Yucca glauca v stricta is about to bloom......

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Yucca glauca v stricta is about to bloom. This is it's first bloom and it's already over 6 feet tall......seed grown from 2001.
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Here's the entire Yucca........a little 'beat up' from winter snows.
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Posted : 26/05/2013 9:38 pm

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Way to go! Is this a first for stricta in your garden? 8)

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Posted : 27/05/2013 1:11 am

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Grats tim!

Seeing how bad your winter was (was it the worse in a good decade or so?) it looks pretty good. You gonna cross pollinate?

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Posted : 27/05/2013 7:21 am

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Jesse,

I think the 08-09 winter was worse for the Yuccas in my garden.....lots of death/damage that winter. I would say last winter was slightly below normal.

Aaron,

I had another Y. glauca v stricta bloom in 2011. It was seed grown from seed collected by Robert Pitman of Idaho when he was traveling through NE and KS. I think this was the 'Maxwell, NE' form........it does not grow erect trunks like the 'Jetmore, KS' form.

Posted : 27/05/2013 8:55 am

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about to open.....

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Posted : 02/06/2013 10:05 pm

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getting ready to bloom...............

Posted : 07/06/2013 8:28 pm

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Tim,

Methinks that my seed grown Yucca elata are actually Y. glauca var. stricta. I'll post updated pics soon, but the similarities to your stricta are apparent.

Posted : 17/06/2013 1:42 pm

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any update Paul? Strictas typically have a weird looking bloom which looks likes a cross between glauca and elata.

Posted : 21/06/2013 11:22 pm

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Soon. I'm thinking they are stricta... Damned seed companies!

Posted : 23/06/2013 9:06 am

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Really nice Tim...

I wonder if your neighbors think your spying on them...
"hey,that thing wasn't there last week was it,?what is it??? ":D

Posted : 23/06/2013 8:11 pm

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Here are some pics from my place.
2 Standard Yucca glauca (Canadian Tire end of season specials, $5 a piece!)

Close up of a flower:

And the former Yucca elata, which I'm now calling Yucca glauca var. stricta... Much more massive than 'regular' glauca in all its parts. I'll have to get myself a real Yucca elata now, I think I still have some seed (that I collected myself!). Grrrrrr.

Anyone else have issues with companies selling mislabeled seeds?

Posted : 24/06/2013 10:17 am

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Great work, Tim!

Paul, those Yuccas were a fantastic deal! Y. glauca is one of the few Yucca species that I have right now.

Posted : 26/06/2013 5:40 pm

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Hi Paul,

thanks for the great photos! That short blooming Y. glauca is really cool.............I've never seen a glauca with such a short bloom........perhaps it's got some western glauca genes in it.

Posted : 27/06/2013 9:18 pm