I love to see your pics Stush. you have such a green thumb. And you are more than kind with your help and sharing....I owe you! Oh, oh, I have to refigure out how to post but I have two that I thought were dead but actually survived and now have pups but I don't know the names. It took about a year for these to actually do anything. Maybe it helped that I tried not to kill them with kindness (which I have the tendency to do). These came from a box of sans that were dried out beaten up at the swap meet last summer. This is how I was able to collect a few for a great price but I did take a chance. They all survived and produced offsets but these that I'm talking about I thought were goners.

Michael- it seems I owe you and the readers a wee apology on my insistence that the inflorescence on 'Silver Blue' was capitate. As pictures will show, the shape of the flower head is club-shaped. I have recently seen the term, 'pseudocapitate' used for this type of inflorescence. Cactusmcharris - Oh yes! Its a sweet smeller! Put nose against your monitor and see if you can smell it. Ha! As usual for Sansevierias, it only releases its love signals at night time. The smell is similar, but not exactly like other Sansevieria flowers. I'm beginning to think all the species have similar, but unique, fragrances. I'm going to follow this post with a few more pictures because it is rare to see this species in flower, and because capitate flowers are unusual to see in all their glory anyway. All these pictures were taken at night with an auto mechanics potable lamp for incandescent lighting.

Sans2014 mostly from the good folks here! I got one from ebay and think I ordered three from glasshouseworks. I had a kirkii 'Silver Blue' that rotted on me for unknown reasons last year. That is one I want to replace. I also had a kirkii 'pink form' I had bought which I liked but got too big and I had to get rid of that one. I think I know how to grow them well. Although beautiful I have problems growing the extreme variegates like S. trifasciata 'Craigii' and 'Forescate'. Both of these are drop-dead gorgeous plants and I can do well with them when tiny but when they need more space I have problems getting them good locations regarding light and warmth through the winter. I know HOW to grow them.......and I could probably adjust my growing conditions with equipment and modifications to grow them......but with family and work and other things it is easier to grow the ones I DO like and do well for me. There are a few I will always keep I think. A couple of the hahnis as I like them and they fit well on a windowsill. Favorites include 'Streaker', 'Jade Dwarf Marginated', 'Silver Frost'. the latter is variable........and I kind of enjoy the variability of the unstable variegates......each new pup and leaf is a little different. I love S. t. future 'Striated', and the taller S. trifasciata 'Wagner's Gold' for that reason. I also like my yellow parva and S. senagambica variegated and S. 'White striped Giant' and S. cylindrical variegated (a little harder and larger than the others) for same reason........each pup different. S. kirkii 'Coppertone' is a beauty for the coloration, as is that tall 'Siam Silver' I have in a bucket (see other thread). Oh, I forgot S. masoniana variegated.........how could I forget that as it is near the top of my favorites.......I am willing to give that one a little more shelf space. There were others I like but no longer have......S. patens comes to mind is a nice species and easy. I have too many types as it is, LOL! I first got into Sans by accident.....I like all plants, and was looking on here. There are old threads on here form Joe DeRosa...who lives near my work (although has since disappeared unfortunately) and Russ Hammer who is on the list who both got me some "new types" in trade. Later Mike L and others here also helped in trade. All GREAT people. Oh my first S. hahni 'Silver Frost' came from Norma Lewis just for being interested in Sans. Sans when into sort of a boom in popularity about the time I got interested in them.....and several years ago now. At that time prices on ebay etc. skyrocketed for a while. S. masonianas variegated were going for well over $100.00 each for small, single leaf plants. Anything being sold by Juan Chahinian went for high prices.........variegated pinguiculas of his were selling for well over $1,000 or $2,000 each on ebay. Fun to watch. In any case, things seem to have settled down a bit. Unusual types can be hard to find but there is plenty out there to choose from. That was probably a longer answer than you wanted.....

Apparently Stush, plants AND their leaves are survivors. I think leaves from extremely thick sans like Silver Blue, kirkii Superclone and the like need a 'dry propagation' technique with little to no watering. And they'll definitely not suffer since they have a year's worth of moisture stored in their leaves, literally. So a month or three waiting to root is a piece of cake. One thing I've noticed about using bottom leaves for propagation, sometimes the plant is getting ready to discard the leaf when you take it for prop'ing, and it starts yellowing shortly after you put it in a medium. The yellowing starts at the tip and works down, and there's nothing that will stop it. The leaf will yellow completely and die within a week or two. I just had a leaf of a rare sans do that, much to my disappointment. Russ