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Posted by newbirdman 7 b NJ (newbirdman@aol.com) on Thu, Apr 21, 05 at 7:25
| Okay , I'm wasnt sure were else to ask for help with this plant but since I'm from NJ , I thought I'd ask my people . Anyway , I just found a 6 foot yucca tree that someone threw out in the garbage . The kind that looks like a palm tree . Its at least a foot thick and weighs about 60 lbs . Now when I first saw it I thought this isnt going to live because they cut the tap root off . There is nothing there but a stub . They also cut off all the leaves so it looks like a giant pineapple . I'm not sure how long it was out of the ground before they tossed it . Anyway , this was on monday that I got it so I stuck it in a 5 gallon bucket with water with the hope that it would help . Now 4 days later the top is growing and the leaves are about 2" - 3"s longer . Am I doing the right thing by letting it soak in water for this long ? I want to plant it but I'm not sure if it will survive since it doesn have a root . Should I let it soak for a little while longer or plant now ? Since this is a desert plant , will it soak up and store the water like a cautus ? Also how much is this thing worth ? I've always wanted one . Rick |
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RE: Yucca tree - help 911
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Go for it. What have you got to lose? I might plant it by the weekend. Read up on it's care. And hope for the best.
I found mine along the road, dug it up and planted it in my front yard. It hasn't failed to bloom since. Your's is a tree and I am not really familiar with them. |
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| I have seen the hardy yuccas in tree form in S. Jersey. I have seen some here that are forming trunks (could be Y. gloriosa or recurvifolia). If that is what you actually have, then even cutting the tap root probably wouldn't kill it. LOL If it does get stressed, it puts up pups around the base. And although one might think of them as being desert plants (and I am sure that a number of species are), there are some like Y. filamentosa more commonly seen around these parts, that can grow near water believe it or not. One of my sisters has one at her house that the previous owners planted literally on a creek bank. And the thing had the nerve to bloom! The tap root made a bee line for the creek too! 
Go on and plant and it might sulk for the season, but by next year, it should hopefully be okay. |
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| Thanks for the info but both of you are thinking about the wrong yucca's . Mine is a tree type with a truck about a foot across and its 6 feet tall . This isnt the low wild type you see growing all over . The last time I priced one was about 3 years ago they were selling for $55.00 a foot so this one is worth about $300.00 + .If it was one of those Adams needle yucca's , I wouldnt have bothered with it . As for blooming , I've never seen one of these bloom . Rick |
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hello rick,
are its leave thin and soft, by soft i mean bendable/flexible. of are they very wide and rigid totally unbendable.
i grow 2 types in my yard in north jersey one with the soft leaf is yucca rostrata the other type is faxsoniana strong unbendable leaves.
i don't know how to post pictures on this board or i would post shots of mine for you.
can anynoe e-mail me directions on hw to post a picture on this board e-mail at L40@aol.com
but i would put it in a raised bed as soon as possible that drains fast these 2 types of yuccas that i have do not like wet feet for the winter, and i would think your yucca wouldn't like wet feet either unless its recurvafolia but i never seen one of those with a 1 foot wide trunk.
good luck with your find
nj steve z-6 |
Re: Looking for Yucca Recurvifolia tree
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| I am looking for a few Yucca recurvifolias for my garden. If anyone knows where I might get them please email me at. Bird605@optonline.net Thank You
John |
RE: Yucca tree - help 911
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| I have a yucca tree not sure what kind it is but it has sturdy sharp pointed green leaves it said on the label when i got it yucca then something else cane tree...I'm not exactly sure how to take care of it I live in canada and we get some cold winters here how can i maintain it inthe winter as well as the summer I know nothing of these trees ...lol... |
RE: Yucca tree - help 911
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On my yucca tree at the bottom is another sprout growing out of the base of the trunk near the soil??
is that ok and what should I do??? |
RE: Yucca tree - help 911
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| I have a yucca tree, not sure what kind, It has bendable leaves and lookes like a coconut tree to me. I am having trouble with it. I have it in the house and it has started loosing it's top leaves. It has 2 small sprouts growing from the base. What should I do? |
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