How to Prune and Plant Yuccas

g'day welcome to I cultivate my name's Steve and today we're going to be looking at pruning yuccas and then potting up the leftover cuttings are you looking for a plant that is contemporary and easy to grow in both pots and in the ground well if you are well then yuccas are for you when well looked-after yuccas can form nice clumps as you can see in this particular example however if let go a little bit they can become quite tall and these particular examples are now ready for a prune and that's what we're going to look at now in order to prune what we would normally do is we would identify somewhere around the halfway point it should be about here somewhere and we would cut it at about that point what we would do before that though is strip back to these leaves down beyond that halfway point so in order to to strip these leaves back it is literally just a matter of simply grabbing onto the leaf and pulling downwards like so with the lead strict select the halfway point and cut with the top of this yucca removed it will now be stimulated to grow shoots from the side and there are a few little growing buds that we can see along the length of this particular stem so I would expect to see over the coming months new shoots start to develop out from the side of this yucca and it will produce a wonderful display so now we're going to pot each of these and strike them once they have developed the root system we can then keep them in the pot or we can in fact put them into the ground now either way what we've produced is a wonderful plant which would cost you quite a few dollars if you were to go and buy these in a nursery so let's now go and have a look at how to put these up okay so we've now pruned out your keys the result of which has left me with a number of off cuts that I can now use to strike in pots and produce new plants the process has got no real science associated with it it is really very simple it's just a matter of selecting a suitable size pot adding a little bit of potting mix select your yucca cutting place it in the center of the pot and then simply backfill with potting mix so the last part of this process is to just give them a light water if not too much water just in light water one important thing with regards to potting these up is to just be mindful of the size of the pot relative to the size of the plant it's obviously not a small cutting and therefore we need to be sure that the base we give it is enough to ensure that it is in fact stable and won't easily tip over so just be mindful of the size of the pot these pots that I've selected here would be the absolute smallest that I would use for a plant of this size now I can expect that these plants will start taking root in these pots within a matter of a few weeks and after only a few months so I can probably even take them from these pots and Transplant them elsewhere into the garden if I wish however I'm not going to do that with these I'll in fact going to share these with friends so a job that started by pruning our yuccas has not only resulted in well-maintained plants but it has also produced three new plants that if I was to buy at a nursery would cost upwards of $50 each in these pots I hope you've enjoyed this video can I please ask you to go down to the thumbs up and give us a thumbs up subscribe to this channel and go to our website I cultivate dotnet and become a member of the community thanks for watching [Music]