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How does one root yucca offshoots?
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. Eric Please remove the UNSPAM when replying |
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How does one root yucca offshoots?
"Cire" wrote in message ... 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 |
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How does one root yucca offshoots?
David Thanks for your reply. I will give it another go but, of course, this is what I did before, without sucess! Perhaps it was the time of year that was wrong. Thanks again. Eric |
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How does one root yucca offshoots?
David Thanks for your reply. I will give it another go but, of course, this is what I did before, without sucess! Perhaps it was the time of year that was wrong. Thanks again. Eric |
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