Curling Yucca Leaves

//Curling Yucca Leaves

Your plant appears to be a Yucca elephantipes, and is it possibly a recent cutting? Yucca cuttings should have at least a week to dry off before planting. During the time the cutting is developing roots it is not unusual for the leaves to curl as there are no roots bringing water up into the plant. Your soil looks wet. I would suggest two things. First choice, don’t water again until the soil has gone almost completely dry, and then water. This might be enough to get the roots working provided they haven’t suffered a severe rot. Second, remove the plant from the soil and hose off the root end clean. Give it a week to ten days to just lay around out of direct sun and then plant it up in a new, fresh, well draining soil mix. Give it a good drink and don’t water again until the soil is almost dry. This will hopefully have started some new healthy roots. You may still see some leaf curl but it should stop with the new leaves that come out of the center as it starts growing.

By | 2016-02-28T04:40:08-08:00 February 28th, 2016|Succulents|1 Comment

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  1. Emma December 15, 2016 at 5:37 pm - Reply

    Hi – I got the same yucca cuttings potted in a black plastic pot 6 weeks ago.. it looked okay until this week when I noticed their leaves curling upwards similar to your photo here.. I used regular potting mix when I potted them.. I wonder if I should have used a succulent potting mix instead? Also, I can read that you provided 2 options.. I would like to try option 1 first but can you kindly advise how many days or weeks should I wait before trying the option 2? Thanks.

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