Dragon tree plant

[mothhawk]

This is a dracaena I got as greenery in an Easter bouquet in March 2013. When the bouquet flowers had finished, the dracaena was still green, so I stuck it in a bottle of water, and used it with several other bunches of flowers, until it started to grow roots.

It's been in this bottle of water ever since, beside the kitchen draining board. I top it up about once a fortnight, I've never changed the water, but I do add a drop of Baby Bio once a month.

[muddled]

Wow!

Will you keep it in its bottle or are you tempted to pot it up?

[noviceveggrower]

Wow I'm very impressed. How big will it get as it looks very tall now?

[mothhawk]

Wow!

Will you keep it in its bottle or are you tempted to pot it up?

I'm not the least tempted to pot it up, 'cos I don't really like them much, but I can't bring myself to dump anything that keeps growing.

Wow I'm very impressed. How big will it get as it looks very tall now?

Apparently they can reach six feet. that's the main reason I don't like them much. They just grow straight up, no side shoots, no flowers. If you cut off the top, it produces another shoot from near the top and just keeps going up. The shorter "shoots" near the bottom in the pic are just that, top cut off and shoved into the bottle - twice!

I'm tempted to plant it out in the garden and let it do its own thing out there until the frosts kill it.

[muddled]

I think that if you have a place to put it where it doesn't offend you too much, the plant has value as a 'good bit o' green' in any vase of flowers. That's what it was originally for after all!

Just keep taking off tops and using them for that...got any birthdays coming up to buy for?