How do I grow the Yucca elephant?
Yucca Elephantipes, also known as Yucca Guatamalensis or The Secret Yucca , comes from Southeast Mexico and Guatamala. The plant has rigid, green leaves similar to the blade that grow from the central axis, and depending on the climate can be used as a house plant or in outdoor landscaping. This Yucca type can grow to 30 ft (9.14 m) high. He likes bright light, but can do well with smaller light if it is properly connected. For example, they are widely used as landscape plants in the southern Florida. When outdoors, they should not be too connected and need a good drainage. The plant is very tolerant and works well near the deck or terraces, in the middle strips or as planting a buffer. When they are outside, Yucca Elephantipes can tolerate salty ground and grow well in acid or alkaline soil.E. Usually, when Yucca style is grown for this purpose, it is grown in pots between ten and 17 inches (25.4 cm - 43.2 cm) wide. InsideIt grows from three to eight feet (0.91 m to 2.44 m) high.
Yucca elephant, if used inside, should not be grown further than three to five feet (0.91 m to 1.52 m) out of the window. It prefers southern exhibitions, but will be well with eastern or western exposure if it gets enough light. It should be connected when the soil begins to feel dry, at an approximate depth of one inch (2.54 cm) or approximately every seven to ten days.
It is important that the complicated yucca contained container is well drained. This can be achieved by placing pebbles in the lower few centimeters of pots, which should also have drainage openings. The sign that Yucca gets too much water when the leaf of the end domes, with a yellow display in the healthy part of the leaf. Severe excessive watering can result in cane collapse on the base of the plant. Another way to ensure good drainage is the use of watering soil that welldeletes.
Yucca Elepantipes is relatively without pests when grown inside. Spiders do not attack him, even if it can be a susceptible scale or mealybugs. Usually, it can be discouraged using neem oils or Someapa Water.