Weigh in Yucca plant people of the eighties.

[Baitball Blogger]

If you were in your twenties through forties in the eighties, you know you picked up a yucca plant for the apartment. These damn things don't die, but they also don't grow old gracefully. We've had one since forever and I want to give it another shot, only, it's grown too tall for any area of the house that gets bright light.

Has anyone ever tried to lopp one off at the top to see if they will grow a new head?

On edit, it may actually be called a corn plant.

[Baitball Blogger]

1. I found my own answer. Including here for anyone who has the same question.

[Xyzse]

2. You can eat it right?

That is the Yuca that I am thinking of right? The ones they fry?

[riderinthestorm]

3. You can break them into pieces and gift them out to unsuspecting souls. Yours will still thrive

despite being chopped to bits.

They ARE indestructible!!!

[femmocrat]

4. It's probably not a yucca.

I have yucca plants outside. They get a tall stalk of white flowers once a year. You might have a dracaena, which were popular house plants.

It it's a dracaena, you can cut the top off and root it in just vase filled with water. (You can throw away the old woody plant.)
It will get roots in the water and then you can plant it in a pot. I have done this several times with mine to keep it a manageable size.

On edit..... cut it with an old knife, not a good one. The sap or juices are toxic, I think.