My snake plants are all having babies. I am really excited except I have no clue what to do with them or how or when to transplant them. Help!!!!!!!

You don't really have to do anything. You could do what a lot of people do, just move it all into a larger pot and develop a big family. If you do want more plants you can wait until the kids are a reasonable size and then depot the whole thing, cut off a kid with some root attached and pot it up separately. Any pix? Gene

Thank you Gene.

Some of mine have been in the ground for temporary summer vacation for about 2 months, some about 3 months.



The bricks are so I don't accidentally step on this little 'Whitney' plant.

A propagated leaf of that.

Moonshine:

A spot with some plain species S. trifasciata (and a lot of Coleus 'Indian Summer':

Even though I do summer all of my Sans. outdoors for the summer, I leave them in their pots. If I planted them in the ground I'd be afraid that they would grow lots of roots that I'd miss digging them up again. I'm also wary of insects. 95% of my pots are off of the ground. I figure less bugs that way. And this gives me the option of moving them around during the summer. Gene

I am really excited. Two of my three plants have babies. Not sure what to do with them, but for now they can live with their mommies. @gasrocks, any advice.

I am snooping around older posts. @JB, how do your "Snake Plants" look now? Have the babies taken over the world yet?

Just started moving plants back inside. So far I have found 17 pots of baby Sans. from cuttings. Gene

Wow. I am afraid to ask how long it takes you to get everyone inside, seeing how many Sans. you have.

So far I have moved about 220 plants back inside. That probably leaves me 1500? to go. I'll count them all when I'm done moving them. Average first frost date is fast approaching. Forecast looks good for at least another 10-15 days though. Watch that change suddenly! Gene

Hamwild said:I am snooping around older posts. @JB, how do your "Snake Plants" look now? Have the babies taken over the world yet?

Thanks for asking! I will take a couple pictures as soon as the phone gets off the charger. They are really growing.

gasrocks said:So far I have moved about 220 plants back inside. That probably leaves me 1500? to go. I'll count them all when I'm done moving them. Average first frost date is fast approaching. Forecast looks good for at least another 10-15 days though. Watch that change suddenly! Gene

Oh my.

JB said:

Thanks for asking! I will take a couple pictures as soon as the phone gets off the charger. They are really growing.

gasrocks said:So far I have moved about 220 plants back inside. That probably leaves me 1500? to go. I'll count them all when I'm done moving them. Average first frost date is fast approaching. Forecast looks good for at least another 10-15 days though. Watch that change suddenly! Gene

I hope you make it. This weather is just so unpredictable the weather man is going mad.

Hamwild said:

OK...here are the monster plants. I have no idea their names, but they like it here.






Here is the little one and it's baby. side and top view

JB said:

OK...here are the monster plants. I have no idea their names, but they like it here.






Here is the little one and it's baby. side and top view

The first two look like S. trifasciata (they are the more common and easier to grow 'snake plants') and the third one looks like a 'hahnii' cultivar. They look very happy! Thank you for taking the time to take more pictures.

Those tall ones keep on growing up.....how tall will they get? What do you do with them when they get too tall?

JB said:Those tall ones keep on growing up.....how tall will they get? What do you do with them when they get too tall?

I *think* they can get up to 4-5 feet.

I'm not sure about what to do if they get too tall, I've never had one make it very long in my care, lol.

There are some species of Sans. that, in their native environment, can grow to 8-12' tall. Gene

I'd like to get the Hahni cultivar for my desk.