{"id":3142,"date":"2019-11-07T00:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T08:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-771\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:42:37","slug":"pruning-and-propagating-dracaena","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pruning-and-propagating-dracaena\/","title":{"rendered":"pruning and propagating Dracaena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My indoor Dracaena is getting too tall. I&#8217;d like to prune it, and maybe use the cuttings to start new plants. How do I do this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You should be able to do both tasks. <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=10269\"><em>The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual<\/em><\/a> by Barbara Pleasant (Storey, 2005) says &#8220;when plants become too tall, cut off the cane at any height. New leaf clusters will grow from just below where the cane was cut. You can cut sections into 6-inch pieces and root them like stem cuttings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You might also find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org\/forums\/showthread.php?t=53668\">this discussion<\/a> from University of British Columbia Botanical Garden&#8217;s online forum useful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hort.ifas.ufl.edu\/database\/documents\/pdf\/shrub_fact_sheets\/dramarb.pdf\">Here<\/a> is more information, from University of Florida, which describes how pruning will result in two or more branches forming where the pruning cut was made: &#8220;Cut one or two of the stems to a point where new foliage is needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My indoor Dracaena is getting too tall. I&#8217;d like to prune it, and maybe use the cuttings to start new plants. How do I do this? &nbsp; You should be able to do both tasks. The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual by Barbara Pleasant (Storey, 2005) says &#8220;when plants become too tall, cut off the cane at any height. New leaf clusters will grow from just below where the cane was cut. You can cut sections into 6-inch pieces and root&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pruning-and-propagating-dracaena\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pruning and propagating Dracaena<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[570,121,104],"class_list":["post-3142","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-dracaena","keyword-plant-cuttings","keyword-pruning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/3142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}