An update! Not only did the cinnamon kick the fungus' butt, it also saved my jade plant from a nasty infection. No clue what it was but it's absolutely saved my plants a lot of grief and potential death. Now for the great news, round duex, the trees are growing. Yep, that's right, they've budded and have new green shoots appearing and looking very healthy. There's no sign of anything that could interfere, no fungus, no rot, nada. I have to say, I really was hesitant, and ultimately wasn't too sure anything good was going to come of this. But, I was wrong. I look forward to seeing them grow stronger, year on year. Thanks for all your help and encouragement. Sometimes is green-thumbs turn blue, sorry for the cheese! So in short cinnamon is like poison to mould/fungus/rot and Yucca Trees are slow growers, but great for propagation.

"If the marijuana community uses it, it must be invaluable" Since it is the number one cash crop, I listen. "..... and I think it's safer to assume/imply there ARE fungus gnats in the neighborhood than imagine there are not." I haven't seen a fungus gnat in a long time. "That's all wonderful if you need a wetting agent and don't mind the smell of rotting alfalfa and tobacco" You have a despicable habit of making up hypotheticals and then pretending that they are real. You don't anything about the smell of rotting alfalfa and tobacco because you never tried it. Besides, many houseplants are outdoors right now where it doesn't matter. Incidentally, did you stop beating your wife? ", but it seems like a lot to go through when the grower has absolutely no idea whether or not what might be in the alfalfa/tobacco juice is actually needed by the plant." No, it is less work to perform a controlled experiment than it is to decipher your excessively verbose BS.

I will add my two cents after a four year battle with this demon plant. There were many (plant) casualties along they way as I lost quiet a few as well as having to digup and relocate to lovely Japanese maples. First what didn’t work - Every chemical I could get my hand on trying to poison the damn thing. - Constant digging the roots out. - Weed screens - Yukka just grows right through the best of them. What finally worked. It wasn’t easy the house we bought four years ago had three big Yukkas in the main garden. I knew I was in trouble because when I would dig a foot down or more to the main roots they where huge and ripe, even after 6 months of no signs of growth the Yukka root looked like cutting a potato open white and juicy. We ended the battle this spring, we literally had to dig up our whole garden. Around 3 and 1/2 feet down to were we hit concrete which thankfully the previous owner had lined the bottom of the garden with. We had dig up every inch of dirt and then had it removed, cleaned the area with bleach for about a month and then brought in fresh dirt. There gone finally and we couldnt be happier. What I learned from the experience - never buy a house with them, unless you like the plant the amount of effort to remove is enough to land you in the looney bin.... Replace all the dirt, it could be the tiniest piece of Yukka you didn’t see that will regrow in a few months if you just dig out the root and then use the same dirt, remove every inch of dirt.

Soooo......yeah basically ever since I planted this thing in the new "gritty mix", it has gone downhill. ..and fast. It appears to be drying out. Some leaves are actually getting curling and getting crispy. I water every day. .the water goes from the top of the pot and is already draining out the bottom in mere seconds. I watered it around 10 today.it looked bad., I thought..ok..I need to water this even more. So I gave it another drink around 6. Just looked at it again and now it looks like it's straight up dying. I don't get it. Followed the gritty mix directions to a T. It was doing great in the "tiny" black container it was in when i had it for the first two weeks. Now that its in a "proper" mediym, and a large pot..it's dying. It's in shade, outside on my patio. What could possibly be wrong? Someone help! Al?