It looks good Stush. Maybe more sun next summer to get the colors to pop.

It was definitely hot & humid when I put the slices in the leaves months ago, and I have several other unmolested rosettes left after sharing a few extras. I did it for the same reason I do about anything to plants, for the entertainment value of observing the reaction, to amuse myself & see what happens. Now that this one has made its' bloom, next summer, I'll chop off all of the leaves & propagate them, and see if the stump still feels like making more pups.

Tiffany, you sound like me. I love to propagate things even when I have no idea what I will end up doing with all the new plants. Somehow they all see to find homes. How do you propagate sansevieria from leaves?

You can stick 'em in soil, I did these about 4 months ago:




Or you can stick 'em in water. That's fun too since you can see what's going on, watch the tiny new rosette form. (Pic after about 3 months.)


For either method, let cut leaves dry at least overnight, (up to a few weeks.) The above leaves were propagated in homage to the conventional wisdom, which says that cultivar leaves will be extremely unlikely to produce a pup with the same variegation. So far, the leaves have proved the wisdom, though one looks kind of albino.

So, if one wants more plant mass with the cultivar variegation, leaf cuttings aren't the way to go, but it sure is fun to do, and to watch what happens.

I discovered you can let a leaf sit for a year and it will still root. I found a leaf laying in a empty pot that had broken off last summer. No soil nothing. I pushed it into a pot this summer and it rooted.

These plants are survivors.

Very cool! A few weeks is the longest I've had a leaf laying around.

I agree, very cool!

My kirii Silver Blue finally arrived from Thailand. Arrived very carefully wrapped and in good condition. I will most likely divide it into 2 parts in the spring. The one section has a very long leaf on it and I think the other part would look better alone.