Hello Sascha,

Thanks for showing us your Yucca pallida, it's a beauty. I wish you very good luck with the hybridization. I find it quite difficult to pollinate Yucca pallida and the green form Yucca rupicola, because of the long pistil.

With in the next 2-3 weeks, we will have flowers in one of our Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2", which usually give very nice hybrid "Children". I have made hybrids with my own bright green Yucca rupicola, so it would be very interesting to pollinate it with some "blue" pollen from Yucca pallida. I would be very glad if it were possible for me to get a a little pollen from the last flowers of yours. Yucca"Karlsruhensis type 2" is normally easy to pollinate and even if it has very small seed pods the only few seeds, they are usually very good to germinate. It only have one problem the old flowers hang on to the plant for minium 2 weeks, which makes one think, "YES, I have made a new hybrid", and then one week later the pod drops of :-( I have also made hybrids on with Tim Behan's Yucca reverchonii x thompsoniana on Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2" The seedling thereof is slower growing and has a "blue" color, so I would think, that the seedlings of a possible Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2" x pallida will give very "blue" hybrids.

Take care

Benny

P.S. Oh-yes, please try to make some self pollinated seeds, as it might give very strong seedlings, since it comes from a specimen which can survive in your garden.

Hello Sascha,

Super.

Yes, that's a good point, there is little chance of rain getting into the pistil. I have only had one seedpod forming on my Yucca rupicola, but it was knocked of in a storm :-(. It was was a surprise for me, while the plant is growing inside a greenhouse, which do have the door open and has several side window remove for ventilation. Besides the loss of the seed pod, all the extra pots labels and such stuff were blow into the end of the greenhouse in a big messy pile after that storm.

If you know someone, whom might have a Yucca 'Bright Edge' in bloom, it would be a good idea to send some pollen to those. The hybrids I have made of Yucca 'Bright Edge' x rupicola looks very similar to the pollen-parent Yucca rupicola. So maybe hybrids with pollen from Yucca pallida, will look very similar to Yucca pallida, but be much more tolerant to moisture?

It's my opinion, that Yucca pallida is a blue form of Yucca rupicola, while there are only two differences, the leaf color and the form of the leaf. Both forms has as juvenile plants wavy twisting leaves, but Yucca pallida grows erect leaves, and has the new growth as a spike when it's older. Whereas Yucca rupicola continue to have it's "juvenile" growth, by growing the new leaves almost like a bromeliad, and is remaining the wavy twisting leaves. Both are to my experience very slow to start new rosettes after it has been in bloom. Oh yes, up here Yucca pallida is more hardy than Yucca rupicola maybe it's because it's having "mature formed" leaves instead of "juvenile formed" leaves.

Well I better stop, before I get carried away :-)

Have a nice day everyone

Benny

Hallo,

meine Y. pallida sieht leider nicht gut aus. Aber der Reihe nach. Der kalte Juni und der darauf folgende Juli waren extrem naß in meiner Region. Das hat leider Spuren hinterlassen. Der August hingegen ist sehr sonnig und deutlich wärmer, für mich ist dies die Erklärung für diesen Wuchs.

Es haben sich einige gelbe Blätter gebildet und aus der Mitte wächst ein Schopf mit deutlich kleineren aber gesunden Blättern. Sieht aus als wenn die Y. pallida eine Blüte schieben würde, dem ist aber nicht so.


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Horst

Also meiner Y. pallida hat die häufe und auch heftige Regen nichts ausgemacht. Sie hat dieses Jahr wieder schön zugelegt. Vielleicht bekommt sie ja wie letztes Jahr Ende August / Anfang September noch mal einen zweiten Wachstumsschub.