Igor, I love that 'nana'. Looks to me more like a baccata (banana yucca). Or even better a cross, Yucca baccata x nana, which I would call Yucca 'Ba-nana'! 🙂

Thanks, Adam! This particular yucca seedling is from koehres-kaktus.de "Yucca nana complex" seeds. Did you find your Joshua tree plant in the 4th pic? It's dying. Sorry for that... But the rest of your yucca plants are fine!

By the way, the various Y.baccata seedlings look different from this "nana" one.. I know I should take pics of all my seedlings....

Nice Yucca's. Your Y.nana have some Baccata blod for shure.

Thanks Mario! I have another excuse for labeling this yucca as the nana. Since I was sawing many seeds of the various yucca species and forms in one pot so it would be possible if some seeds have been mixed up easily. I should check some other "nana complex" seedlings.

Hi Igor,

you have a great collection of Yuccas. I can sure see the reverchonii-thompsoniana genes in the hybrid......it looks real happy in your climate.

The wide leaf nana is really nice too. Someday you'll have to create a hybrid with that one. 8)

Hi Igor,

it's very nice to see, that I am not the only one with many Yuccas in pots. Here are a few "shots" of seedling in our greenhouses:

Here is some 1 and 2 year old seedlings:

More seedlings also 1 and 2 years old:

1 year old seedlings:

2-4 year old seedlings:

To the right it's Yucca glauca x linearifolia and to the left it's Yucca glauca seedlings.

More photos next time.

Have a nice weekend

Benny

great photos Benny.........I like seeing all those seedlings!

Most of the hybrids with linearifolia genes in them seem to perform very poorly in my climate.....they are not very aggressive at all.

Wow Benny, you need more space 8) Did you try out Yucca glauca x linearifolia in your climate?

Best regards,

Mario

Oh, my Gosh! I knew you have some but so many!!! And they look much better than mines.... I should improve 😥

Mario,

No, the plants of Yucca glauca x linearifolia were sown in June 2012, and they have been store almost frost-free during their first winter, they might have been frozen for a few weeks and I don't think below -5C during that time. The next winter they will stay in their pots on the floor in the unheated greenhouse, and probably get down to at least -15 C and long periods in which the temperature is not above freezing.

Last year I started to "shade" the potted seedlings, while they can easy freeze-dry during the winter, when the soil is frozen solid for several months. And if we get a short period of temperatures above freezing, we give the young plants a little water or just put snow on the top of the soil in the pots to keep them slightly moist.. It's not a problem for big plants with big rhizomes, they can "live of" the moisture in their rhizomes.

Tim,

I have a few of H. Faber's linearifolia crosses, most are in small pots, but also two which is planted in the greenhouse. I will take some photos of them soon - and some shots of the the hybrids with "Behan's yucca genes" 🙂

Have a nice weekend

Benny

Anything with Linearifolia genes is worth a shot here in the UK. This Yucca survived our six week Narnia Winter 2010/11 completely unaffected by that freeze. Its quite at home with wet cold also.
Igor .... a great collection of yuccas especially that "Nana" Is that a dasylirion you have also? Looks like Miquihuanensis?
Benny....when will your seedlings be available for sale?

Hello Andy,

I do not expect that hybrid Yucca glauca x linearifolia will be hardy outside in our garden, but I hope, that they will be OK in the unheated greenhouse, or if planted close to the house-wall. It is not the minimum temperatures that worries me, it is the length of our winters. Every 5-10 years we get horror winters with temperatures below freezing for 2½ to 4 months, sometimes with snow and sometimes without.

The seedlings of this cross has very long and thin leaves for their age (they were sown in late June 2012). I will have to take some photos of some of them, so I can show you how they look.

You can send me an email, then I can let you know, what we have "extra" plants of.

Have a nice weekend

Benny

Igor,

Your Yucca filamentosa "Tennessee" x reverchonii-thompsoniana looks great. I can't remember if I have any of this cross.

I know that I have a "big" one of Tim's Yucca flaccida [distributed as recurvifolia] "Tennessee Mountains" x (reverschonii x thompsoniana) . Here is a photo of this one planted inside the greenhouse. It was sown in March 2010.

And to the left of it, you can see one of my small Yucca nana's. This one is still "blue" as yours, when it's older it will grow "normal" green leaves. Your plant looks great has it been outside for a winter ?

Best wishes

Benny