What’s wrong with my whale fin Sansevieria?
Alyse Cole
3 years ago
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I need help my Gem of the dessert cacti may be dying!
Comments (65)My name isn’t Justin and I don’t work for Costa Farms, but I will try to help you Camille:). Your cactus is Mammillaria vetula subs. gracilis cv. Arizona Snowcap, but if you‘re ever looking for more info you can easily type in Mammillaria ‘Arizona Snowcap’ instead of the long name I gave you in green, which is a link that will give you info on your cactus. Idk if you know this, but the new spines won’t be blue or yellow, they will be white. This cactus is a slowww grower. I personally think the first thing with any plant growing is knowing what plant you have and a little bit about the plant. If these were mine I would unpot, gently remove as much of the old soil off the roots as you can , and repot in a better faster draining mix like a perlite and or pumice mixed with cheap cactus soil. The pots look like the right size, if they’re root bound you can go up one pot size. After repotting cactus I wait about a week or two and then water them. It’s the start of the growin season so now is a great time to do this. If you live on the Northern Hemisphere of course. During the winter this cactus should be kept totally dry. I know that may sound nuts, but it’s normal when growing cactus. Many of my cactus got their first drink of water since late October a few days ago. Like my Mammillaria duwei Before After Any pieces that have fallen off set on top of the mix and they’ll root eventually. It could take months for this process so be patient and leave them be. Any rootless pieces should be kept in bright filtered sun, especially when it starts to get hot because the rootless little pieces will fry. Lastly, during the growing season your cactus may need to more sun than what’s being provided, so slowly acclimating it to more sun is probably in its future....See MorePics of my Sansevieria as of today
Comments (38)If you'd like another kirkii v. pulchra Mentha, I can send a small one of mine or get a larger one from my brother given some time, he lives 250 miles south of me. Yes, those small plants in the foreground are the scourge aroid, Gonatopus boivinii. I can get it from him for you if you want to try it. I had it here at one time but lost it, perhaps that was a stroke of luck considering Roger's problems with it. If a leaf falls to the ground, a tuber will form at the petiole end and produce a plant. Pull it up and remaining underground tubers will produce more plants. I've forgotten it's habit but I think it wants to be a low shrub, obviously very hardy but would obviously need to be indoors in your winters. Some of the many scourges here in Florida are several varieties of Kalanchoe. Thousands of K. tubiflora plants grow across the street from my parent's home in Cocoa Beach, at the beach access ramp. There's also thousands of Sansevieria hyacinthoides there, another scourge but less so. My parents ended up with tubiflora plants growing around their pond, how they got there I don't know but it's been impossible to get rid of them. Russ...See More2 sansevieria with same label at a garden nursery. Don't look the same
Comments (30)That's no hahnii Russ, See the brown edges on the leaves. Showing the juvenile leaves not to resemble the mature leaves in a lot of species. Interesting to see what you get. My Seibert doesn't show much lighter stripe in center at all. Most don't show any. So far no strange pups from it, only regular hahnii looking ones. Lady who gave it to me did have some Solid Gold pups from the main plant that she gave me this from. I do now own two plants from different Gold Hahnii that produced Solid Gold for me. I have to keep them warm thru our winter months. Most fussy plant so far. My albino pup from a Gold Hahnii leaf has some faint green in it and hoping that is enough to help it survive. Going on one year soon so it is the oldest one so far that I was about to keep. Sort of looks like the one Chris gave me called "Philippine". New leaves look albino/yellowish then darken with green with age. Extremely nice hahnii. I have to keep that one warm with extra lighting to keep it alive. So far so good. Pictures coming soon when I start to take them out. Here's old photo when I got it. Russ, we should move this conversation to my new post of Sanseveria chat. We are dominating this post. My apologies to 'Newhostalady'....See MoreSansevieria Chat and Show and tell your story
Comments (299)Well those new plants from the Boncel leaf look like regular cylindrica pups, no stocky shaped leaves.. This tells me that Boncel could be nothing more than a chemically treated offset from birth and will grow out of the short, stocky habit over time and go back to it's natural shape. It would be interesting to hear from anyone that has an old, large Boncel as to what leaves look like after years of growth. My experience seeing pictures of begonias grown under lights is that colors are changed and much intensified vs the same species grown in strong natural sunlight. That might explain Stush's red colors in leaves of Coppertone, altho what I'm calling pink you might describe as red. I think the greens may have had a reddish tone, so this might be what you noticed. Regarding your low humidity in the tent, how big is it? I initially thought you have a small enclosure with a few plants in it, now I'm thinking you can walk into it. The desert type sans like your pinguicula and the one similar to Samurai or possibly sp. Lavranos 23251 won't appreciate higher humidity, but trifasciata types and parva might. If you haven't already, setting bowls or saucers of water among the plants should raise humidity levels. Dear Norma or whoever wrote about a 3 foot terminal spine may have meant 3 inches, which would still be a formidable spear. Chahinian says that leaves only grow to a foot long in maturity, and interestingly also says that the leaves go from sticking out in all directions in youth to being arranged in single file at maturity. For those technical folks, this is called a distichous form of growth. What are the 'other plants' in the tent that are doing so well? I don't get why the cilantro isn't growing like a weed in those conditions. Good old Houzz, I found that you can close the big spaces between paragraphs to a more reasonable space by submitting, clicking on Edit at the bottom, and clicking Submit again....See MoreAlyse Cole
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