Hi there, i am just asking i anyone has any experience with a common english yew before. The reason being that i am growing one from a cutting. Does anyone know how good they are at back budding or sprouting from old wood?

Yews will back bud easily on very old wood, but it is not best kept inside as I expect you are.
I bought a couple of small trees a few weeks ago with buds breaking all down the trunk,
Geoff.

i know i have said that i only have an indoor space but i managed to scrap up an outdoor space. i will move it out fully after spring but have it in a winter frame or keep it indoors for the rooting stage? (indoor or outdoors for rooting?). i can move it out in spring and i will get a pollytunnel but not like a greenhouse, it will just cover the top, and let air circulate (the purpose of the pollytunnel is to stop people from jacking it.

thanks

If it is rooted then it needs to be cool, so a frame the is cold would be fine, if it is not rooted then you could keep it in but cool not in a heated room

Yew is sensitive to frost at root-level. So try to not let the rootball freeze through.
Backbuds easily, particularely n branches of 2+ year old. This bark, when wiring, becarfull in spring: THe bark slips easily in early spring.

Thanks

The reason i wish to grow a yew is to see if i can do and practice deadwood and jin in a few years. Also the wood is vey dense so is naturally quite resistant to rot but i will use lime sulfur as well. I think it would make a nice tall variant windswept style in a fe years or more.

They do not grow fast enough for what you want. Better find yourself an affordable collected plant, or dig one yourself from a hedgerow.
If you ever make it to this part of the world with transport, you can get one of mine, assuming they survive. I recently collected some 10 of them, all with 2-4 inch trunks, 25+ years old.

thanks, i guess i can afford to wait ten years, it will be good to know i grew it straight from a cutting. i dont think i will be able to go to the netherlands until 7 years from now, thank you for the offer. when i go to the netherlands (i've always wanted to go there along with other countries) i would be very happy to meet you, but that would definitely be rather a lot of time from now, but you never know. thanks.