Starting a Yucca gigantea (Yucca elephantipes) bonsai, December 2020
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- I am starting a Yucca bonsai from a Yucca gigantea ( Yucca elephantipes) specimen that was thrown away, on the side of the road, by its previous owner. It's a nice sized spineless Yucca plant which has the beginning of a nice tapered trunk base as all these, so called, Elephant's foot yuccas eventually develop .
For now I am focusing on the Yucca replanting: cleaning up its rots, potting it in well drained soil as well as tidying up its trunk and leaves. The soil will be kept on the dry side to avoid root rot. I will let it gain vigor to increase the chance of multiple branching after pruning. I will probably be applying the first trim in late spring or during early summer for starting it on its way to becoming more of a Yucca gigantea bonsai and less of a Yucca cane in a pot.
I recommend you watch the videos made by Nigel Saunders on his great Yucca bonsai forest. Here's the link to his playlist covering the development of his Yuccas: • Yucca Bonsai, June 2016
📃 Video outline:
00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - Inspecting the Yucca plant state
01:53 - Removing old soil
04:22 - Pruning Yucca roots
07:13 - The pot and Yucca soil mix
08:39 - Yucca repotting
13:19 - Removing soil air gaps
14:14 - Next steps for developing the Yucca tree
15:32 - Yucca trees in nature
19:28 - Cleaning Yucca trunk base
20:29 - Add rocks for plant stabilization
21:48 - Pruning aerial roots and dried leaf stems
24:08 - Yucca watering
25:10 - Pruning Yucca leaves
27:38 - A final look at the Yucca after reporting
📷 Images used in this video:
Elephant Feet by Linnaea Mallette, via PublicDomainPictures.net, licensed under CC0 Public Domain, www.publicdomainpictures.net/...
YUCCA ELEPHANTIPES, via Plantas Tropipalms, plantas.net/en/garden-trees/y...
Yucca Elephantipes (Spineless Yucca), via Gardenia.net, www.gardenia.net/plant/yucca-...
Yucca elephantipes, via Pinterest, / 557179785126287633
Palma yuca - Palmiche (Yucca gigantea. Sinónimos: Y. guatemalensis y antes Y. elephantipes) by
Alejandro Bayer Tamayo, via Flickr, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, www.flickr.com/photos/alejoba...
Photo of Botanicactus courtesy of Tripadvisor, www.tripadvisor.com/LocationP...
#yucca #yuccabonsai #yuccaelephantipes
That's a nice root rake you have! Really good work on the tree and a super video. I really like your vision for the tree also!
Thanks! The root rake is just something I improvised from construction grade steel wire. I'm glad you like it.
I try to do my best when working on a tree but I still have a lot to learn both on bonsai and video making. Seing what it means to film yourself working on a tree made me appreciate even more the efforts you put into your channel especially this past week. Seing one new Nigel Saunders video each day was a great treet!
I love the idea for your channel! Welcome to RUclips!
Thank you for the welcome. It means a lot that you like the channel idea since you inspired it. :) Before seing some of your more unusual bonsais I never even thought of trainig anything other than the usual conifers and small-leaved broadleaf trees into a Bonsai. So thanks for inspiring me and I hope that my videos will inspire others to start their bonsai journey.
Great start to your channel, Stefan! Very educational from the start. And what a fantastic find! The nebari looks so old already. I hope there are plans for “next step” video in this trees development.
Oh, and WOW have your video producing skills come a long ways! You are quite the student, my friend, always learning and growing.
Thanks Bald Yetti! It's been a year (and a few days) since I posted that video. The yucca has grown a lot and it looks so nice that my wife likes it as a houseplant :). So the "next step", which will involve a chop somewhere lower on the main trunk, will probably be postponed a bit.
Looking back, it really looks like I learned a lot this year :) And, as you say, I'm still learning with every new tree and every new video...
It is indeed a nice bonsai tutorial, i learned a lot from it. Take care my dear friend.
I am glad the video was usefull for you. Stay safe!
@@OddBonsai thanks dear friend. Take care.
Very cool species. Looking forward to future videos.
Thanks! This Yucca just started to sprout new branches. The next update will probably be when it gains some new growth+vigour so that I can cut back the trunk to a more manageable height.
Good video give an update pls
Thanks. The yucca is alive and doing very well. I haven't done anything else with it since I made the video. I like the ay it looks now so much that I'm not goin to prune it yet. When I decide to prune it I'm going to make a video.
yucca gigantea 👍👍👍
salam bonsai creation 🙏🙏🙏
🙏 Salam teman! I'm glad you like my Yucca.
Nice Channel, did the tree make it?
Thank you! Yes, this yucca recovered and is growing very well. I decided not prune it back this summer as I initially said in the video so maybe next year I will do the pruning.
@@OddBonsai okay i dident hear that in the video.
its funny Because I just found one myself i Need to repot it. its huge
That's great! These are the best finds. One tip: It doesn't need much water, especially if it has no leaves. Good luck with your new yucca!
The sound
Yes, the quality is bad. It was my first video. Still learning...