PGF,
Is your plant in a pot/container???
If yes, how's the drainage?

And if it's inside, is in like direct sun
or indirect sun??

And how old is it?
*when did you get it?*

Had you recently moved it from another location
previously??

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2





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Yucca in the wild have a big/deep tap root. They also grow with more direct sun than any of us could survive. If I were you, I would unpot it and check the root. Is it firm and healthy? If there is rot, to what extent? Is it straight, coiled around at the bottom (as if it wants to grow deeper)? Any sign of bugs around the growth point or the small side roots? Some parasites are hard to see at first glance. If it's gooey when you squish it, no matter what it looked like first, tell us about it. My mother grew some yucca outside at her house and one year decided to transplant them. She couldn't/didn't want to bother, getting to the bottom of the root, so she cut it off at about a foot and a half and relocated the tops (these were mature plants). It took them a year or more to recover, but then they grew as well as they had before, blooming and all. 2 years later she found shoots coming up at the original site that eventually developed into reasonable plants. The moral of this story is ... yucca are forgiving. You haven't necessarilly lost yours yet. Be of good cheer,check it out, and tell us what you find!

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may God bless the WHOLE world!

Just finished inspecting my yucca. Nothing wrong with the root as far as I could tell. Actually it seemed too dry. Could it be that it went into shock as it was too dry (I had not watered it for over a month). There was no sign of any bugs. The root was coiled up but as the pot it is in is quite big and there was lot of room at the bottom, I kind of opened it out. Keeping my fingers crossed. Any thoughts?

Normal potting soil but I had added quite a bit of grit in it.

Thanks. I have brought it out to a sunny place.