Evergreen Exotic Plant, looks like a palm tree, perfectly stuck in apartments, office buildings, greenhouses.
With its spectacular appearance, unpretentiousness in content, yucca has won a large number of fans among fans of indoor floriculture.
Flower Yucca: reproduction, photo, planting, cultivation, transplanting and care.
Breeding
How to propagate the yucca? At home false palm tree grows about four meters tall. The reproduction of the plant is carried out in various ways, each of which deserves a separate attention.
Seeds
This way used in rare cases, because indoors the yucca does not bloom. You can buy seeds in a flower shop, or get them from a plant growing in a comfortable climate zone for it. Receiving seedlings can be provided that the planting material was fresh.
Seeds are wrapped in a piece of damp cloth and incubated for 24 hours. Upon expiration, they are sown in the prepared soil mixture. It should consist of equal parts of turf, leafy ground and high peat. The container is covered on top with plastic or glass to create a greenhouse effect.
At least twice a day, crops need to be aired and the accumulated condensate must be removed from the surface of the glass or film.
Shoots will begin to appear in thirty to forty days.
Tops
If desired, it is possible to ensure that the yucca on the trunk has two or three fan-shaped tops. This is done when the false palm has grown more than thirty centimeters in height. Using a sharp knife, cut off the top of the plant. Be sure to stay on the trunk a few leaves.
Slice sprinkled with pounded charcoal. Where there was a cut, after some time young shoots will appear, and the top is used to produce a new false palm. It should dry in air for two hours, after which it sinks into roasted sand or a container of water for rooting. Just before use, the water must be boiled and cooled.
When the lower leaf plates rot, they are cut off, and the water changes. After the roots appear, the tip is planted in a separate pot.
Cuttings
Propagation of Yucca palm tree by pieces of stem stalks. If you take a good look, you can see sleeping budsthat are on the woody trunk of the false palm.
There are a lot of them and each of them, when creating certain conditions, is able to give new shoots.
All the nutrients obtained by yucca from the soil are redirected to the development of the crown, so until the tip is on the trunk, the shoots will not wake up.
After cutting the crown from the plant, young leaf plates begin to form under the cut. This feature of yucca can be perfectly used for breeding. This process do so:
- the trunk is cut into pieces, each of which must be at least twenty centimeters;
- the finished segments are placed in a mixture of peat and sand for rooting;
- the container is covered with plastic or glass jar.
Between february and april is best for grafting.
Use of lateral processes
When to plant and how to grow a yucca from a process at home? On the trunk of the false palm, lateral processes regularly appear that can be used to propagate the plant. For these purposes, they are cut off together with a piece of small bark and placed in a sand-peat mixture for rooting.
The cut on the barrel is disinfected with activated or charcoal. For thirty days, the roots appear.
False palm pruning process
To achieve the trunk of yucca more than seven centimeters in diameterIt is clipped. This is done in order to form a crown on the palm of the correct shape. We must not forget that after the procedure is performed, the growth of the plant stops.
Need to cut as high as possible from the base of the trunk. The plant must be well watered every three to four days. The cut part is placed in a wet substrate for rooting. Thanks to the pruning method, the owner forms the height of the plant he needs.
How to plant and grow?
Yucca prefers neutral acid soiltherefore, the plant should be planted in a specially prepared soil mixture consisting of leaf, sod land, peat and humus, taken in a ratio of 2: 2: 1: 1. You can buy ready-made substrate in the flower shop. For these purposes, ideal soil for cacti, palm plants or draceni.
The pot must be chosen high, as for good development the plant needs drainage. The height of the layer should be at least three to five centimeters. In this quality, broken brick, fine crushed stone or other materials are useful. A layer of soil is poured on top of the drainage, then a yucca is placed and sprinkled on top of the substrate.
More than three centimeters bury the plant is not worth it. The substrate is carefully watered, after which the plant pot is put in its permanent place.
Planting yucca in open ground
How and when to plant yucca on the street? Planting and care in the open field in the garden.
There are a large number of species of yucca. In addition to plants grown at home, there are also garden varieties that grow well in open ground.
Plus, such a palm tree blooms very beautifully, for which it is valued by growers. The necessary conditions for planting yucca are as follows:
- the place for the plant should be sunny and hot;
- the optimum temperature during planting should be 18 degrees of heat during the daytime and not less than seven at night;
- The plant needs nutrient soil. If there is poor soil on the site, then you need to dig a hole, the depth and width of which should be at least 50 centimeters and pour the prepared mixture into it, including garden soil, humus, sand and peat in equal parts.
When to plant?
The best time to plant a yucca is Springwhen the threat of night frost has completely passed and the temperature does not fall below seven degrees. Before the onset of the weather, the yucca can grow on the window or in the greenhouse. Planted immediately is not recommended, as the false palm need gradual hardening.
To do this, they begin to make it to the open air every day, gradually increasing the time they spend outside. The size of the landing hole should be twice as large from the root system.
How to transplant?
What is the best and when can you repot a room yucca? At home, yucca is transplanted no more often than once every two years.
If a plant has several trunks, then they can be seated. This is done like this.:
- the trunk is divided into separate parts along with the root system;
- slices sprinkled with crushed activated charcoal or charcoal;
- Each sprout is planted in a separate container and moistened.
For the transplanting of a false palm, a larger flower pot is selected. It must be strong. Best used ceramic products. Ideally, if the old container fits easily into the selected one. Any time of year is suitable for home transplantation, but most often this is done with the onset of spring.
Yucca must be prepared for the procedure. The third part of the leaves is cut, the palm tree is removed from the pot, the root system is immersed in room water for at least one hour. When transplanting, care must be taken not to break the roots, otherwise they will begin to rot.
False palm is very responds well to fertilizing with various types of fertilizers.
With proper care and compliance with the rules of planting, you can grow a beautiful plant that will look great in the home interior.
Video about yucca: care and reproduction of yucca, how to plant yucca at home, how to root.
This video describes how yucca breeds at home by cuttings.
Video about how to grow yucca, how to breed.
