I forgot.

The three pods were all pollinated August 9th. so they are still very young. I have never started pollinating this late in the summer, but because of the extremely cold summer all plants are delayed. I saw Lilacs in bloom in the city two days ago, they usually bloom in June......

Best wishes

Benny

Hello,

1454 Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2". 1 pod made with it's own pollen.

1785B Yucca (flaccida x glauca) X 2355D (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid) 3 pods

1785B Yucca (flaccida x glauca) X (filamentosa x rostrata Behan's clone #2) 1 pod

2368A Yucca ('Anna' x "Karlsruhensis type 2") X 2355D (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid) 3 pods maybe 1 more..
2368A Yucca ('Anna' x "Karlsruhensis type 2") X elata (pollen from Tim Behan) 1. pod and maybe 1 more.
2368A Yucca ('Anna' x "Karlsruhensis type 2") X 2368A Yucca ('Anna' x "Karlsruhensis type 2") X (Maybe 1. OK.)

Here is a photo of Tim Behan's beautiful hybrid Yucca (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid):



I have not yet pollinated it Tim's hybrid, but it's pollen is used for almost half of the 22 pollinations, I have made during the last 9 days. When weather conditions is better I will start pollinating it, and also try to make some seeds with it's own pollen also.

The Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2" x rostrata (pollen from Ruud W. in NL) has opened the first flowers, so I can start collecting pollen of it :-)

Have a nice day

Benny

Great job creating more interesting Yuccas. Your Y. Fila 'Tenn' x 'reverchonii-thompsoniana' has a nice large bloom for such a small plant :)

Hello Tom,

I have a question for you, how big are the seed pods on your Yucca xkarlsruhensis?

As you might know, do I grow a plant which I did receive as Yucca Karlsruhensis type 2, originating from Zagreb botanical garden. BMJ#1454 Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2" This plant is like a miniature Yucca flaccida, smaller in all it's parts. The seed pod looks quite a lot of those on your Yucca xkarlsruhensis, both in in shape and color, the size are around 25 mm thick and 40 mm long, some are smaller and a few might be just a little larger. And as yours, almost all pods are situated at the very end of the side branches or at the very top of the flower stalk.

Have a nice day

Benny

Hallo,

ich habe heute schon die ersten Yucca-Samen geerntet. Die Frucht wurde schon vor ca. 1½ bis 2 Wochen nicht mehr von der Pflanze versorgt. Ich habe sie dann noch hängen und etwas eintrocknen lassen. Es handelte sich um eine sehr kleine Frucht an der Y. louisianensis x pallida die ich mit einer Y. glauca ssp. stricta bestäubt hatte. Dementsprechend sind auch nur sehr wenige Samen drin gewesen. Leider nur 11 ausgereifte Samen. Ich hoffe die Zeit hat ausgereicht, sodass die Samen auch keimfähig sind.

Yucca (louisianensis x pallida) x glauca ssp. stricta



Die Früchte an meiner Y. filamentosa x rostrata und an der Y. cf. elegantissima sehen übrigens auch so aus als ob sie nicht mehr versorgt werden. Zu mindest ist der Stängel des Blütenstandes abgetrocknet. Etwas früh finde ich. Wie sieht es denn bei anderen aus?

Hello Mirko,

I can see, that the seed pod were a little deformed, and such pods usually only have a few good seeds inside it. I once had a pod with 3 or 5 good seeds, it was from a pod pollinated with pollen from a Yucca thomsoniana send to me from Sascha W. I did get one nice plant out of it :-). Thumps up, congratulations and good luck.

Yesterday I made a count of the still very young pods in our garden, here is the result of the 63 flowers we have pollinated between August 9th and August 24th.:

1336C Yucca filamentosa (red flower stalk and buds) x 1785B (flaccida x glauca) 1 pod
1336C Yucca filamentosa (red flower stalk and buds) x 2083A "Karlsruhensis type 2" x rostrata) 2 pods.
1336C Yucca filamentosa (red flower stalk and buds) x 1402 [big "blue" form of Y. filamentosa?] 1 pod

1402 [big "blue" form of Y. filamentosa?] x 2083A "Karlsruhensis type 2" x rostrata) 2 pods
1402 [big "blue" form of Y. filamentosa?] x 2355D (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid) 2 pods
1402 [big "blue" form of Y. filamentosa?] x 1785B Yucca (flaccida x glauca) 1 pod

1454 Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2". 1 pod made with it's own pollen.

1785B Yucca (flaccida x glauca) X 2355D (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid) 6 pods
1785B Yucca (flaccida x glauca) X (filamentosa x rostrata Behan's clone #2 pollen from Tim Behan) 1 pod

2368A Yucca ('Anna' x "Karlsruhensis type 2") X 2355D (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid) 4 pods (7 different yucca have given genes to this one!)
2368A Yucca ('Anna' x "Karlsruhensis type 2") X elata (pollen from Tim Behan) 2. pods
2368A Yucca ('Anna' x "Karlsruhensis type 2") X 2368A Yucca ('Anna' x "Karlsruhensis type 2") X (Maybe 1. OK.)

2355D (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid) x 1402 [big "blue" form of Y. filamentosa?] 2 pods
2355D (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid) x 1785B (flaccida x glauca) 3 pods
2355D (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid) x 2083A "Karlsruhensis type 2" x rostrata) 4 pods.
2355D (filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) Behan hybrid) x 2368A Yucca ('Anna' x "Karlsruhensis type 2") 1 pod (7 different yucca have given genes to this one!)

I also think, that there are pod forming on the Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2" x rostrata) made with it's own pollen.

I might have counted wrong :-), and I may loose a few to fungus later on :-(

I really hope, that the winter will be very late this year, so the pods can get mature before frost stop the growth of the pods. Our Yucca constricta will probably start blooming within the next 2 weeks. Hopefully is some of the pollen I have collected still alive by then.

Have a nice day

Benny

Hello Benny,

the first of 4 Fruits is ripe, they are different in its size, i think 5 x 2 cm and one is smaller.
There grow 2 new heads out or next to the flowerstalk, maybe is gets a stem and is no original x karlsruhensis.
I got it unknown. I have not pollinated the Plant and there were are no ants on it....

kind regards
Tom

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Hi Benny,

wow, great and very interesting new hybrid creations with genes from a lot involved yucca species! And so many seed pods despite your weather conditions in this summer, that is indeed an amazing job!

For this we can you only sincerely congratulate!

Bedste ønsker,


Jürgen

Also ich habe die Früchte von der Y. filam./flacc. x rostrata und der Y. cf. elegantissima heute geerntet. Sie wurden wie gesagt nicht mehr von der Pflanze versorgt, also kann ich sie auch drinnen nachreifen lassen. Wer weiß, bei dem regnerischen Wetter was angekündigt wurde fängt vielleicht noch was an zu faulen!?

oben links = 4x Y. cf. elegantissima x glauca
oben rechts = 4x Y. cf. elegantissima x 'Glockenstab'
unten links = 2x Y. (filam./flacc. x rostrata) x reverchonii
unten rechts = 1x Y. (filam./flacc. x rostrata) x glauca ssp. stricta

Hi Mirko,

Gratulation auch an Dich. Cool dass die Glockenstab gefunzt hat! Klingt Alles auch interessant!

Die Kartausgarten-Infloreszenz ist noch voll im Saft. Selbst die Ästchen zu den zu frühzeitig abortierten Pods!
jeweils 3 Purpur-Pods mit der besonders silberblauen Y. rostrata 'Blue Swan', reverchonii und pallida; sowie einige Pods im unteren Blütenstandsbereich mit unklarer Vaterschaft.


Pollendonor: Y. pallida

die Glockenstab hatte leider nur eine Frucht behalten - und zwar mit Y. baccata. Aber es gibt- wenn überhaupt, nur wenige Samen! Besonders betrübt mich, dass alle angesetzten Früchtchen mit Yucca nana abortiert sind. Der Blütenstand und die Frucht an dieser sind nunmehr auch eingetrocknet und sicher erntereif. An dieser kleinen Yucca haben sich bereits zwei Achsel- / Kopftriebe an der Basis des noch versorgten Blütenstandes gebildet. Das macht diese hübsche und blühfreudige Yucca stets, nur die Stämmchen bleiben halt sehr kurz, und es entwickelt sich mehr eine kaudexartigen Wurzelknolle, mit immer mehr aufsitzenden Schöpfen. Die einzige Schimana-Selektion, die bei den Schimanas nicht überlebt hatte.

Leider klemmt momentan wieder was mit dem Einstellen der Fotos, also dann später,

GN Jürgen

Great job with all the new hybrids in 2015!!!

I too will be picking some pods in the coming weeks :)

Hello Tom,

Thanks for the answer. Thats also some quite small pods, when compared to the hybrids, which I have made with Yucca glauca as one of the hybrid-parent. I will have to ask around to someone whom have had pods on a original plant from Darmstadt. I have a suspicion, that the plant I grow as Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2" from Zagreb is an ancient F2 or an undocumented "cross-back" Graebner made with Yucca flaccida.

I have some young F2 plants from the real Yucca xkarlsruhensis (thanks to Alex Heim) and I do also have a small plant originating from Darmstadt (Thanks to Sascha W.). My original Yucca xkarlsruhensis might bloom in 2-3-4 years from now.

I often see deformed seed pods or pods with only very few good black seeds, if it's a pods made with it self (both those made by hand or by "accident").

Have a nice day

Benny

Jürgen,

Yes, we have a very delayed season because of an extreme cold summer, but in mid August we had 10 days with the rare wind from east, east-north-east, which did send the temperature above 25 some days and above 20C the remaining. These few summer-days were just perfect for pollination, and from August 9th to August 24th. we pollinated 63 flowers, of those flowers we have 42 seedpods forming on the different flower stalks. Most pollinated flowers are top flowers or at the end of branches flowers, which is why we can have such a high success rate, the highest % success we ever have had. The big issue is now that the days are considerable shorter every week and the temperature is rapidly lowering the pods will grow very slowly - so they will probably need 12-16 weeks before they ripe.... that's around Christmas-time. Ho-ho, now you know, what I wish for Christmas

I really like the purple seed pod on your Yucca "Kartausgarten", I have some in almost the same color in the garden. And your Yucca 'Glockenstab' x baccata will be a great hybridplant, the baccata genes are very dominant in growth.

So we need all the luck we can get :-)

Best wishes

Benny