It's Alive!

Last fall, I wrote to you about my pony tail palm ....30 years old, and I knocked it over and the fronds all broke off, leaving me with the bulb and stem. Several of you wrote that it was a goner....to get another and start over. Others, whose advice I took, told me to give it a little water, leave it in the same location, and forget about it. I did just that, and I am so pleased to report that it has "pups" (is that what they're called? pony tails?) growing from both sides, about 6-8 inches in healthy, bushy length. There are 5 "threatening" to grow out of the very top that was broken, but for the past many weeks are just showing a tiny bit of green with no apparent progress.

Anyway, thank you to all who advised me so well. It's hard to lose something nurtured from the size of a green onion bulb to my beauty. When it gets a bit better, I may try posting a pic....Thank you, thank you, my new friends.

 

Loves Plants, I coppied your post to the original thread.

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