Hi Greg ~ Thanx I thought it was a nice mix ??? Anybody Up For Like a Smaller 5 Or 6 Plant Trade These are a few noteworthy ones I think would make a nice addition to just about any collection E \= Albuca Sp. F \= 2 \- "Crassula Tetragona" ? G \= African Spears \- Sansevieria Cylindrica H \= Cissus Quadrangularis Can do more than one of pretty much everything listed if there's anything you would like more than just one of Would happily trade any 5 or 6+ of your choice for 2 or 3 (Different) nice Hoya ~OR~ ??? Tempt Me I Really Just Want Some New Plants LOL Have a Happy & Safe 4th Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pic Is What "K" Looks Like When It Gets Bigger [](http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/cacti/msg0723331128152.070711592206.jpg)

Do not use water to root down Sansevieria. I have been propagating them for the past 17 years for the Huntington Gardens. Set them directly into damp soil if they have roots, and you may water again weekly during the summer, now is the time to start them or divide them or start new cuttings, wait at least a week when you do water again. Take a chop stick to measure if it needs water, test as if it was a cake. Don't water it it comes up wet. They love the heat but not direct sun, and may need a nurse plant. They need sun to grow. The plants need their own pot, but do not swamp them with size. Put the plant into the smallest one it will fit into. They need fresh air so they don't get mold. They will need heat above 55F and little water at that time of the year.( Winter) They will need bone meal in the soil and extra pumice/or perlite for drainage. In the tropics they do well with the rain every day. Some species are slow growing, others a little faster. They are not known to have pests. I water as night so I don't get water spots, if so I use a little vinegar in the water and wipe them off carefully, I usually water each one by hand at the soil line and rim of the pot and not down in the cluster of leaves, you don't want water to sit at the base of the plant cluster. Some speies about 75 at this time, send out runners others offset at the base of the plant, and many change appearance as they grow into adults. They do not die after they flower, they offset, the mother staying alive for years producing babies, You may start her over again to renew her and she will act like a teenager again. We have never used rooting hormone in the 17 years I have volunteered. We have experimented with it and found it a waste of time and cost. I have just finished doing 45 flats of plants and need to start on the next 45. I also start them by cutting up the leaves into 6" pieces to start them. Do not do this on the sports, or variegated plants, only on the species, each single leaf will start a plant as well, but we need 100+ before we can offer them for sale. Karen you did an excellent job explaining congratulations, I so proud of you I can pop. Karen I just pop up my leaf cuttings against the side of the pot. I only use 2" of soil to start the leaves in. Did we leave anything out? Norma

I love this mystery about S. guineensis, which should never be confused with trifasciata. Here's my fantasy. In the 18th or early 19th century at least one species of sans was grown in Africa as a crop to produce hemp and was called guineensis, maybe by the natives. So guineensis may be a corruption of some African word, but it's not a valid species name for any sansevieria. Anyway these plants were taken to the Americas and grown for the same reason. The hemp species may have been hyacinthoides or metallica or probably both, The plants escaped and "went native" in FL and south throughout the Caribbean to Brazil. I think some of the variegated plants like 'White Striped Giant' are metallica, but Juan Chahinian disagrees because the rhizomes are orange not red like N.E. Brown described. My theory is that 200 years of cultivation resulted in orange rhizomes. Hermine may have a different opinion, but this is my story and I'm sticking to it.

Holy crap! What a list. Dude you need to come to the MTPS at least once! I just found out that my fishin' buddy and his wife up in Lenoir City are getting divorced so that may put the kybosh on our spring fishing trips. 30+ years of marriage down the tubes; that is just heartbreaking. He is devastated. I WILL get to a Knoxville swap one of these days though, I promise.