My Yucca is sending a stalk up. I just wonder what you all think of cutting off the stalk to keep it from blooming. One we had in the front garden bloomed last year and, of course, the parent died and pups came up this Spring. Now the 2 in one of the back gardens are going to bloom. I have done this with other plants to keep the parent alive. Will this work with a Yucca?
I am just now starting with yucca starts. Looks like they stuck roots in the ground and they sprouted plants along the root. Am curious to hear about their flowering behavior. I was told never to plant them because they can be a bit of a weed here...but then I like weeds in pots.
They are pretty easily kept at bay. I can think of many other plants that are really hard to keep them from going wild.
Yucca are related to Asparagus plants. That's why they have flowers on tall stalks. It's the Asparagaceae family. My hubby's family and my family had these plants our whole childhood and we are both remembering that the parent plant did not die after blooming. The yucca is also related to the Century Plant, which we all know is supposed to bloom once in the century and then die while sending out pups. We had a Century Plant many years ago and kept it under the aluminum bench in the greenhouse each Winter. All of a sudden we looked at the top of the bench and it was a little rippled and the pots were sitting crooked. We saw that the Century Plant had sent a spike about 3 inches in diameter up. It was trying to go through the metal shelf. It found the seen and pushed it, went through it and bloomed. It was cool until we tried to cut the stalk. My hubby had to use a saw to do it. Then the plant died. I wash I had pictures of that now. It really showed the power and will to propagate of a plant.
I'm just getting into yuccas too. Mom has a huge one that blooms around my birthday every year. I plan to get a start off of hers but don't know the best way to do it :-?
I just dig and pull and when you plant them water the hole first and water, water, water after you're done. Then water for the first week..allot
I don't mean to be semantically pedantic, but Yuccas don't die after flowering (except Y. whipplei) because those aren't pups. They are actually new apical meristems. So, it appears that the plant dies but it's actually just one leader that dies and other ones from the same plant taking over.
