Advice for re-rooting un-transplanted Sans pup; bumps/nodules on leaf?
acg85
8 years ago
Hi all,
Well, an indoor low-light area snake-plant (was told Hahnii) transplanted pup apparently worked its way up and out of the medium some time ago, and was just noticed. Outer leaves are soft and limp and visible roots gone - and now wonder what's best to be done. Not my plant and unfamiliar with sansevieria. So just back to medium to re-root? Or is something else wrong.
May be unrelated, but are the pictured bumps/nodules down towards the rosette core end of the leaves normal for this plant? If not: proto-roots or rhizomes? edema? mechanical or insect damage, or ? In a reversion to sitcom teenager I picked at one pimple (after swabbing it with alcohol) and did not recognize any sap-sucker hiding beneath - it seemed part of the plant.
Thanks.
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laticauda
8 years ago
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Comments (39)I like your questions Toni-even if I don't answer all of them. Yes it was a photo op with the plants on my entertainment center. It sits in the corner of a room with 2 double hung windows on the north and two on the east. It is a very bright room and lot's of my plants take turns sitting there. The arailia is in an antique chamber pot. I have 2 african violets that flower non stop year round. They are in a plastic pot within another pot-cups or cute bowls. I water from the bottom and fertilize with every watering and they flower and flower. I seriously do like looking at that moonshine pup. I recently had huge problem with my 22 year old baby boy. I never imagined parenting could be so hard. Fortunately, he seems to be on the right road again. But my plants were my salvation thru it all and this little pup made my day brighter as did the garden web. My sans starting growing in January this year. I do have one sans that has flowered twice for me-the flowers smell nice but they don't look like much. The first picture is moonshine and the second is pearl young I think. It does stay that color. It is a shorter leaved sans. I now have 5 pots of the cylindrical sans. The reason why I separated them was in another post someone said theygot rid of this plant because it grew to big to fast. I am tempted to do some trading with my extra plants or else give them away as christmas presents The zz plant has been a challenge. It had aphids and I did not figure out what had happened until it was almost mushed to death. So now I have 3 pots-the original pot and another one that looks like the one in the picture. I am an underwaterer. So you can imagine how little water my zz got. The plant that is in the original pot is putting out a new leaf. The 2 other pots need chopsticks to hold the plant in place. Quite truthfully, I would like to pitch them but maybe they will put out new leaves too. The moonshine in the first picture did need to be staked for a while because it tipped over once while being watered-another reason for clay pots. I am thinking about getting a mongo sans from one of the sites listed in the post on the sans forum. Diane...See MoreHelp transplanting Sansaveria
Comments (7)Yes, adding rocks should help more than planting deeper (which could cause a risk of rotting.) If a rosette is leaning to the left, putting a rock on the left side should help it stay straight-up until the roots have anchored the plant in that position. If you check periodically, removing the rocks to see if the plant can stand up, try to remove them as soon as you see plants are able to stand on their own. This will make it much easier for new pups to find the soil surface. Over the short days of winter, fast growth is unlikely. Just try to keep your plants warm and in as much light as possible. Wait until dry to water. When the days get longer again, the temps go up, that's the time to expect a new crop of pups to show up. There's no rule about it, but the blooms seem to usually happen during the shorter days between equinoxes, for plants kept in the captivity of a pot. You're right, it's a pretty rare occurrence. I've had these plants for about 20 yrs and have had blooms about 6-7 times. This discussion in the Sans forum has some nice pics of various Sans blooming: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3209366/my-sans-is-flowering?n=27...See MoreHow to root these Aloe cuttings
Comments (53)I am a woodworker , not a botanist. I will tell you what has worked for me and what hasn't. When I put succulents in water to root, they die. When I do it without water, they live. I am a pragmatist. I use hearsay from people who know more than me. I used to hang out on a forum of growers and botanist and I listened to what they do. True, some had fancy misting tables. Much of the scientific explanations of these multiple degreed people went straight through me. So if you are expecting me to throw at you some scientific rationalization, I am the wrong person. I have been rooting different succulents for 20 years. This is how I swing. You have multiple things going against you with the environment that you are in. Frankly, I do not see success. I would throw in the towel instead of what you plan to do and take up Stush on his generous offer.. The only thing that might save you at this point is some bottom heat or some warm lights to fool it into thinking it is summertime....See MoreManuel made me do it -- Handsome New Sans
Comments (40)Crown rot is my biggest problems with hahnii so keeping the crown elevated is always good advise. That said, they seem to grow new pups at soil level or below so some times I have to re-pot razing up the plant a little. Strong Sun light is a natural anti-fungal so come summer time outside vacation is always best for them. Karen, Love your Jade Marginata. Those yellow margins really stand out. I almost lost mine. Crown rot and then out of no where I got two new pups that are growing but ever so slowly due to no mother plant. I guess I'm lucky to have one at all. My hahnii Silver Marginata which I purchased as 'Starlight' has done remarkably well also but the leaves seem to have darken up some being inside thru winter. It really filled out the pot and needs a re-potting asap....See Moreacg85
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoThanks.
It was a fairly small pup taken from a longtime houseplant. Never seen scale in person. Should living scale move or come loose if disturbed or prodded? These don't seem to.
It was sitting on the surface. Don't think it was rot. Maybe it never grew feeding roots? The pup had been put into a mineral grit-type medium (weeks/months? ago), was not staked or supported, left under very low-light, and apparently stayed below the radar, except for an occasional application of water with the other plant containers cluttered around it. Here's the base:
Sans2014
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoacg85
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