YUCCAYUCCA : Yucca hybrid update for the 2009 pollinations

Yucca hybrid update for the 2009 pollinations

Posted by Benny M. Jensen on July 29, 2009, 3:03 pm

Hello all Agavaceae friends.

I am still working as a "Yucca-moth", as all our Yuccas are in bloom (2 - 3 have already finished).

So far I have small fruit or fruits growing of the following:

Yucca arkansana (wide leafed form) x 'Karlsruhensis type 2'. 2 fruits
Yucca 'Bright Edge' x (reverschonii x thompsoniana). (Pollen from Tim Behan].1 young fruit, I hope that it stays on the plant.
Yucca "Jensen hybrid" (filamentosa x glauca) x (filamentosa x glauca). Pollinated with it's own pollen (with my help). 5 fruits
Yucca "Jensen hybrid" (filamentosa x glauca) x flaccida. 1 fruit.
Yucca "Jensen hybrid" (filamentosa x glauca) x 'Karlsruhensis type 2'. 5 fruits.
Yucca 'Karlsruhensis type 2' x "Jensen hybrid" (filamentosa x glauca). 2 fruits
Yucca 'Karlsruhensis type 2' x (arkansana ssp. freemanii). (Pollen from Tim Behan]. 2 fruits
Yucca 'Karlsruhensis type 2' x "Behan Filata #2" (Pollen from Tim Behan]. 1 fruit.
Yucca 'Karlsruhensis type 2' x Yucca 'Karlsruhensis type 2'. (Pollinated with it's own pollen (with my help) 2 fruits
Yucca 'Karlsruhensis type 2' x (reverschonii x thompsoniana). (Pollen from Tim Behan].1 young fruit, I hope that it stays on the plant.
Yucca sp. "Hæstrupvej" [gloriosa f. robusta?] x "Jensen hybrid" (filamentosa x glauca). 4 fruits.
Yucca sp. "Hæstrupvej" [gloriosa f. robusta?] x filamentosa garden form. 1 fruit.
Yucca sp. "Hæstrupvej" [gloriosa f. robusta?] x arkansana (wide leafed form). 2 fruits.
Yucca sp. "Hæstrupvej" [gloriosa f. robusta?] x (reverschonii x thompsoniana). (Pollen from Tim Behan].1 young fruit, I hope that it stays on the plant.
Yucca sp. "Hæstrupvej" [gloriosa f. robusta?] x sp. "Hæstrupvej" [gloriosa f. robusta?].Pollinated with it's own pollen (with my help). 3 fruits.
Yucca sp. "Hæstrupvej" [gloriosa f. robusta?] x "Behan Filata #2" (Pollen from Tim Behan]. 2 fruits

There will be more, am I sure of, I will have more news within a few days.

A lot of quite big fruits on the hybrid Yucca (filamentosa x glauca), did fall of, I have no idea why, maybe it is too cold and wet right now, as it's only between 15C - 19C day and night with many rain showers, or it might be insect bites, that makes them abort?

I have collected a lot of different pollen, so it's ready for the Yucca rupicola, which started bloom yesterday. I did pollinated the first four flowers with pollen from Yucca 'Karlsruhensis type 2' and Yucca (filamentosa x glauca), two of each. I will be pollinating each and every flower, which open on it :-D The flowers of the Yucca rupicola has a very long style, so I hope I can push the pollen far enough into it, I use a blunt spine from a Maihuenia patagonica for the process.

I will keep you informed as the fruits grow bigger and there might be more different.

Within a few days I will receive pollen from Yucca thompsoniana from a friend in Germany, and I have mailed pollen from 11 different to him today, so he will have something to keep him busy with, while his plant is blooming.

Is there any other, which have been lucky in making new hybrids this year?

Kind regards

Benny M. Jensen
Northern Denmark

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