Move a Yucca? Your in trouble. 😆

Moving is easy.....dig it up and plant it into the new location. Roots of filamentosa typically don't go down more the 1 foot. The part which people hate is that you'll have 10 new plants come up where the mother plant was. Filamentosa roots go more horizontal than vertical......they are like narrow potatoes.

Here's a tall trunked Y. gloriosa form I dug up and the roots are not all that large.........but I got many new babies!
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Ah thats good then. Im sure i wont have to worry about too many babies popping up. The problem with the spot is not enough light, and too much water in spring.

Thanks for the advice

10 new plants come up where the mother plant was.

Or still is...That's the truth, anybody want 10 of mine?

My neighbor tried digging her 20 year old y.filamentosas...she gave up.
Said it was like trying to cut through stumps below the ground.
Must've had lots of horizontal hard roots in her very dry field.

I had a similar experience and quit, had no idea to just keep going a little bit more.
Even tried a crowbar and the bugger still wouldn't come out.
So left it there.

Barb

I'd probably place a piece of 4 x 8 plywood over the Yucca roots to kill it........no light = no food.

plywood over the Yucca roots to kill it........no light = no food

Light penetrates soil/rocks in the ground?
😯

Interesting, Tim.

Barb

Barb, the Yucca roots will send up new shoots............if they don't get light they will die along with the roots. :salute:

Grasshopper finally got it, thanks Tim. 😆

Barb

Ever since i found out about Gloriosa ive loved them. Dunno why..

Thanks for the advice again. Ill use the post hole digger. Only thing that wont go through are hard rocks.

Hi Jesse,

keep in mind the west coast of the USA call Y. elephantipes = Y. gloriosa.........not sure why. The true gloriosa does not look like Y. elephantipes. Y. gloriosa will not be hardy in your area unless you protect it. Even I am pushing the limits..........never see them in our area. They may be a zone 5b or 6a plant when planted in a supermicroclimate or planted in very dry locations......like out west. Aaron will tell us soon since he is zone 5b and has a few gloriosas.

Y guatamalensis used to be Elephantipes.

So wait.... when you say that seedling looks like guatamalensis, youre saying it looks like gloriosa, not "spanish dagger", the common houseplant?

Hi Jesse

I misunderstood you when you said you had a Y. guatamalensis.........I thought you germinated it from seed...............then I thought your wide leaf Yucca could be another Y. guatamalensis. The true gloriosa is a different plant from elephantipes/guatamalensis. I've never seen such wide leaf gloriosa seedlings.........but under low light conditions Y. gloriosa may get wider leaves? I'm not sure what your seedling is.........if it's a Yucca I would have guessed a Yucca native to Mexico not the USA.

Only you would know the parentage of this seed......

The farthest north I have seen Gloriosa is at the St.Louis zoo-
did not know they could make it there-tried an Aloifolia in StL
when I was a teenager....didn't work-didn't know what I was doing...

StL zoo.

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Jim, Good looking yucca.