I got my 'Moonshine' - how do I make/keep it white?
I have wanted an S. trifasciata 'Moonshine' for some time, and I stumbled across a lovely one on sale tonight, so I'm pretty excited with it. It is a bit greener than I'd like, so I'd lime to know what growing conditions will give me the lightest color overall. I've read that it grows whiter in more light, and greener in less. I also read that new leaves start white and turn darker green with age.
My experience with white variegation in tropical plants is thst once the variegation on leaves turns greener due to low light, those leaves will never get their white markings back again no matter how much light they get. To preserve variegation, the leaves must get enough light from the beginning.
I presume the same is true of Sansevieria, but I'm only guessing. Anyone have a 'Moonshine' and can you tell me the best way to get the most white color in this plant?
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Oh, I popped in here to ask how folks' Moonshines are doing & share a pic of my pup. And doing so reminded me I was supposed to cut a leaf to propagate in Oct. I didn't. Sorry, will do this summer & see/show what happens.
This plant was in the ground last summer, potted in Nov to come inside. A new pup is doing well! (One leaf has holes in it, another experiment. No results yet.) (Sharing a pot with Tripogandra, a close relative of Tradescantias/WJ, and Dracaena 'Rikki,' and ZZ tuber that looked so awful I cut what was left of its' leaves off when it came inside.)
Looking closer, with new ZZ leaf forming.
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I had to show you this. This is a tiny piece of a 'Moonshine' leaf that I accidentally broke off in the fall or early winter. It's just over an inch long, probably, and maybe half an inch wide. I hate to toss anything, I stuck it in one of my rooting trays thinking it'd dry out and die... but it didn't. Can you see that it has TWO pups?? It hasn't taken any longer to root than the much larger leaves I cut for the purpose, and it has TWO pups verses one and zero from the two larger leaves. Amazing, huh? You just never can really predict what living things will do. It blows my mind.
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Mmontina, I like the light colour of your sans but it's no 'Moomshine'. It is a Sansevieria trifasciata Futura of some type. I have a Silver Laurenttii and when it pups, they look exactly like Moonshine until it gets a little bigger then the yellow margins show up.
They get big and darken with age. Now my Moonshine and I have plenty.
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