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Read recently on this forum about successful transformation of Y. Filementosas to trunking Yuccas.Sounds great especially with their rapid clumping habit so can soon get heaps of plants.Would be interested to hear of others successes in this.
Late autumn here in NZ so will have to leave my trial for a few months!Cheers Ian Mc

I agree
I would like to see how other people have done this? I read of people doing this before I gave it a try.

I recently had my yucca filamentosa put on the rarepalmseeds.com website. Here is the link;
http://www.rarepalmseeds.com/pix/YucFila.shtml
I would love to find out how to get it to trunk!

Hi Wes
That is a nice pic of your yucca, how nice they put that on their website

Hey Aaron,

How are your yuccas doing this summer? Do you have any updated pics of your garden for us to see. Would love to see some more pics if you have any new ones.

Regards,
Jay

Most of my yuccas are doing good my trunking filamentosa has not done much of anything this year, but I will keep playing around with it. But some have done very well, like my joshua trees.
I will get some new pics up later this summer or sooner I hope

Sounds good Aaron. Keep us posted.

Here is a pic of my best trunking Filamentosa-2005, but has not done much this year

That's so cool. I like seeing updated pics of your trunking Filamentosa. I noticed the other day one of my filamentosas is sending up another flower stalk.

Hey Aaron,

I forgot to mention what i found growing in Kelowna around last October. When i was driving through a trailor park i noticed what i believe to be a filamentosa with about a 5 inch trunk on it.

I'll try to get some pics of it this spring/summer.

Regards,
Jay

That would be cool Jay

Getting to the end of our summer.Although a garden round the corner has nice flowering Y.Filamentosas nil on our plants scattered round the garden after several years regular flowering! Any ideas thanks?

Do they get lots of water? They might need to dry out for a bit or a resting time before they will flower. Stress the plant then give it what it wants then it should flower.

Thanks Aaron.We've had pretty severe drought conditions for months so I may well have over compensated with garden hose.
Off topic:Jim Rutledge from BC just had 2 finishing golf holes of Eagle/Birdy to move to the lead at Clearwater Golf a couple of miles up the road.

Ok... here is my trunking filamentosa 2006, it did not do much and my be going down hill, but is still alive The two top trunks have died. I may have tried to push it to much?

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Very cool yuccas. I know you explained before how to get your filamentosas to trunk but I can't find that post. I want to get some of mine to do the same.

Hi Wes,
I did several different things, some worked - some did not and some things worked for a while. Basically find the largest plant you have, twist-pull or cut all the suckers from around the base, pull the dead leaves off and then only keep the spears that you want to keep on the trunk. I try to keep the highest spears on the trunk I can find. keep a couple growing at a time, always make sure the one you keep is a growing spear, I tried to keep forcing one spear to keep growing and after some flowers they stopped growing and died and no other spears budded out. So I have a lot to learn. trial and error
P.S. if you cut a bud off the plant, it will heal very fast.