Potting Routine For Sansevieria Silbersee Received By Mail
floorwalker IN zone 5b/6
7 years ago
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floorwalker IN zone 5b/6
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Sansevieria Snakeplants rotting like there is no tomorrow!!!
Comments (5)I really do think that water could be your culprit. You received some really good advice over at HousePlants. I think, water, perhaps in combination with the cold has a lot to do with this. Why do you use heated/warm water? A plant should never be watered with anything warmer than room temperature... This could be the problem also, depending on whether you heated this water, or it came out of the tap at a high temp. Whatever the reason, you need to harvest leaves, trim the ends, let them dry and callous over, then pot them up in quick draining soil in pots that will handle the height of the leaves with no roots to hold them in the soil. Your yellow banded leaves will lose the yellow banding because variagation like that will not come true to leaf cuttings. I am not certain that you have roots that will grow anything. If the leaves are detaching from the roots, that doesn't sound good to me. If you can find root bits that are firm, and have lots of orange roots with healthy looking growth, remove them from their pots, and start new with clean pots and different soil. I would move the cuttings away from the window, and water perhaps twice a month. In the beginning, I would water perhaps once a month, with some spray misting directly to the leaves, without wetting the soil to excess until you see new growth, or are certain that you have established roots. I hope that you get results from this, and check back to HPs to see if you've gotten any other good advice. That forum is much more active than this one is. There are some very knowledgeable folks here, just not as much activity....See MoreQuestions about Sansevieria (after reading a book about this plant)
Comments (33)laticauda(OK - zone 7) I think I read somewhere that to make a room have clean air (not just cleaner air) it takes like 15-20 6-inch potted plants. For one room. If plants can make a room clean (not just cleaner) why United States Enviromental Protection Agency does not write about it at all? Residential Air Cleaners (Second Edition): A Summary of Available Information Sourse: http://www.epa.gov/iedweb00/pubs/residair.html#Will-Air-Cleaning-Reduce-Health-Effects Quote: "Some air cleaners may produce new, potentially toxic pollutants or may re-disperse old ones". It's interesting to know can live plant produce new, potentially toxic pollutatns or re-disperse ones? For example, Sansevieria or SPider Plant....See MoreBest method to keep mailed offsets alive
Comments (21)I agree with all the advice you've gotten an your plants look great. One reason I justify picking up (to check the roots) is not so much to look for growing roots, but to check for rot or any precursor. Signs of rot are dark brown/grey/black flesh, furry or powdery look, moldy or sooty look. If I find rot or signs it's starting I will re-cut and apply rooting hormone. While it's true that looking for roots can damage tiny root hairs, I have issues with rot, in my climate (more in wet wintertime), and due to the fact that I have a lot of plants. Some varieties are more prone than others, so those I will pick up and check, esp. in winter. Even though they are in a dry house or indoors, wet weather/short days/slow growth, all increase the potential for problems. If you never ever/rarely have rot then I'd say don't pick up your rooting plants to check. And it may be, that as a newby who's learning the ways, it's useful for you to watch closely, to see those crispy bottom leaves and learn that that's healthy progress too. Or maybe once you've done this a few times you'll feel more confident to just wait....See MoreRepotting mail order plants
Comments (33)My Santa Rosa plants should be here Thursday. They are all warm season grasses but Ill hold off on planting until early september. I bought some little bluestems a few weeks ago, pulled them out of the pots, divided them, planted them straight in the garden bed, and have been watering with a watering can at the crack of dawn everyday it doesnt rain, and it is enough work. The new plants can live on the deck with my seed grown perennials until the rain does more of the work....See MoreMary978
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