A Few Facts About Snake Plant

This plant spreads by creeping, its stiff leaves grow up from a basal rosette.  Mature leaves are dark green with light gray-green cross-banding and usually range from 28–35" long and 2.0–2.4" wide.
It converts CO2 into oxygen at night. This plant also filters formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene, toluene, and benzene from the air. 

  tolerant of low light levels and irregular watering

To propagate you can cut a leaf and place in water or cut a section(roots and all) off a place in pot.   I use the leaf in water method to bulk up my snake plant, as the babies grow off the leaf in the water just break off and place in soil of main plant.  One leaf will just keep giving you babies. I had one for over a year, it only died when we moved out of state. 

De-crowding My Snake Plant

While re-potting my plants I decided to break up my Snake plant. It was getting a little crowed. I know they like to be crowed but it was going to hard to get them all back in the pot.     I took a lot of it out but there was still a bunch left, I hope it it still happy after losing some of its buddies.   On the plus side I now have two Snake Plants. 

New Soil For 2014, My Plants Are Very Happy

 

I had put this off a little longer then I wanted too but finally got a big bag of soil for these poor plants.  I got all but a few done in 3 days but lost my ump to do the remaining 4 or 5.  You don't realize how many you have until you're changing soil. I was pleasantly surprised to see good roots  on some of the cutting I had recently put in dirt. It is so fun to see how the roots looks, sometimes you have a big plant you expect to have lots and they don't.   I also moved things around a little, trying to make some more walk room in the my "plant area", I am still hoping to get some out of that room and put around the house but light rules.  So they stay where they are for now.  I need to make some hanging planters for the plants that can hang, that wold make a little more room but with me that will just make me get more plants.

I have some cutting for my mother-in-law, she lost a lot of her plants when she moved. So I thought I would be the good daughter-in-law and help her replenish her stock.  I don't know when we will be making a trip across state lines but I hope to have some ready to go when we do.   A local friend on mine is supposed to come pick up some Spider Plants from my last batch of babies that are in soil and ready to go, but she is a busy person and hasn't come yet.  I have some new Spider babies in water so I need the room, cause they don't stay in the water too long.

      This is just half of what I cut off, I am worried about the main Spider Plant cause it doesn't seem to be growing the babies as fast as it did last year. But it is still early in the year so we will see. I may end up having to keep some of these babies.