Yucca / yucca

Refers to the family of the lily. Fatherland is North America.

General description: Yucca is like a palm tree and dracene. This is a large evergreen plant with a tree-like trunk and large linear pointed leaves, collected in a rosette on its apex.

Yucca is a fairly unpretentious plant, grows slowly, grows to 1.5 m. The most common form of Yucca elephantipes (Yucca elephant) with thickened trunk and long leathery leaves with coarse edges. A mature yucca blossoms with snow-white, bell-blossom flowers.

Recommendations for the care of the plant Yucca:

Illumination : Needs bright light.

Irrigation regime : Abundant during the flowering period, outlandish in the period of inactivity. He does not like overflow, nor the drying out of the earth.

Humidity : Requires regular spraying and wiping of leaves with a damp soft cloth for hygienic purposes, but the yucca is resistant to the dryness of the atmosphere. For the summer it is better to place on a fresh atmosphere (in the park or on the balcony). Keep away from drafts.

Temperature regime : In summer, the temperature should be moderate, in the winter cool, 16-18 ° C, but not lower than 8 ° C.

Soil : Proper benign drainage is required. You can add small gravel or expanded clay.

Recommended soil mix: for young plants - 2 elements of a turf ground, 2 elements of leaf earth, 1 share humus and 2 elements of sand. For mature and old plants - 3 elements of a turf ground, 2 leaf elements, 2 elements of sand.

During the growth period, it needs fertilizing once every 2 weeks with liquid complex fertilizers ("Giant", "Rainbow" "Ideal", etc.)

Breeding : Rooting of the stem apex, daughter rosettes, stem pieces, seeds.

Transplantation : In the spring, 1 time in 2 years. He prefers an impressive tub.

Pests : It strikes with plaques (brown plaques appear on the leaves and stems, leaving sticky excretions), a spider mite (in a dry atmosphere, leaves and stems are braided with cobwebs).

The plant is allowed to help finish with a soap solution, warm washing and spraying with an actinic (1-2 ml per liter of water).

Yucca - Yucca

Yucca - yucca