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On Feb 12, 11:12*am, Chourreau
wrote:
Hi,

I bought my first plant in January 2011. Dracaena Massangeana or Corn
plant.
I would like to know a few things about how to maintain it and about how
it "works".

When I fist bought it, it looked like this :

'DRACAENA MASSANGEANA Potted plant - IKEA' (http://tinyurl.com/74ysbav)

and now it looks like this. (see picture attached)

- So the smallest trunk of the three had yellow leaves when I came back
from holidays and I cut the two sprouts that you can see on the picture.
Is this trunk completely dead or will it grow again? If yes, will it be
on the sprouts I cut or somewhere else on the trunk?

- The plant is getting bigger and bigger..Am I supposed to remove the
"older" lowering leaves and only keep the new upper ones on a sprout? If
yes, what's the best way to remove the leaves?

- I've never repoted a plant (never in my whole life actually) and the
pot seems a little bit low and narrow for this plant. Do you think I
should repot it into a bigger one? If so, how do you do it and what
compost are you supposed to use?

- I would like to grow a new plant from this one. How am I supposed to
do it? I've heard that you've got to cut a sprout (for example the big
ones on the picture) and replant it in a new pot. If that is true, how
can the sprout becomes a large trunk like the one it has now??
If yes, where are you supposed to cut the sprout? How many centimeters
from the trunk?

Well, that's all. I hope you will be able to enlighten me on this
mysterious plant as I cannot find many informations on internet and I
want it to be healthy!

Thank you very much

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