sonnenstunden zu. So oder so, bei vielen ist die Selbstung schon gelungen. Ich bleibe dieses Jahr weiterhin an diesem Thema dran.