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Aloeysius
Joined: Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:16 pm Posts: 193 Location: The Netherlands
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'topping up' Beschorneria yuccoides?
My Beschorneria yuccoides that I grow in a pot (for lack of space) is forming a rather substantial 'trunk'. This plant is in its pot for some 6 years now and alongside the trunk (=15 cm high) there are some green 'eyes'/ shoots that can't develop properly (they dry out every year because they're above ground). It almost looks like the earth around the plant has 'sunk'.
I was thinking: is it okay to top up with some soil around the main trunk so that the 'eyes' are burried and can actually start to become proper side shoots, or will this damage the motherplant (and cause the trunk to rot??).
I was thinking about soil that has a lot of horticultural grit in it for extra drainage...
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Wed May 31, 2017 2:52 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: 'topping up' Beschorneria yuccoides?
This is not something I have come across my plants are out in the garden but not happy, too cold, I would think filling the space in with soil should not cause a problem especially at this time of year whilst the planting is actively growing.
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Wed May 31, 2017 8:35 pm |
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johnw
Joined: Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:37 pm Posts: 240 Location: Halifax, NS
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Re: 'topping up' Beschorneria yuccoides?
Would love to know how you grow this Beschorneria in a pot. I've tried everything and they're gone after a year or two in the cold greenhouse. Wet or dry? Winter or summer? Had one going great guns with fabulous red roots, died a week after transplanting to a 4L pot.
john
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Thu Jun 01, 2017 12:52 am |
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Aloeysius
Joined: Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:16 pm Posts: 193 Location: The Netherlands
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Re: 'topping up' Beschorneria yuccoides?
Thanks for your replies guys..John: our winters are perhaps slightly less accomodating than certain (coastal) parts of the UK; that's why I still grow this in a pot so that when it does get below -4/-5C I can take it indoors. Unfortunately it has never flowered, due to the lack of space for the roots (and plant) to fully develop.
It does look good as a bluish rosette amidst much greener foliage, but it's the flowers that I am still after..
Maybe I should plant it out, were it not for the fact that it now has a trunk that could rot in winter (if lowered into the ground, hence my question if it would be wise to top it up with extra soil in the pot)...
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Mon Jun 05, 2017 8:26 pm |
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AlexW
Joined: Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:39 pm Posts: 95 Location: Reading UK
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Re: 'topping up' Beschorneria yuccoides?
Beschorneria yuccoides can easily take -5, mine has been through a few -7 winters without showing any damage, and my garden is in shadow all winter too. B. albiflora on the other hand...
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Tue Jun 06, 2017 7:56 am |
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david s
Joined: Tue May 09, 2017 5:26 pm Posts: 34 Location: Woodford UK
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Re: 'topping up' Beschorneria yuccoides?
I have not heard they produce a trunk at all so I am surprised that yours is. My ones flower and then the original rosette dies and produces lots of small offshoots. I now have 3 large clumps around the garden and more in pots. They are almost too successful in my garden and are starting to overrun other plants.
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Tue Jun 06, 2017 10:19 am |
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Andy Martin
Joined: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:58 pm Posts: 1279 Location: Oxford UK
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Re: 'topping up' Beschorneria yuccoides?
Interesting comments on this thread. I grow many species of Beschornerias... Yuccoides "quicksilver", rigida, septentrionalis, tubiflora, albiflora, yuccoides x septentrionalis hybrid and calcicola. All grow in the ground except albiflora.
The yuccoides quicksilver survived -12C and a week of permafrost but after the thaw its main leaves all withered and died. New growth came from nodal growths on the leaves from the pseudo trunk. I'm no expert but the whole species appear to grow offshoots from underground nodal points similar to non trunking and trunking Yuccas. I think covering an area of green trunk might not be a good idea. Interestingly and annoyingly the Yuccoides quicksilver has never flowered. I do not know the reason why. Beschorneria tubiflora I have found is much more tender than yuccoides and this species has never flowered for me .
Alex... As you may know my albiflora has survived outside for over three years now. It took a lot of frost last winter with a -7C recorded. I have found that when it gets cold stressed the leaves go a reddish tinge. I guess having a trunk and being more mature gives it more resistance to the cold. BTW I have a new shoot from the roots despite the trunking. Current pic of albiflora
_________________ Lover of Yuccas,Palms,Nolinas,Schefflera.
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Tue Jun 06, 2017 11:40 am |
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