"Cire" wrote in message
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Very reluctantly I had to cut down a magnificent, 5ft Yucca Gloriosa last
September because it eas just in the wrong place.

It soon put up eight nice young plants which I removed and put into
suitable compost. I realised that it was not the best time of the year to
do
such a thing but I didn't want to leave them until the spring, when they
would have grown too large. (They grow at an incredible rate.) None of
them
had any roots when I removed them so I tried to take as much of the
parent
plant's main stem as possible. They were over-wintered in the greenhouse.

With the exception of one, they are all looking very healthy but there is
still no sign of rooting on any of them. How they have managed to keep
alive
for so long, I don't understand.

Anyway, what I now need helpful advice about, is how to correctly deal
with
a further batch of babies from the same old rootstock. I now have another
five beautiful young plantlets, each about 8ins tall.

Can anyone please help me to get these rooted properly.

I rooted a Yucca offshoot by just taking the offshoot itself - no part of
the main stem - and putting it into potting compost.

It seemed to root O.K. and is now outside and about 4' tall with numerous
offshoots itself.

A while since I did it, but ISTR it just settled in and got on with it.

HTH
Dave R