Yuccas gone wild!!!

I like to have plants at our house and store.
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I do okay with growing plants, but when it comes to yuccas, they go crazy on me. This one started out as a small eighteen inch plant. Now it's a monster in our front yard.
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There is on in the next section that also started as an 18" single stalk plant.
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Now it is a multi-branched behemoth. It dwarfs the first one I showed.
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Finally, I have one at our store. It was a small 12" branch that had broken off a 7' yucca during transport. That was about ten years ago.
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When we first brought it to the store, it was three branches growing straight up. After being in the store a while, the branches started to drop to the sides. At first I thought it was drooping from lack of light or too much water. So I put it closer to the window and watered it only when it was really dry. The branches still kept dropping, but I noticed that new branches started growing out of the center. Those branches are now about 18". They started growing last fall. They are growing pretty fast and I am considering cutting the side branches to make new plants. I'm not sure what to do with the two yuccas outside.

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tangmo (72) · 7 years ago

Amazing plant! I love its white flowers, they have strange shape! ;)

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nikv (71) · 7 years ago

Looking good! I have a monster Yucca in my Yard. It grows on top of a rock formation and I never water it and it really thrives on the neglect. They are indestructible. Do you neglect or do you pamper yours?

roswellrockman (59) · 7 years ago (edited)

The ones in our yard, I neglect, aside from the watering they get from the sprinklers. The one at our store gets a little more attention because I see it more often. It's a second generation of a plant that I had nearly twenty years ago. We gave the first generation away. A piece broke off while moving it so I kept it and planted it in soil. I wait for the soil to get dry before watering and I trim the dead leaves off when I get a chance.