Ponytail Plant

When grown as a houseplant it will usually grows to about three feet tall.

Ponytail plant. A month after planting start feeding with Miracle-Gro Succulent Plant Food. A pony tail palm is a succulent tree with a swollen bulb for a base and a thinner trunk with thin leaves sprouting from the top. Just like a tall subtropical tree the Ponytail Palm plant has a central trunk with long leathery green leaves cascading from the top.

Unfortunately direct sun can burn the plant. For a newly re-potted ponytail plant indirect sunlight helps them to heal and grow healthy. Grow more ponytail palms by removing them from the parent plant and repotting.

Six feet high three feet wide indoors. The decorative ponytail plant is native to dry desert regions of Mexico and the southern United States. Indoors as houseplants ponytail palms stay smallerthough they can still grow to multiple feet tall with leaves that can grow to many feet long.

Propagation of a pony tail palm can be done by seeds but the seeds are extremely rare and difficult to find. Ponytail palm loves bright indirect sunlight. Outdoors the ponytail palm can reach heights of thirty feet.

Read here for the answer on how to prune a ponytail palm. This distinct plant brings a little fun to any room in your home. Indoors it may reach six to eight feet tall with a three to five-foot spread in width.

Ponytail palms grow slowly but when grown outside in warm climates they can reach heights of 20 feet or more. A slow growing evergreen tree. Ponytails make great indoor Bonsais and are ideal for beginners who desire a slow growing low maintenance plant for home office or anywhereConsidered extremely hardy they do well in either bright indirect or full sun.