Yucca Pruning and Propagation Update

good day welcome to I cultivate my name's Steve about 6 months ago we looked at how you prune and then repot up the cuttings of some yaka plants today we're going to come back and have a look at how those prunings and repotting have gone so here we are about 6 months later and you can see just below this point here where we pruned that we've got quite a lot of growth happening and now even on this particular which was quite a large one to prune you can see that we've got quite a lot of new growth coming out from where those buds previously were all we now need to do is to select those that we want to keep in order to develop the shape of growth that we desire now let's go and have a look at those cuting that we took and see just how they've progressed in the pots in which they were placed now you remember we potted three cuttings I've given away one and here's the other two now incredibly this one actually flowed after we had potted it this flour is now well spent and so I'm simply going to remove it and you can see that we do still have this section here that is growing up out from beside where the flower was it will look very impressive in time come we also need to remember that when we take a cutting of this magnitude that it is a significant stress on the plant so there will be some dback of leaves it's not something to worry about but I have had some questions about this type of thing since the last video so when you see these leaves die back just simply remove [Music] them and you'll find that the plant will will really look great and benefit from this in time yakas are incredibly hearty plants and very easy to propagate as we are talking about during this video but so easy that you can see that with this particular piece of stem that frankly was just left lying on the ground for a few months we have got a new Bud growing out from this particular location the main thing that we have to be aware of if we are going to plant a section of stem in order to propagate um yakas is we need to be aware of which way is up and which way is down Roots will only develop from the bottom not from the top and if I was to place the top into the ground we would in fact have no success it would just die we have to plant it the right way around so we can see that after six months and only six months the root development that has occurred on this cutting is significant so much so that I actually can't leave it in this pot any longer and I need to either put it into the ground or I need to put it into a much larger pot so as you can see to take yucka cting and to then plant them into pots and have them strike successfully is really quite simple so if you have a mature yaka plant in your yard I'd encourage you to give it a good prune take the prunings pot them out and you'll produce lots of new yaka plants for your garden now I hope you've enjoyed this video can I ask you please to go down to the thumbs up and give us a thumbs up subscribe to this Channel and go to our website I cultivate Donnet and become a member of the community thanks for watching [Music]