Title: How Do I Divide Yucca Plants? | Hunker
Headings: How Do I Divide Yucca Plants?
How Do I Divide Yucca Plants?
Yucca Growth
Dividing Yucca
Propagating Yucca From Divisions
Sarah Metzker Erdemir

Content: If your yucca plants have grown too large for their space, you can cut them back while still maintaining their beauty. Advertisement
Yucca Growth
Yuccas are drought-resistant and easy to take care of. Yucca plants grow by sending out rhizomes from the main stalk. The rhizomes sprout new baby plants, which is why yucca spreads so efficiently that some people consider it a pest. One way of propagating yuccas is to cut the rhizomes with baby plants from the main root. Dividing yuccas to control their growth works on the same principle. As the yucca plant grows, it's necessary to thin it out by dividing it because the plant can begin to crowd itself with too many clumps packed closely together. Dividing Yucca
You might be able to divide the yucca plant without digging it up. If you look around the base of the plant, you will see the smaller clumps of baby plants on smaller rhizomes, called offsets. Rhizomes look more like twisted underground branches than roots, and you don't have to be as gentle with them as you do with exposed root systems.