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What are these?

5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago

I pulled these up near where our red yucca has lived for about five years now. Have never seen anything like them until now. Could they be yucca pups, and if so, should I stick em in a soil-filled container in hopes they'll grow?

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  • 5 years ago






  • 5 years ago

    Do they smell like green onions? They sure look like baby ones.

  • 5 years ago

    Yes, I think wild onion or false garlic (I get them mixed up!).

  • 5 years ago

    Onion grass?


  • 5 years ago

    They have no smell that I can detect.


    But dammit, while I was outside with my phone trying to figure them out, I dropped it and cracked the screen. Entirely my own stupid fault, but I'm still blaming them. Whatever they are.

    😲😖☹

  • 5 years ago

    Sure looks like onion grass. Definitely not worth cracking your phone for them! Sorry that happened.

  • 5 years ago

    Oh, no! Did that last week on my patio. Had my iPad and phone in arms, dropped both, cracks galore. 😫

  • 5 years ago

    I was hoping they were baby yuccas, but perhaps not. Strange little things!


    So sorry about your breakage, Jinx! That's a buzzkill for sure. 😩

  • 5 years ago

    They sure look like pups. I would pot them up and see how they do.

  • 5 years ago

    Interesting. I did go ahead and stick them in a pot, just for grins.

  • 5 years ago

    These are pics of red yucca seedlings.




  • 5 years ago

    Actually the tops don’t look like onion grass at all,. I am not familiar with yucca.

  • 5 years ago

    The mystery sprouts! I'll let y'all know what happens to the ones I potted up.

  • 5 years ago
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    Try it Mikey !

  • 5 years ago

    It just dawned on me that these sprouts were just about directly below the seed pods of the yucca. I'm guessing they could have spilled some seed and some germination took place. It's not easy to see in the picture I took, but the leaves are the same grayish green of the yucca, and have a coarse feel. So now I'm leaning more towards these being baby yuccas. Time will tell!

  • 5 years ago
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    And just FYI, here's the Texas red yucca. We see a lot of these around here!



    And speaking of pups, my Century Agave has a number of pups at its base that I would like to transplant... but I'm afraid of being speared to death in the process. Mine looks a lot like this:



  • 5 years ago

    I just planted some red yuccas at my dad‘s new property! He built a shopdominium on a beautiful wooded acre+. :)

    I’m having fun helping him landscape it ... he has some beautiful black soil out there, unlike my sticky caliche concrete (6 miles away!).

  • 5 years ago

    Oh, what fun! I'll bet it's looking great!


    I also envy anyone who doesn't have absolute crap for soil. Sticky caliche concrete pretty much sums up what we have too, except throw in actual concrete and other bits of masonry from the lazy arse construction crews that built this place and just let things get buried as they went. It's always an exercise in sweat and profanity just trying to dig a simple hole around here.

  • 5 years ago

    I have some yuccas here and they do seed pretty freely. I have a lot of new ones pop up.

  • 5 years ago

    Arkansas, do you let them grow or pull the sprouts? I wonder how long they take to grow to maturity.

  • 5 years ago

    Where I have them, they can just fill in. If you don't want that, then you'd want to pull them.

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