Yucca room: rules for home care

Yucca is called the "palm lily." The flower belongs to the Agave family, there are about 40 of its species. Outwardly resembles a small palm tree.

The distribution area of ​​yucca is the desert of North America, several varieties are in the Center of this continent, as well as on the islands of the Caribbean and in Asia. Prefers stony soils and areas with plenty of sunlight. Garden plants are up to 10 meters high and look like a tree. At home, the yucca does not grow above 1 m.

Description

It has a thickened trunk, and therefore refers to tree plants. The leaves are quite stiff, swab-like, there are green with a bluish tint, there are thorns at the ends. The edges are wavy, jagged or with villi. Leaves are collected in a bunch at the top of the plant, are on branched trunks or grow from a rosette directly from the soil.

The crown includes one or more outlets. Palm flowers are white, resemble bells, up to 9 cm long. The inflorescence is an ordinary panicle.

Other colors are found in nature: cream, yellow, canary, gently green. On one palm tree count up to 200 flowers. Yucca extremely rarely blooms at home. The fruit of the flower is a juicy box, there are also edible varieties.

Types of Room Yucca

Yucca can be planted with bonsai or fuchsia. It also stands out perfectly with ficus, spathiphyllus.

Home Care

When growing room yucca, you need to pay attention to the following conditions:

Pruning

It contributes to the growth of new shoots, from which beautiful and lush bushes are formed. The formation is carried out in March, the upper part is cut off by secateurs, stepping back from the 60 cm outlet. Do not break the trunk, this will lead to a protracted disease of the bush or its death, you need to carefully and abruptly cut the stem.

A fresh slice should be sprinkled with charcoal or paraffin, so the yucca will retain moisture inside. After the shrub is placed in a dark place, after 3 months new shoots will appear at the place of the cut.

You can cut only a plant with a trunk diameter of more than 5 centimeters. Otherwise, you can not cut the stem.

Pot selection, soil, transplant

The first transplant should be carried out immediately after the purchase of the plant, and the next in March. While the young bush it can be replanted annually, after every 3 years.

It is desirable to plant directly with a lump of earth on the roots. Be sure to pour drainage on the bottom of the pot so that the roots do not rot after watering.

Step Transplant:

1. Purchase a clay pot with holes in the bottom for draining water 2 sizes larger than the previous one.
2. Pour drainage 4 cm high at the bottom, and sprinkle with soil on top.
3. With a lump of earth on the roots, transfer the plant to a new pot.
4. Cover the remaining empty spaces with earth and gently tamp.

In advance, you need to remove black, dry roots, and sprinkle the slices with activated charcoal. After transplanting, the yucca does not grow for a month and a half.

A slightly acidic soil is suitable for the plant. It should conduct water and nutrients well to the roots. It is better to add river sand or humus to the earthen mixture. There are ready-made compositions for palm trees, cacti and dracaena in which you can plant a yucca.

Breeding

Gardeners propagate yucca in four ways.

Seeds

The main thing here is to choose the right seeds for planting. At home, they can be collected only after pollination. Stages:

• Squeeze the seeds with sandpaper to damage the hard shell, so they sprout faster.
• Soak them in water for a day.
• Plant in a small container with a special earthen mixture.
• Cover with foil and put in a warm place in a house with good lighting, constantly moisten the soil.
• Wipe the film every day to remove condensation.
• As soon as shoots and leaves appear (after about a month), plant the plants in different containers, feed them with fertilizers on the 10th day.
• After sprouting 5 leaves, the plant is considered an adult.

Cuttings

• From an adult plant, make a smooth cut of the cuttings.
• Dry and treat with a growth agent.
• For the soil, use a mixture of peat and river sand.
• Transfer the cuttings to the ground and drown in the soil by 3-4 cm.
• It is good to water the soil, the process itself is sprayed daily.

Parts of the trunk

So you can propagate an adult plant, but only in the spring. Process:

• Carefully cut the top of the bush and dry.
• Place the scrap in the water until it gives the first roots, after - in the ground.
• As soon as the buds give young shoots, plant them.

Adnexal roots

Used for stemless yucca species. In summer or spring, root offspring are cut with a knife, and seedlings are transplanted into a pot of wet sand.

Mistakes in leaving

Diseases, pests

Mr. Summer resident recommends: yucca - the tree of life

The benefit of such a palm is in purifying the air and reducing noise in the room. Leaves have medicinal properties, they contain selenium, antioxidants, zinc, chlorophyll and steroidal sapogenins. The rhizome includes magnesium, iron and calcium.

Yucca is used for cosmetic purposes, as well as in traditional medicine. Shampoos are prepared from it, she is treated with prostate, diabetes mellitus, and stomach ulcer. In addition, it lowers blood cholesterol and is used in cooking (it resembles beans in taste).

The plant has practically no contraindications for use, but it is still better to consult a doctor. With kidney stones, pregnancy and lactation, it is forbidden to use yucca. In pharmaceuticals, it is not used, only in traditional medicine recipes.

There is evidence that yucca in the house strengthens family ties.

Yucca's harm is that she:

• Pure in the stomach causes digestive upset.
• It provokes an allergy, in rare cases tremor.
• It has spikes and children can get hurt easily.
• It belongs to vampire plants, do not put a pot with it in the bedroom and children's room.

The Indians called yucca "the tree of life."

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