Combining two snake plants into one pot?
Kevin Gliebe
7 years ago
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rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
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Comments (12)Sharon, thanks LOL It's in direct proportion to how much time, effort, and money it takes. It can range from just windy, to 25 with gusts to 40, overcast, downpour, hurricane. If it's really important, and really expensive, the earth opens up and just swallows me! LOL Got the Rutgers and Lemon Boys divided and planted today. Gave the others a boost with liquid fertilizer. Then ran out of potting soil. dangit Got to make another dirt run before I can pot any more up....See MoreHelp! Two fiddle leaf figs in 1 pot, one healthy, one w/ droopy leaves
Comments (15)Unless Emily has confirmed there are actually 2 separate plants and not 2 branches masquerading as trunks, which are connected below the soil line, we probably shouldn't take for granted there are 2 plants. Even if there were 2 plants, it doesn't look at all like there would be the kind of competition between plants of the same species such that one would be genetically vigorous enough to hog resources to the point it would create deficiencies sufficient to manifest a steep decline in the other. I mean, there are no roots crawling over the surface of the soil, and there is no disparity in size that could suggest a larger, taller plant might be shading out its shorter, smaller counterpart - so what competition? It's not unusual for one or 2 roots to be negatively affected by disease while other roots in the same pot or even on the same plant are better able to cope with less than ideal soil conditions. The result is often the death or decline of 1 plant in a group planting or one branch on a tree. Roots do have very specific connections to individual branches such that the death of a root can almost automatically mean the death of one branch. The 1 root to 1 branch connection is so strong in Thuja occidentalis (eastern white cedar) that when the center of old trees rot completely away, you can often observe several live veins growing from thick roots, each supporting only 1 branch. Most observers would think they were observing a ring of unusually shaped trees if they came upon this interesting occurrence in nature. Given the volume of soil available for root colonization, I just can't see it being a case of one plant outcompeting another, if in fact there really are 2 different plants. I'm pretty close to certain the issue is related to root health. Al...See Moresuitable pot for Sansevieria (Snake Plant)
Comments (3)Thanks for responding. Don't judge me, but the answer is: something in between, probably. I didn't really want to shake things up too much, so I put it in roughly the same size pot as the one from the nursery (8 inch). I kicked off probably 50% of the mix that was in the nursery pot and placed the caked root clumps into the new pot, surrounded by fresh potting mix. In other words, I didn't bare root it or anything. I kept a good amount of the original potting mix, really, in order to keep the clumps together the way they were....See MoreCan I combine two rooms into one large dining room?
Comments (14)Can you post a rough sketch (straight lines are not required!) of this floor of your home so we can see how they relate to each other? If you can note each rooms wall lengths and door and window locations, I'm betting there's a good solution out there that we just haven't come up with yet because we still don't have a very good feel for the existing layout. It's really too hard to get a complete idea with just photos. It would also help If you let us know your budget. That will help us know if we can dream big, or we need to keep to modest changes. One of the first thoughts I have, even without seeing your floorpan, is maybe you could split up the room next to the in-law suite (your current dining room I think?) so that part of it combines with the in-law suite to make that a little bigger, and part of it combines with that little extra room that's really just a hallway and plant area now, so that it makes the dining room bigger. (Again this is all based on whether or not I'm understanding which room is which, but I hope you are understanding my idea.) Now, it would be more expensive than just tearing down one wall, because you would be tearing down two walls and building a third, but maybe that would make the perfect size dining space, and you'd have a little bit bigger in-law suite as well. That could be a win-win. And now, you or others can say that can't possibly work because of this or that, (or maybe it does) and someone else has an idea, and so on. So please give us a rough sketch. That could be just the thing for someone to come up with a brilliant idea....See Morerina_Ontario,Canada 5a
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