How to keep this snake plant alive??
Yβall I have not had good luck with my first snake plant. We are currently at the last resort by just putting the remaining snake plant and itβs single baby root in a cup of water. I just got a new snake plant from my new job and I desperately donβt want to kill this one. How can I keep it alive?
I am in the process of repotting it now. It does have a 4 pup offshoots growing, so the stakes are high. A lot more roots than I am used to seeing, and oranger. There is a lot of damage on the leaves and few spots on the pups. What is the cause and how do I rehab it?
Please provide me tips! I know to water far less frequently than other plants and to give bright indirect light. Thank you plant gods!
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I am in the process of repotting it now. It does have a 4 pup offshoots growing, so the stakes are high. A lot more roots than I am used to seeing, and oranger. There is a lot of damage on the leaves and few spots on the pups. What is the cause and how do I rehab it?
Please provide me tips! I know to water far less frequently than other plants and to give bright indirect light. Thank you plant gods!
οΏΌ #NewPlants #SnakePlant #TipsandTricks #SOS #DontDieOnMe
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Cosmetic leaf damage aside, she looks SUPER healthy! π₯°π And all those pups ready to break soil.. so exciting! π₯Ή
I have mine in succulent mix (obviously) but perlite + vermiculite (or zeolite) + grit [70%] to coir + moss [30%] is a good homemade mix too (you want to keep the organics really love with snakes, they're used to tough terrain!).
They don't care about humidity really, they can cope with a whole range, and the same goes for light too!! Yours is quite a chunky wee thing so I'd be giving her a fair amount (they go that thin, leggy looking way when they don't get enough because they etiolate to reach it... Which is the "traditional" Snake plant looks I suppose, but my eldest snake is a chunky girl and MUCH prefers not to be stuck in low light!). Also they'd rather been cool than too warm it seems.
Like Sarah @RealSimpleMama) says they're grow REALLY slowly!! π My chunky girl produced the single leaf pup, which shot up really fast, and has done NOTHING since! ππ But I still love her big bunny ears! π€© My best growing is actually a baby Tough Lady, who did nothing for months until I finally repotted her and moved her to the windowledge of my "succulent room" (I have to keep the succs away from the majority of my plants because they're mostly tropicals and it's FAR too humid for aliens and cacti around them! Lol π€£) the snakes can cope fine with higher humidity, but they help to keep it LESS humid for the others.
You're sad snake will root just fine in water (I'm fact snakes are one of those few plants you can propagate from a single leaf!! So don't panic you'll be fine!).
Plants are a CONSTANT learning curve! π (One of the things I love about keeping them personally) and we all make mistakes with them, but that's how you learn!
I'm a great champion of the #FAAFO (f*ck about and find out) technique! Lol if you don't try it, you'll never really know. Plants respond differently in different environments, so what works brilliantly for one person might not be the best thing for you... Just keep experimenting (& accept that occasionally you'll unalive one in the process π but it'll make you a better plant parent in the long run! π₯°) xx
I have mine in succulent mix (obviously) but perlite + vermiculite (or zeolite) + grit [70%] to coir + moss [30%] is a good homemade mix too (you want to keep the organics really love with snakes, they're used to tough terrain!).
They don't care about humidity really, they can cope with a whole range, and the same goes for light too!! Yours is quite a chunky wee thing so I'd be giving her a fair amount (they go that thin, leggy looking way when they don't get enough because they etiolate to reach it... Which is the "traditional" Snake plant looks I suppose, but my eldest snake is a chunky girl and MUCH prefers not to be stuck in low light!). Also they'd rather been cool than too warm it seems.
Like Sarah @RealSimpleMama) says they're grow REALLY slowly!! π My chunky girl produced the single leaf pup, which shot up really fast, and has done NOTHING since! ππ But I still love her big bunny ears! π€© My best growing is actually a baby Tough Lady, who did nothing for months until I finally repotted her and moved her to the windowledge of my "succulent room" (I have to keep the succs away from the majority of my plants because they're mostly tropicals and it's FAR too humid for aliens and cacti around them! Lol π€£) the snakes can cope fine with higher humidity, but they help to keep it LESS humid for the others.
You're sad snake will root just fine in water (I'm fact snakes are one of those few plants you can propagate from a single leaf!! So don't panic you'll be fine!).
Plants are a CONSTANT learning curve! π (One of the things I love about keeping them personally) and we all make mistakes with them, but that's how you learn!
I'm a great champion of the #FAAFO (f*ck about and find out) technique! Lol if you don't try it, you'll never really know. Plants respond differently in different environments, so what works brilliantly for one person might not be the best thing for you... Just keep experimenting (& accept that occasionally you'll unalive one in the process π but it'll make you a better plant parent in the long run! π₯°) xx
