Hallo Thomas,

leider beim umkopieren vergessen die Nr. zu ändern; genau Typ # 5 x rostrata :'(!

Bin gespannt auf Deine Vergleichsfotos!

LG Jürgen

Hello all yucca breeders,

I have made an update of the seed pods in our garden.

Some of them are pollinated with pollen from Tim Behan:
BMJ#2092 Yucca filamentosa x rostrata [Behan's clone # 1.] (BMJ#1578 x rostrata (Pollen from Ruud Wouterson).)

and also from pollen from Jürgen Bredow:
Yucca cf. 'Glockenriesen'

Thanks a lot to both contributors.

Here is the list of the seedpods which looks OK at the time of writing:

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

Yucca (angustissima ssp. kanabensis x (filamentosa x arkansana) BMJ#2086A) X Yucca filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca (pollen from a plant in Gurli & Christian Lorentsen's garden) BMJ#2007A . 7 pods

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

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

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

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

Yucca (bailey x gloriosa, Janakidizs hybrid BMJ#2248) X 'Elegantissima' BMJ#1581 2 pods

Yucca (bailey x gloriosa, Janakidizs hybrid BMJ#2248) X Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca, pollen from a plant in Gurli & Christian Lorentsen's garden, BMJ#2007A). 4 pods.

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

Yucca (bailey x gloriosa, Janakidizs hybrid BMJ#2248) X BMJ#1791 flaccida [forma glaucescens]. 1 pod.

Yucca (bailey x gloriosa, Janakidizs hybrid BMJ#2248) X 'Glockenriesen' Pollen from Jürgen Bredow. 2 pods.

Yucca 'Elegantissima' BMJ#1581 X Yucca (bailey x gloriosa, Janakidizs hybrid BMJ#2248). 3 pods.

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

Yucca 'Elegantissima' BMJ#1581 X 'Glockenriesen' Pollen from Jürgen Bredow. 1 pod

Yucca 'Elegantissima' BMJ#1581 X ?? no label, probably pollinated by ants. 1 pod

Yucca (49 Yucca flaccida x 1582 Yucca 'Ivory' "Aleksander's Platz"BMJ#1791) X Yucca (bailey x gloriosa, Janakidizs hybrid, BMJ#2248) 2 pods.

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

Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca, pollen from a plant in Gurli & Christian Lorentsen's garden, BMJ#2007A) X Yucca (angustissima ssp. kanabensis x (filamentosa x arkansana)BMJ#2086A ) 1 pod.

Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca, pollen from a plant in Gurli & Christian Lorentsen's garden, BMJ#2007A) X BMJ#2248 (bailey x gloriosa, Janakidizs hybrid) 4 pods

Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca, pollen from a plant in Gurli & Christian Lorentsen's garden, BMJ#2007A) X BMJ#1581 Yucca 'Elegantissima'. 1 pod.

Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca, pollen from a plant in Gurli & Christian Lorentsen's garden, BMJ#2007A) X (filamentosa x rostrata Behans clone #1, BMJ#2092). Pollen from Tim Behan 4 pods

Yucca (filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca, pollen from a plant in Gurli & Christian Lorentsen's garden, BMJ#2007A) X 'Glockenriesen' Pollen from Jürgen Bredow. 8 pods

If I have counted correctly there are 19 different hybrids + 1 F2 and 1 "insect selfie". Totally 58 seedpods from totally 124 hand pollinations.

Almost all seed pods are positioned in the outer most parts of side branches, or at the very top of the flower stalk.

What is the situation in your gardens?

Have a nice day

Benny

Hello Beny
This year business has been successful,I wish you good germination

It's easy to lost in all that combinations for someone who watch your work periodically. With all those hybrids you need to have good database. Good work Benny!

Hello,

Thanks for the congratulations.

Now I hold my thumbs for good weather conditions the next 6-8-10 weeks, so the seed pods can grow well and the seeds inside them can grow to become good germination rates.

Mario!
Yes, I have a good database and all my plants are well labeled and each have it's own number, and each will also get it's own "clone-ID" . I have used this number-clone-ID system for my Opuntia for more than 20 years. And two years ago I started giving all seedlings an clone-ID, so when we make 1000 labels for the seedlings, this is done we are transplanting them the first time, each and every label is different!. Otherwise I would also get lost in all those names, which get longer and longer, specially when the triple hybrids gets crossed with triple hybrids :-) Like this one a triple x double hybrid:

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

When the 7 seed pods are ripe, each of those will get a number, and each seedling will get an additional a letter after the number as clone-ID.

When the hybrids of this cross blooms in maybe 5-8 years and then pollinated with another hybrid, the filenames of photos might gets too long for windows to handle, so then the numbers will become extra useful for identification.

Ohh yes, the computer is of course making a Back-up of our files everyday (right now actually).

Here is a photo of some of the pods on our Yucca 'Elegantissima':
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And here is a photo fof one of the seed pods on the Janakidsz hybrid Yucca gloriosa x baileyi (pollinated with Yucca filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca, BMJ#2007A.) This photo is from rom August 1st:
[[File:2248_Yucca_Janakidisz_hybrid_baileyi_x_gloriosa_2014-08-01_0064_Nikon_P520.jpg|none|fullsize]]

And here is one of the same seed pod made on August 22nd.:
[[File:2248_Yucca_Janakidisz_hybrid_baileyi_x_gloriosa_2014-08-22_0142_Nikon_P520.jpg|none|fullsize]]

Yes, the seed pods grow very well, when the plant is growing inside an unheated greenhouse, and watered daily.

Have a nice day

Benny

Again the photos got lost!?!?

Here is the photo of the Yucca 'Elegantissima':



Benny

And here is the photo foto one of the seed pods on the Janakidsz hybrid Yucca gloriosa x baileyi (pollinated with Yucca filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca, BMJ#2007A.) This photo is from rom August 1st:

And here is one of the same seed pod made on August 22nd.:

Hallo Benny,

die Samenkapsel deiner Y. baileyi x gloriosa sehen absolut so aus wie die an meiner Pflanze. Die Pollen stammen von einer grünen Y. thompsoniana.
Leider habe ich versäumt, eine Selbstung durchzuführen. Das ärgert mich, weil ich selbst nicht darauf gekommen bin es auszuprobieren. Es hätte bestimmt geklappt.
Die letzten Tage ist einiges von meinen Früchten abgefallen oder fing noch am Blütenstand an zu faulen. Deshalb möchte ich noch keine Liste über gelungene Kreuzungen in 2014 aufstellen.


liebe Grüße nach Dänemark, hoffentlich ist uns das Wetter gnädig
Horst

Hallo Horst,

ist ja echt ne tolle Hybride. Wenn Du da mal Samen übrig hast denk an mich.

Bei mir war dieses Jahr leider gar nichts am Blühen außer ner normalen Filamentosa /Flaccida.
Hoffentlich wird es nächstes Jahr mal besser.

Gruß
Eckhard

Hi Benny,

you're amazing. When I tried to pollinate Yuccas last year only one of 50 trials was successful.
I hope I will have some more flowering Yucca next year to start a new trial.

Hope all seeds will germinate when being sowed.

Regards
Eckhard

Horst,

Your seed pod look very big also, when were it pollinated? It looks as it's a bit further in development compared to those on my specimen. Very nice photo with the sun in the water drop. The pods on my specimen started out growing as a little upward, then as they got bigger they were horizontally, and now they are growing slightly in a downward angle. The heavy weight seedpod genes from the aloifolia in the gloriosa is really showing how strong it is.

Eckhard,

You have to continue to try, I tried for many years without any success at all.

Yes, it have been an exceptional good year and weather conditions here in Northern Denmark for the pollination of Yucca plants. Besides the good weather conditions there are another reason for the high percentage of success. I have almost only pollinated the upper most and the outer most flowers on the flower stalk. And I could have had much higher percentages success, if I had followed my own advice, and not pollinated any of those flowers, which were not situated at the upper most or outer most parts of the flower stalk. When the Yucca angustissima x (filamentosa x arkansana) started blooming I waited - Well I had to wait, while no other Yucca were in bloom that early :-) So on this Yucca I "only" pollinated 21 flowers, and of those 21 started growing and two of those did fall of, the both of them were directly at the stem of the flower stalk. The 19 remaining seedpods are still hanging on and are looking very good.

Here is a quick statistic summary for the pollinations I made this year:

Yucca Karlsruhensis type 2 BMJ#1454: 4 flowers were pollinated, 4 pods are still growing.

Yucca angustissima x (filamentosa x arkansana) BMJ hybrid #2086A: 21 flowers pollinated, 22 pods started growing (one I had not pollinated, it just formed), 19 pods are still growing. 86 % success.

Yucca gloriosa x baileyi: 54 flowers pollinated, quite a lot of pods started to grow but they did fall of when they has a size of a small finger, and only 8 are still growing. 14 % success.

Yucca filamentosa/flaccida complex "#BMJ#500" x glauca, BMJ hybrid #2007A: 28 flowers pollinated, maybe 32 pods started growing, and now there are still growing 18 pods. 56 % success

Yucca filamentosa BMJ#1337: 2 flowers pollinated, 2 pods started growing one were deformed, but a few days after a stormy day they did fall of, so 0% success on this one.

Yucca flaccida BMJ#49: 2 flowers pollinated, just as on the former 2 pods started growing one were deformed, but a few days after a stormy day they did fall of, so 0% success on this one.

Yucca sp. received as seeds of Yucca arkansana, fh605.5, Oklahoma, Beckam Co., 550 m. wide leafed form with short compact inflorescence BMJ#870C: 4 flowers pollinated, 2 pods started growing one of those were deformed, but a few days after a stormy day they did fall of, so 0% success on this one, but I know, that this one is very difficult to polllinate and only the last flower on a branch can grow to a pod.

Yucca 'Elegantissima' BMJ#1581: 9 flowers pollinated, 6 pods are still growing. 66 % Success, and only the upper - outer most flowers were pollinated.

Yucca 49 Yucca flaccida x 1582 Yucca 'Ivory' "Aleksander's Platz" = our sons garden, BMJ hybrid #1791. 3 flowers pollinated, 2 pods are still growing. 66% success

A total success rate of 46,75 % is the best I have had ever. It could have been much higher, if I had not tried pollinating so many flowers on the Yucca baileyi x gloriosa plant. But since there were growing pods from most of the first pollinated flowers, which were situated on the stem of the flower stalk, I thought, YES! this is good, this plant can grow pods everywhere on the stem... Well I were really wrong on this.

But now, I am forced to wait, and hope for good weather conditions until the pods are ripe.

Here is a photo of the Yucca angustissima x (filamentosa x arkansana) BMJ hybrid #2086A, it was made August 11th.:



As you can see, are there only 2 pods directly at the stem of the flower all the others, are at the very end of a branch or at the top of the flowerstalk.

Have a nice day and a pleasant weekend.

Benny