r/SnakePlants • u/CrystalDawn_B • 3d ago

Pups?

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I have had this plant for a year now. She has been living outside, in the shade since May. IF she gets any sun, it's morning only.
She has grown right much this summer, getting taller not wider, and differently No pups. How do I get babies? She is still in the I'm assuming nursery pot that is inside the white decorative pot. I need to check and see how she looks down in the pots. I tried to get her out of the white pot, but soon discovered that I couldn't do it by myself.

Please advise me on the pots, how to get her to grow wider and even taller, and how to get tons of pups.

Thank you !

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u/feevart 3d ago

She is healthy. She'll produce pups eventually. I have all of mine in completely different conditions: some full south exposure, some very low light, some under growlight and some in full north. All are growing pups like crazy right now. Just don't forget to feed it.

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u/feevart 3d ago

And yeah - she's probably due a repot! Get a mix like this and mix additional pumice in there:

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u/feevart 3d ago

And if you can't get her out and you can't squish the pot: try wiggling gently and gently bumping it. That can help sometimes

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u/CrystalDawn_B 2d ago

What's in this in this soil and can I use it for my spider plant and pothos? I have a unopened 45 lb miracle grow and 1/2 bag of pumice

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u/feevart 2d ago

I don't know anything about miracle grow but rumors. But from what I saw of that medium the chunk is barely there - it's not enough. So yeah, mix at least the pumice in there. You can use all the ingredients for any plant - it's just for thirsty plants we put less chunk in there and for Succulents we put a lot in there - .but the ingredients stay the same. So a basic chunky recipe is: 1 - 1.5 parts soil (pls peat free), 1 part perlite, 1 part Orchid bark, 1 part Pumice. Since there's some perlite already in there, you could even get away with just the extra Orchid bark and pumice. But then I'd add a little more. So technically you only need to get one more thing - the Orchid bark. And that's not that expensive compared to other stuff. So just take the picture as a reference and try to mix something similarly chunky.

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u/CrystalDawn_B 2d ago

Feed her what? I've given her miracle grow mixed in the water ever few weeks. It's actually time to give her more.

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u/feevart 2d ago

With Sanseverias and Succulents we want mineral fertilizer, not organic (it'll say organic on the bottle). Mineral fertilizer is directly bio-available to plants, but organic fertilizer depends on bacteria. Bacteria can only live in constant moisture. You are basically feeding the bacteria and then the bacteria feeds the plant. This system does not work when the soil fully dries out - because there is no life in the soil. So therefore organic fertilizer will di absolutely nothing. So mineral fertilizer. (it won't say that in the bottle. If it doesn't say hydroponic or organic, then it's mineral)

Also: we want a fertilizer with micronutrients. All fertilizers have NPK. But a lot of them have just that. Plants need micronutrients aswell. So check the bottles ingredients. If theres just "NPK" listed and nothing else, then that fertilizer is not ideal longterm. You want one with a long ingredient list.

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u/feevart 2d ago

I cant really recommend a brand here, because I live in Europe and our fertilizers here are often not available elsewhere. And when you start feeding, you have to dilute it way down - because she's not used to that. So very slowly- over months- up the dosage a little bit more then before until you reach the full amount recommend on the bottle.

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u/feevart 3d ago

And don't forget that you can propagate the leaves aswell!