Snake plant very thin
L Evve (Miami)
3 years ago
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Rooting very thin stems?
Comments (5)I don't have many hoyas, maybe 15. The only one that's not doing a whole lot of anything is my H. macrophylla variegata. I love the foliage but it hasn't grown much in the past year. A few are new and others I've had for years but never paid much attention to them. They were always kind of neglected in the back of the greenhouse but seem to do well. I didn't realize how many gorgeous varieties there are until I visited Gardino's and started looking them up online. Unfortunately with everything else I don't have a lot of space for hoyas. If greenhouse space wasn't an issue I could go nuts. lol This is the 2nd year for the macgillivray and it's only within the past 6 mo that it's put on a significant amount of growth. I'd think that it would bloom within the next year. Thanks for the info. I'm sure I'll have more ?'s. I read the threads here often but post infrequently....See MoreSeedlings W/ Thin Leaves (very thin)
Comments (3)Hi Dave, I don't have a photo right now. It's a bit dark, as it's early morning here in Atlanta. The varieties that I'm noticing this with are Matt's Wild Cherry and Yellow Pear. The other tomatoes (Cherokee Purple, Eva Purple Ball, & Green Zebra) don't seem much better. They all have the thin leaf issue going on to some extent... I have sprouted seeds before in organic soil mix I bought at the store and had no issues in the past. I guess I should have stuck with what worked for me. In any case, I'm hoping these thin leafed plants might be able to get better in the ground where there are nutrients. I have this funny feeling though that they might be stunted somehow-pretty mad at myself for not being practical and fixing what was not broken. Thank you for your quick response, Dave. Stella...See MoreMy snake plant soil is still very wet after watering it 3 weeks ago
Comments (2)You could have just included these questions with your previous post on the same topic :-) It gets confusing with multiple posts from the same OP all discussing the same things! As I mentioned in your previous post, if the soil mix is not draining sufficiently rapidly, mix it 50-50 with the perlite. And yes, you can repot now if the soil mix is not working to your - or the plant's - satisfaction. Better to be pre-emptive on this if you feel the mix is excessively water retentive, rather than risking root rot....See MoreHelp with my snake plant
Comments (14)Looks like caked up hydrophobic soil, as others have said... I just had some with this problem - all my other pots of it were fine... I probably left out coir by mistake in that pot. I pulled them out, stuck the pot in a bucket with slightly soapy water for about 10 minutes - not detergent - natural vegetable soap. Then mixed in about a litre of hydrated coconut coir, plus a couple of extra handfuls of gravel, then replanted... problem solved, plants bouncing back. I've never known one of these to care about root disturbance, ever. I throw them around and strongarm them, bust them up and repot them all the time. Even when they're sick, they come up roses. (Not literally, lol). This is the plant that you can't kill unless you had some type of alien death ray shooting from your eyes - that or overwatering!...See Morerina_Ontario,Canada 5a
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