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- Carving out the trunk - raising new shoots on the yucca palm?
- Yucca branch - scrape not necessary
- Shorten yucca and replenish it - That's how it works
- Tips
Through a crack in the trunk, the yucca palm can be stimulated to form shoots
Carving out the trunk - raising new shoots on the yucca palm?
If the yucca goes well, a small hardware store can turn into a high-ceiling monster - which threatens to become crooked and crooked due to its size. In addition, many yuccas do not branch, but only form a trunk with a single head. Many a horticulturist came up with the idea of cutting in the trunk and thus artificially inducing the plant to branch. The measure is controversial, because not always successful.
Yucca branch - scrape not necessary
In fact, you can succeed in scoring the stem: to stimulate the yucca to form new shoots, simply cut a two to three millimeters deep, one to two centimeters long cut into the trunk, preferably at a point just below the crown. However, you should be more successful with this method:
Incidentally, the planting is even more lush if you put the rooted former head in the same pot as the mother plant and thus pull two trunks. Of course, you should take a larger planter.
Shorten yucca and replenish it - That's how it works
To cut the yucca, it is best to use a long and sharp knife (with teeth, for example a bread knife) and / or a saw. So that it works really well with the rooting and renewing, you can follow these advices:
Tips
The quickest and easiest thing to do is to cut out a cut-off yucca in the spring - when it sprouts in nature anyway.