Red yucca maintenance

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hester_lowrance Granbury, TX Jul 19, 2008

Once a red yucca has bloomed and produced large seed pods, should the long flowers stems be cut off or back? It's unattractive after it blooms

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Jul 19, 2008

Once it's already made seeds it's not going to do anything else, so if you don't like it I don't see why you couldn't cut it back.

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nifty413 Garland, TX(Zone 8a) Jul 20, 2008

I realize that one of the great attributes of this plant is its low (or no) maintenance requirement, and that's the main reason I grow it. However, this year I finally tried cutting off the seed pods before they got much larger than a pea, and found not only did the stems produce a bit more in the way of blooms, but the flowering stems didn't arch and flop over like they have in past years.

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