Light: Yuccas grow best in bright indirect light. A Yucca will survive in lower light but be very careful with your watering. This slow growing plant will be even slower to produce new leaves in low to medium light. An ideal location for a Yucca is near a west, east, or south-facing window.

Water: A Yucca comes from the deserts of Mexico and Guatemala so it likes to be kept dry. Allow at least the top half of the soil to dry out before giving it any water. Too much water is the main and probably the only way to kill a Yucca.

Temperature: A Yucca can adapt to temperatures as low as 35 degrees and as high as 90 degrees.

Fertilize: Feed a yucca every three to four weeks in the spring and summer with a basic houseplant food.

Pests: The usual household pests rarely bother a Yucca; even spider mites avoid this plant. If you do notice mealy bugs or scale, spray with the green solution.

Propagation: A Yucca is propagated by plant cuttings.

1. My Yucca has some brown tips with like a yellow line around the brown.
You are over watering your Yucca. Allow the soil to completely dry out or the plant will die from root rot.

2. The top of my Yucca looks fabulous but almost every time I get new leaves on top one of the bottom leaves turns yellow.
A Yucca is a stalk plant. It's very natural for the bottom leaves to die back as the plant gets new leaves.

3. There are brown spots on the leaves of my yucca. Is this scale?
If you can flick the brown spot off with your fingernail or a toothbrush, and it leaves a sticky residue, it's scale. If the spot can't be easily removed, it's probably a leaf fungus. For scale, spray with neem oil or the green solution; for leaf fungus, cut off the diseased leaves and those below it, increase the air circulation around the plant, and keep water off of the leaves.

4. I am being very careful when I water my Yucca, but the bottom leaves are still turning light brown and crispy.
Your plant needs a little more water. Be careful not to over do it, but water it a little more frequently.

5. My Yucca has only one stalk left. I over watered for a while and lost the other two. This last stalk has green leaves on top of a bare cane and some new leaves coming out at the bottom of the cane; the cane is almost six feet tall. It looks weird. Can I do anything to make it look better?
Cut the main stalk off a little above the new growth coming in at the bottom. This will encourage lots of new shoots on the cane. Plant the green top with about a foot of the stalk attached in the bottom of the pot. It should root in about four weeks and you'll have a great looking plant.

6. The stem of my Yucca is soft and mushy.
You are over watering. Let the soil thoroughly dry out. Cut the stalk off below the mushy part. If the roots aren't totally destroyed it should start to send out new shoots in about a month.