Beginner Gardening: Yucca to tall, 2 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
A bit sideways too!

Diana is right, just prune the top off and re-root it and any sections you want to do as well but remember the orientation of any bare stems (bottom must go in the soil and the top stays pointed up). I did this to my yucca this summer - cut off the tallest stem (about 8 feet tall). I cut off maybe 5 feet of it and cut that in half. I put the two cut sections between pine bales practically the entire summer (to root and not rot). I finally took them out of the pine bales and saw roots and put those two sections in a pot of Nature's Helper (shredded pine bark and other gritty articles).

Here are a few pictures of it before and after. The cut tops are ponytail palm and the yucca and the middle sections. In between pine bales. The ponytail did not produce any roots but it didn't rot or dry up either. The yucca showed some roots. The final image shows what cutting did to the mother plant - she produced pups at the base and on the cut stem.