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Aug 20, 2014 9:03 AM CST
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fiat said:Hi Purple, Thanks. Your message/info are so detailed and subtle that no simple "go" or "no go" (re-potting wise) can be found! I guess I'll just take that spacing need for the bunch and do it in a few days. Hope the bigger pot will do good.

Hi Cinta, I wonder your sister's "one" in a huge pot stands for "one single stripe leaf of sans"? or bunch of leaves bound together? I quickly scanned the photos from your link and didn't find it. I guess I can only dream to have my sans bloom any time soon. (maybe a more reality that I see their flowers from "above" sometime in the future :)

These are my 3 pots of different sans:


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Hi Fiat! Looking at your photos, the first one, you can repot that one now if you want. The last two, they are still okay with their containers, although, I would really add more perlite and/or pumice in that, just to make it a coarser mix.

These plants are quite slow growing indoors, so it can stay awhile in a smaller container, some even wait till the roots break the pot. Or some repot just because it is top heavy already having outgrown its container. As mentioned already, the best way to kill it is when it gets cold and wet. Given very warm temps it can get watered more often, they are actually water hogs in tropical areas, if grown in-ground, but there are more aspects helping it dry out outdoors, the sun/heat/wind.

But since you have them indoors, have to make sure you got your media very well draining since it will take awhile longer to dry out, that is why the often recommendation is to pot them smaller, so water drains faster to dry out.

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