Many amateur gardeners confuse yucca with dracaena, fooling themselves with spiky dark green long leaves. Indeed, these plants have a similar appearance, although they are not related. Yucca is from America, but has been decorating garden plots and city beds for quite some time. She is unpretentious, so caring for her is a pleasure. There are two types of yucca: indoor and garden. The former grow only at home, and the latter can survive minor frosts, so they grow on the street.
Watering, fertilizing with fertilizers is perhaps all that a yucca requires. Transplantation is carried out no more often than every two years. Palm trees that grow on the street have dense, leathery leaves that hold moisture well, in early summer they bloom with beautiful snow-white flowers, intoxicating with their unique sweet aroma. They can tolerate both frost and heat, but those who are susceptible to lower temperatures are indoor plants. Aloe and elephant yucca are just such spoiled flowers, so they can be grown only at
room temperature.Transplanting a plant is not so difficult, but still this procedure requires some responsibility and caution. The fact is that the flower has a very sensitive root system, this can cause a disease of a plant like yucca. Transplantation can be carried out only in the spring before the flower begins to grow actively. In order not to damage the root system, it can be transplanted into another pot directly with an earthen lump. For young plants, it is worth picking up large containers that allow the roots to grow. Adult plants do not require large pots, so the volume can be increased by only a couple of centimeters.
If it is clearly visible that the yucca is sick, the transplant is carried out only after a careful examination of the roots of the plant. The soil is carefully removed and if there are dry or rotten roots, they are immediately trimmed. In order not to infect the root system, the trimmed areas are sprinkled with crushed charcoal.
To prevent water from stagnating in the pot, a small layer of expanded clay should be laid at the bottom, then pour soil, put a yucca and cover it with earth, a little tamping. A mixture of turf and leafy land, as well as sand - this is the substrate that the yucca palm loves . Caring for it will not give any result if the plant is not provided with nutritious and light soil.
The first week after the transplant, the yucca needs peace, it is better to put it at partial shade, spray it from time to time. At a temperature of 20 - 25 ° C and irrigation with soft, defended water, the plant will soon start the first young leaves. Complex fertilizers are what Yucca responds very well to. The transplant is very well tolerated by the flower. If the plant is already an adult, then it does not make sense to constantly transplant it; it can grow for 20 years in the same pot and at the same time feel great.
Garden yuccas are best transplanted in the spring in the morning or evening, when the sun cannot damage it with its scorching rays. To do this, dig a large hole, which is well filled with water. Then a plant is placed there, which is sprinkled with earth to the root neck. In order for the yucca to take root in a new place faster, it should be watered. Caring for a flower is completely uncomplicated, but it will delight with its beauty for more than one decade.