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DesertZone · 2010-10-30T01:43:28Z

Last year I posted a couple of pics of j-trees that were planted about seven miles away from my house. The person that planted them moved out and left the yuccas. They made it through the winter and the summer just fine. My wife stopped by there shortly after the new people moved in to see if they wanted the j-trees and they said they wanted to keep them. Well I drove by there a couple of weeks ago and they have been removed. I looked but did not see them on the property, so I thought maybe they replanted them somewhere else. But then the other night I drove by there again and seen that they have been tosed into a branch pile. I stopped and knocked on the door but no one answered, so I left a note and $20 and took the j-tree out of the branch pile. What I found was such a shame it made me sick. They cut it down with a chain saw, no way can it grow any roots now. :cry: I took it home stuck it in the ground for decoration. What a waste. :x

Aaron, this sentence jumped out at me:

I find Aloifolia and most yuccas root very easily from old stems if allowed to dry first.

from here:
http://www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=5851&start=0

Propagating from stem cuttings:
http://www.finegardening.com/how-to/qa/propagating-yucca.aspx

This is good, but fairly well known in our group.
http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/Foliage/folnotes/yucca.htm

The main issue now is has the cut stem been in the "callousing" stage too long, i.e. is it beyond rooting timeframe.
But it's worth a shot with such a specimen.

Barb

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

Posted : 10/12/2010 9:15 pm