Phil L wrote:
Ted wrote:
"PeterL" wrote in message
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Hello

I am sorry to trouble you but I cannot find an answer to this
online so am going to the experts.

I have a thriving Yucca Tree in my garden and I would love to take
cuttings
from it but do not know how to.

Any advice or links to relevant sites would be much appreciated.

PeterL
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we have 'taken' many babies from our Yucca............only its not
so much a cutting more a young tuba growth that appears around the
base of mother plant growing from her roots.

we dig as deep as possible and cut them from the root then pot them
up.

we have 4 youngsters growing at the moment ranging from 100mm to
300mm high.

the mother plant is about 1.7 metres high and comprises 4 or 5 thick
trunks.

she flowers once a year only this year they were rather small.

http://www.daj.fseltd.btinternet.co.uk/DSCN0002.JPG

pictured last year.


Mine;s exactly the same as that, but it's 2m high at the leaves, the
flowers go another metre higher (5 of them this year)...I 'tended' to
it last year and snapped off all the unwanted shoots from the bottom
and slung them on the compost, 3 weeks later they were still alive so
I potted a few up, these are now 2ft high and living in somone elses
garden, I did a few more last week and only leave about 2 inches of
brown at the base and they grow very easily.


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Many thanks I had often wondered how you took cuttings. Dont appear to have
any shoots at the bottom at the moment but I can wait.

Again many thanks

PeterL
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Jordanstown Schools http://jord.org.uk
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