Congratulations, hopefully will you be able to make small rhizome cuttings of it eventually. With only 2½ month from a cutting to such a fine growth, is it promising for the future propagation of this great clone.
Here is a photo of one of my seedlings grown from seed of Yucca 'Big Mama':
It is growing with two other Yucca hybrids in a large pot filled with pea size gravel from the roof of the garage, the "growing medium" is also containing 40 years of dust, small mosses and lichen
It were sown June 20th 2012 and planted in the pot outside sometime in 2014.
Thank you Gerd and Benny. Benny, the Yucca in your pot located at the upper-left looks very nice. Which hybrid is that??
The propagation of Big Mama had good timing. End of June is perfect since our temps are ramping up and nights are warm. The small black pot placed in full sun heats up quick and promotes root growth. I also propagated some fila x rostrata 'mailbox' pups and roots are coming out the bottom of the pots!!
We are still very warm here, well above average. It feels like summer.
Good news with the Yucca filamentosa x rostrata 'mailbox', it is a very nice compact form.
The Yucca to the upper left is one of my hybrids: Yucca 'Elena's Star' X xfloribunda, the pollen was from Mark van Zwet, thanks a lot Mark. I made it in 2010 and I had four seed pods which were given the numbers: BMJ 2010-004. BMJ 2010-005, BMJ 2010-006, BMJ 2010-007.
The outcome of this hybridization is very variable in growth and leaf color, some are pale green and others are quite blue in appearance, some has quite narrow leaves and some are quite wide. All have leaves which is rigid, most are solitary in growth but a few is clumping.
Here is a photo of the upper left specimen taken last year August 22nd. 2014:
And here is another photo taken this year August 24th. 2015:
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