Yucca is a beautiful and very unusual evergreen from the family of Agavovs. It is much like a palm tree, but it has nothing to do with palm trees. Therefore, yucca is sometimes called a "false palm tree".
Yucca can be either a garden or a room. For the house most often get an elephant or aloeleous varieties of a yucca flower. If you are going to grow this plant at home, be prepared for the fact that the yucca grows large, up to 2-3 m in height. A single plant can decorate a spacious living room or hall, often yucca is combined with other plants.
Features of yucca care
Yucca is considered an unpretentious flower. The main thing in caring for her is to provide good coverage, because in nature this plant lives in deserts and semi-deserts. When choosing a room for an indoor yucca flower, it's best to stop on the south or west window.
The temperature of the flower content ranges from +20 to + 25 ° C (+ 10 ° C during the rest period). He does not like yucca drafts and hypothermia, as well as a sharp drop in temperature, at which he may die.
Watering is also important when caring for yucca. Its main rules are as follows:
- abundant watering should be in the period of active vegetation, that is, from spring to early autumn;
- in the cold season, limit watering to minimum levels;
- also the amount of water consumed by the flower and the frequency of watering should depend on the temperature in the room (in a warm room it should be watered more often, in the cold room - less often);
- a signal that the yucca needs watering is the well-dried top layer of soil in the pot;
- this plant is always better to dry than pour;
- Do not pour water into the rosette of yucca leaves.
As for feeding, they are necessary for the plant in spring and summer. It is recommended to apply fertilizers every 2-3 weeks - it can be mullein, horse manure, leaf humus. Allowed and foliar fertilizing with mineral fertilizers in the form of spraying the underside of the leaves.
Transplant the plant as it grows into a larger pot, do it better in the spring or in the summer. Yucca is demanding for drainage of the soil - the role of drainage can be performed with expanded clay, broken brick, and fine gravel. In soil mixture for indoor flowers it is desirable to add coarse-grained sand. Transplant yucca follows the method of transshipment with maximum preservation of the earth coma around the roots. The only exception is the situation when the roots of the yucca began to rot, then they should be removed and the earth in the pot completely replaced.
When the yucca blooms, you can admire her beautiful
How to breed a yucca flower?
They propagate yucca more often in a vegetative way. Root can be either apical cuttings, or so-called offspring. It is also permissible to root parts of the trunk with axillary "sleeping" kidneys. Separate the part of the plant chosen for reproduction, sprinkle the cut with crushed activated carbon and sprout in moist sand until roots form. This takes about 2 months. The temperature should be maintained above 20 ° C, and the humidity should be increased by daily spraying.
After the stem has started its roots, it can be placed in a small pot with a ready-made substrate, and then transplanted as it grows.