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Posted: Jul/12/2008 8:16 PM PST
Hey everyone... I was doing some reading on Yucca plants (I have 6) and I learned that it’s easy to grow more with my clippings. But I had a question that I could not find the answer to. Here it is... If I cut the bottom leaves off will it start to grow tree like...with a trunk? I've seen pictures of some that look like that, but I don’t know how to make mine do that. If anyone knows... I think mine is a Yucca pallida. It grows a long stem with White flowers in the middle. Thanks! |
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Posted: Jul/18/2008 8:26 PM PST
I have several yuccas like you described but I have never tried what you're wanting to do. Why don't you try one and see. I don't think it would hurt it if it didn't work. I don't think you can kill them very easily.  A few of mine were looking a little ragged where I had mowed around them and I cut them off with a chainsaw, even with the ground. They came back bigger and better. 
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Posted: Jul/19/2008 5:59 PM PST
Yeah, you can kill a yucca about as easily as you can drown a fish. |
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Posted: Jul/20/2008 6:14 AM PST
Can't kill a yucca??? I know a trick that works for me! Love 'em. Last year in early spring, I went to a rummage sale. The lady had two large baskets full of yuccas. One basket was of larger ones, the other of smaller ones (6-8 inches high). The roots were being soaked in damp sand and she said they were dug up the day before. Well I bought 10 of the smaller ones and she gave me two extras. I planted them that day and all appeared healthy. By fall, I had just one left. Come spring zero. Other yuccas I have had, some for 3 years all have failed to flower. After asking a question on this web site, I found I may be loving them too much by watering and giving them plant food, so I have stopped that. I stopped by the same sale this spring and the kind lady after hearing my story gave me free replacements. So nice of she. She also showed me her yucca patch (large) and ask what I did and she could not id what my problem is or was. BTW I have also killed fish in water but that is another story. |
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Posted: Jul/20/2008 6:25 AM PST
Sorry, got so carried away I forgot what I wanted to say about your question. From what I know I think a yucca can include a tree, shrub(?) or a perennal depending on which species you have. If you have a perennal cutting the leaves off it will not make it grown into a tree, only make it grow new leaves. Then again if I were an expert I wouldn't be killing all of mine! |
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Posted: Jul/28/2008 8:31 AM PST
I have yucca plants that I keep pruned like a tree. As for planting or separating them. I cure them (lay them in the site where you are going to plant them. Root uncovered. Just like planting a cactus. For a week or so). I have pic on my site you can see. |
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