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[Jaws]

Quite an eery scene. I'd expect zombies to come walking out of the fog.

Ed

[MeeMaw]

Quite an eery scene. I'd expect zombies to come walking out of the fog.

Ed

Thanks! It was just really thick that day....

The weather has changed now (after Thanksgiving in Kansas). It was 20F when I got up and my rose bushes had frost on them.... so I got out my camera again.... 

[sawer]

Great shot mee maw

[MeeMaw]

Great shot mee maw

Thanks!!!!

[PGTips91]

In one photo I posted there was a large Yucca plant that someone asked about. I never did reply to that and now cannot find the question [think it may have been Jaws who asked]. However recently when I went past the plant on a walk I noticed that it is beginning to send up a huge flower stem. So I went back an took a 'before' shot and will trace the progress of this flower with later shots.

I could not measure the plant directly but took another shot standing beside the plant with the camera balanced on the fence. With my hand extended over my head it is about the height of the flower stem, which is about 7 feet high. The thickness of the stem would be six or eight inches in diameter. This is going to be one spectacular flower!

I've started an album at Picasaweb. YuccaPlant

Oh, and obviously I have cut and pasted into the original image of the Yucca plant, so my feet are obscured by plant-growth in this composite image.

Paul

[Note : I've edited the link and hope that it works now.It's hard to check the link when I am automatically logged in.]

PS : Looking through all my photos recently I discovered that I had taken some photos of this Yucca Plant shortly before I discovered the flower shoot starting. Here it is in its prime just before this event which will see the plant, which is over twenty years old, expire, leaving the space for its progeny.



Yucca Plant, taken in its prime, shortly before the flower developed, 11th November 2011.

Paul

[Jaws]

Hi Paul,

Indeed that was probably me who asked about the Yucca as we have 3 clumps of them growing on our property but they only get to about 4 feet tall with the flower stem. Your Yucca looks to be enormous in the thumbnail pic, but unfortunately the link goes to "Sorry, that page was not found."

This will be interesting when you trace the progress of this flower with later shots. Thanks for posting.

Ed

[sawer]

Great photo, keep us posted when it is in full bloom.
@ Ed We don't have a long enough growing season for ours to get that big. My do about the same as yours.

[PGTips91]

Hi Paul,

Indeed that was probably me who asked about the Yucca as we have 3 clumps of them growing on our property but they only get to about 4 feet tall with the flower stem. Your Yucca looks to be enormous in the thumbnail pic, but unfortunately the link goes to "Sorry, that page was not found."

This will be interesting when you trace the progress of this flower with later shots. Thanks for posting.

Ed

Hi Ed,

Yes, I have just found your comment and it is on the Panoramio web site itself, not on the forum here, so no wonder I could not find it with a search here.

Here's the original photo where you saw and commented on the Yucca Plant : http://www.panoramio.com/photo/37125441


The Yucca Plant is on the right, looking quite small in that view but, as you note, it is a very large specimen in fact. I think that it has grown quite a bit since that photo was taken, too.

I fixed the link to my Picasaweb album, in the first post on this thread, so that should be working now.

I am just as intrigued as you with this plant. I watched a similar plant last year but never got around to getting a shot of it, which I regret, but this one I will make sure of. It's going to be one fantastic flower! Next time I will take a ruler or something that will indicate the width of the flower shoot. It is very inaccessible but somehow I have to get a measurement.

Paul

PS I have now used the measurement tool in the GIMP to estimate the diameter of the flower shoot and it is between 6.75 and 7.18 inches!

[Jaws]

Holy moley, that plant is gigantic and the flower stem is absurdly huge! This will be fun if you do time lapse photos as the plant grows.

Careful with the tips of the leave though; I've been stabbed more than once on a Yucca. I'll try to find a picture of our Yucca plant, if I have one.

Looks like you're having a nice summer Paul, enjoy.

Ed

[PGTips91]

Holy moley, that plant is gigantic and the flower stem is absurdly huge! This will be fun if you do time lapse photos as the plant grows.

Careful with the tips of the leave though; I've been stabbed more than once on a Yucca. I'll try to find a picture of our Yucca plant, if I have one.

Looks like you're having a nice summer Paul, enjoy.

Ed

Yes, the flower stem is on the gigantic scale! I've seen these things elsewhere and they send up a huge flower several meters high and this specimen promises to be one of the highest and best. I've often thought I should make the effort to photograph one of these, when driving past, but then forget about it until the next time I am driving past! With this plant it is now higher in my awareness than heretofore so I should do better with remembering.

I've got a large specimen of bamboo growing on my section, the size of whose shoots is about 3 inches in diameter. I have measured those growing so many inches in one day that I reckon that you could almost see the growth with a little magnification!

I'm not going to be able to do time-lapse shots of the Yucca, though, as it is growing on the verge, in front of the property right next to the footpath and it is a good distance away from my place. I go past it most times when I go out for a short walk but that is not every day. What I think I will do is put it into my schedule in Google Calendar and try to take regular shots so that the progress can be measured in equal time-slots. And if I put some sort of mark on the footpath and take the shots from the identical spot then although I still don't have a tripod they could be aligned up in the GIMP to keep them showing just the progress of the flower. I'll go again tomorrow and reassess the situation and make plans accordingly.

Summer? It has been nice to have warm weather lately but it is being affected by La Niña conditions, with lots of cloud cover, rain and gales - not the best of holiday weather, especially for those who have been staying in tents! I'm just at home so am largely unaffected, just an annoying leak in the lounge roof!

What sort of weather have you been having in your neck of the woods?

[PGTips91]

Well I am almost too late to document the progress of this Yucca flower. I went to check it out today, which was my first opportunity, and found that it has totally changed.

The plant itself seems to be being expended in the growth of the flowering stem, which has gone from about 7 feet high to nearly 11 feet high and the flower are breaking out at the top. How much higher it will go I don't know. It has happened much faster than I expected and caught me on the hop.

Here's what it now looks like, in a composite picture to try and estimate the growth in height, and a current view by itself.



You can see the tip of the flower stem high above where it was a week ago. I had to realign these photos as best I could and then measured the pixels in the GIMP to estimate the new height.



This is how the plant now appears, with the flowering stem well on the way to its full height.

I'll try and keep track on this over the next few days to see what transpires!

Paul

[Jaws]

That is unbelievable Paul. You got to get a photo when it's in full bloom.

Been busy in my neck of the woods clearing about 6 in. (~15 cm) of snow.

Ed

[PGTips91]

Here's what it is going to look like! Was just browsing this site and saw the exact same plant with the same loss of leaf with the flower shoot. These ones are fully grown.

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[PGTips91]

Continuing with my observations of the Yucca Plant, here's what it looked like yesterday.



I estimate the height of the flower at over 15 feet at this point in its development, 12 days from the first time I saw and photographed it.

Paul

[Jaws]

Wow! Needless to say, that is one tall Yucca. In fact, bigger and longer than any Yucca plant in the States as far as I can tell. Nice find Paul.