Yuccas or palm lilies are a genus of plants from the asparagus family. There are a number of different species, of which the two best known are probably the Yucca Filamentosa, also known as the garden Yucca, and the Yucca elephantipes, which is mainly cultivated as a houseplant. Both types are considered to be quite easy to care for and can be multiplied very easily.
The propagation of the yucca palm is very easy
Propagation of Yucca elephantipes by cutting
Yucca elephantipes is very prolific and reproduces reliably from various plant parts that have been cut off. Whether you split the stem or take cuttings, they will most likely take root quickly. The easiest way to propagate is if you divide the plant that has become too large, for example, by cutting the trunk into pieces. Even broken plants can often be saved in this way. The best time for rooting the individual plant pieces is spring or early summer - at this time the plant is particularly well prepared to grow. You can proceed as follows when propagating:
- The trunks of very tall yuccas can be divided several times.
- For example, you can subdivide the crest, the middle part of the trunk, and the base of the trunk.
- The - usually leafless - base of the stem simply remains in the plant pot or is transplanted into fresh substrate.
- Put the tuft and middle part in separate pots, preferably in a mixture of potting soil and sand.
- Place the pots in a light and warm spot
- and keep the substrate slightly moist.
- Cuttings with a lot of leaves should be thinned out a bit, as the plants lose too much water through evaporation
- and because the roots are still missing, they cannot absorb fresh ones.
- In this case, it also helps to spray the parts to be rooted more frequently instead.
If the leaves turn yellow and dry and/or parts of the trunk become soft, remove these parts and try rooting again.
Propagation of Yucca Filamentosa
The thready palm lily or garden yucca can also be propagated very easily. In particular, the reproduction by division and the planting of the offshoots is promising. Some gardeners have also been able to propagate the plant by sowing seeds they have collected themselves.
Share garden yucca
Yucca Filamentosa can become very wide, which is why it is wonderful to divide specimens that have become too large. To do this, simply dig out the plant carefully using a digging fork and divide into the desired number of plants. Make sure that the delicate roots are damaged as little as possible.
Obtain and plant offshoots
Practically, the garden yucca forms numerous offshoots that only have to be separated from the mother plant, dug up and planted separately.
Caring for young garden yucca properly
Older garden yuccas are hardy down to minus 15 °C and can therefore easily be left outside in milder winters. However, young specimens and Yucca Filamentosa cultivated in pots should initially hibernate in a cool, but frost-free and bright place. The plants should be hardened off slowly so that after a few years they can eventually be planted out in the garden.
tips
Sometimes you have to be quite patient until the first shoots appear on the cut trunk of a Yucca elephantipes.