Not only is pot size so important but also what the pot is made of. The outer glaze on pot and amount of light this snake plant was not allowing enough airflow to evenly dry the plant which caused inconsistencies in watering. Because of feel of overwatering, I went the other direction and under-watered for too long, causing loss of roots, and now this pot is way too big. When it comes to my succulents, I prefer a plastic or terracotta pot. 💦 watering: when the soil is completely dry all the way through. Avoid watering the crown of the plant, you make cause crown rot if you get water in the crevices so water directly on the soil. ☀️sun: partial to full sun. Yes they can TOLERATE low light bur you risk rot and it growing leggy. 🍂 soil: succulent soil mix. I use a cactus/succulent potting mix and add bonsai gravel and/or pumice stone.
Could you pretty please do a video all about the do's, the don't's, and the in-betweens on succulents. My poor succulents just don't seem to be happy and I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've re-potted with the soil mix you showed us you use, I've had them indoors by windows and currently have them outdoors (cuz my cat apparently likes to bite the bean shaped leafys), watered more/less/when no soil stuck to stick, and they live in nice wide well draining pots (one looks like the base of a cactus ❤) with enough space between each succulent so they can grow nice and voluptuous. Some of them do seem happier than the others, but the majority just seem ready to give up. They're losing their nice colors and some can't seem to hold on to their leafys. I've been collecting the leafys to propagate baby succulents. Some of them are blooming 🥰 and will be ready for soil in maybe a week or two, but if I can't get the parent to be happy; then the baby's will probably live an unhappy life aswell. These are my first succulents (also rescues from Walmart) and I just want them to be happy and healthy. I need all the help and advice I can possibly get. The succulents and their babies will probably be very thankful for the help as well. Please and thank you 🌵❤
How are your succulents doing today? Are some of your leaf babies growing well? The 3 ingredients are ☀️, water 💧 and soil mix in this order. Take them outside for the summer. Introduce full sun gradually 👍🏼🪴🪷☀️
Unrelated, but my snake plant just bloomed and I’m astonished! I never knew that they grew flowers and they were absolutely beautiful. If your snake plant is a happy guy, there’s a chance they might grow some flowers 🥺
Ours is in second bloom in 5 years. I had the mother plant for almost 15 years when I lost it to an early frost, but two tiny stalks remained. Now they’re over 5’ tall and time to repot again.
I like using terracotta pots for all my succulents, snake plants included, I also found out that snake plants like to be pot bound, so I planted them in smaller sized pots and they're doing great 💚💚💚
I’ve wondered about the pots that are glazed terracotta, but only on the outside. I just water a bit more than regular terracotta. Mr. Sheffield 😊 suggested glazing terracotta in/out. Might try that as I love terracotta. Thanks Krystal! Wishing I had found your videos much earlier! ❤
I thought I was neglecting my little snake plant, but it was happy enough to give me a little baby snake plant recently... I am overjoyed to see it thrive in it's little clay pot
My snake plant is so happy living outside! I realized that I was way over watering it when a bunch of leaves came right out of the pot, but I propagated those clippings and the mother plant is doing strong with minimal water. The clipping survived and are now potted!
I seriously look at my snake plant like "I see you have little snakes coming up between your leaves? you sure you don't want water? here have just a wee bit your baby leaves need to be big and strong" then I am like "please don't die please don't die I'm sorry" for like 3 weeks and the same with my poor tortured 3 leaved zz plant LOL it's having a new leaf and I am like "you sure you don't want water?? you really sure??" It goes against everything I know. Fortunately, my spider plants are like "YO UP HERE HOOK US UP WITH A H2O IV DRIP LADY!! DONT BE OFFERING TO THEM WE NEED THAT!!!" I probably should get out more, but then I end up buying more plants while I am out, so it really solves nothing :D
Well, you could go browse the wal... I meen, whichever local big (blue/yellow branded) supermarket's succulents and see if they've dropped any leafys that are all by themselves. Allegedly, the employees don't seem to mind as long as you're not purposely breaking the leafys off the plant. Hypothetically speaking, that may or may not be how a few (Allegedly) ended up in my propagation closet 😅
@@BooBunny1994 haha they don't carry houseplants in my town! Only the grocery store or the actual nursery! The grocery store actually has a floral department with houseplants and they maintain it and always have someone working! So I get a new plant like, once a week... They have been bringing in alocasias, in going to be in my own jungle. I should invest in a Bengal cat to finish my jungle look out 🤷🏼♀️😂🤔
@Marisa Omg, that sounds awesome and I'm glad to hear your stores take care of the plants they sell. The supermarket where I live don't really seem to care a bit about their plants. Half the time I go there all the soil in every pot is bone dry unless it was raining earlier that day. They have all their succulents inside with little to no access to sunlight, there's always a few that look completely dead or the stems are almost completely rotted and some will just fall right out of their pots because they'd been dropped at some point and were just tossed back into the little pot and put right back on the shelf. It's just like back when the Corp used to sell fish but didn't pay to have any employee trained on how to care for the fish they'd be selling. It got so bad that anytime I went shopping, I'd stop and count every single dead fish I could see and report the total to any manager I could find. I think the most fish I found in one day was somewhere between to 200-300 cuz it happened to be a restock day.
@@BooBunny1994 I got a pink princess with 3 in the pot (4 inch pot but they're already big now) including a ceramic cover pot for 13 dollars. A zeylanica snake plant in a 6 inch pot with census cover pot for 20 dollars, pink dragon alocasia, they have the dragon scale but the plant was small for the 20 and it's not one I'm super eager to get, I would have if it was larger though, they get their plants in like once a week and they're all gone by the end of the week, so they don't really have time to be abused! I also got a second adansonii there and a 3rd deliciosa, one for 13 one for 20, Maranta, string of turtles was last week, peperomia obtusifolia variegata (think there are three in the pot but I've had it like 18 months)... They bring in a lot of variety but small quantities so it works out really well. Last week they had Boston ferns and maiden hair ferns, I was tempted to try another maiden hair but I know come winter I just can't keep the humidity high enough 😭 I have one of those weird focus ginseng bonsai from there to, I think it was 16 and it has a cement cover pot. My theory is that if the plant dies, I still got a decent deal BC cover pots can be a small fortune on their own!
@MarisaAndChew I’ve enjoyed reading this exchange! 😆 I can relate to your initial post, I’ve gotten better with watering over time. That’s awesome you have access to that variety of well-kept plants! Take care
My snake plant is beautiful. I grow succulents just fine. It's literally everything else that I kill. Hahaha 🤣 My snack plant grew so much that I gifted some to family members. I still had enough for 2 pots to put in my patio. They are about 4' tall. I'm so happy with them.
We have a lot of snake plants in the forest . They grow like grass and they're everywhere. Snake plants are easy to grow , can tolerate summer heat and intense rain . Wish you're near I have a lot of this varieties .
I just bought a snake plant! I go a big yogurt container and made a drainage hole and repotted it because a pup was growing and pushing on the wall of the nursery pot. Come to find out it was 2 pups!
I water them once a month and sometimes I chop off too long leaf. And all the pups start popping out. But I had this snake in small pot it needed water once every two weeks. And ceramic is very tricky to use for me too.
You can only overwater them when planted in soil. I have a snake plant just in water and it's thriving, but you have to keep an eye on it bc you can underwater it pretty easy.
My snake plant I got Mother’s Day last year has doubled in size and it’s still in its nursery pot! 🤯 I just check the leaves and soil and water if droopy or dry. 🤷🏻♀️
Aside from frosts snake plants have been tough as heck. I treat it like my porch gnomes. It gets water when it storms hard enough to be raining sideways.
I bought a big snake plant and spit it into several single plants. I have one piece growing in water. IT IS BLOOMING 😮 I never knew they did that. I wish I could send a picture 😊
I love taking advantage of videos like these cause the comment section is rife with plant mommies I can petition for advice. Anyways, Does anybody here know when the best time to re-pot a majesty palm is? What's a solid plant to pot size ratio for them? My baby's getting a little root bound.
I just got one and I love it. They are so pretty. If you know it is root bound, then report it now. Go up 1 to 2 inches in pot size. Shouldn’t need to repot again for 1 to 2 years. 😊
If I could choose just one person to learn all of the gardening knowledge they have and just get to do like a master class with them one-on-one for like a weekend or something LOL just to really immerse myself in the learning. 😅 Because i dream of having the most amazing garden that is just abundant and whimsical and like a dream❤
If you want to improve your root structure, wait until your plant is due for a watering and water it with properly mixed Root & Grow. It signals the plant to put more energy into root development.
How did I not know it was a succulent lol. Thankyou your videos have allowed me to confidently go from I can't keep plants alive to look at my house jungle. X
I started giving my snakeplant about 5 hours of direct morning sunlight, but behind a railing so there are intermittent shadows, and that baby took off! they do like light
I'm getting a snake plant for my room because I barely get any light in my room. But I do have grow lights which I will be installing in a couple weeks! I killed all my previous succulents so... I hope this one goes better.
My snake plant gets watered the first weekend of the month. It’s time to repot because the new ones are crowding the pot. I’m afraid to divide because the leaves are between 4’ and 5’ tall.
I've always grown all of my snake plants in terracotta. I love how many different varieties there. I want to collect most of them. I'm not a big fan of the whale fin variety.
I needed this I divided mine and they are ok. But they grow sooooo slow. I broke i leaf and after almost a year I have proof that it has roots and it like the new pot bc. it has a baby!
Hey Krystal 👋🏾 I love my two snake plants so much 😍 But, any tips on how to get rid of top soil mould & how to keep it away? I'm pretty sure i dont over water 🫤
Well dang I can keep succulents alive but snake plants drive me crazy. I just put both of mine outside under a tree and let mother nature water them. Looks like my rescue is doing alot better outside 😂
Always found it funny that it's called snake plant, while in my country we call it "lidah mertua", meaning "in-law's tongue" you know, cause its sharpy shape 😂 -Indonesia
There was a random uprooted snake plant where we moved and despite me being a beginner, decided it would still survive if I planted it again. Now a year after, have 4 more snake plants coming from that "mother plant". I also have 3 water propagated leaves with roots now after 2 weeks (coz I broke 1 healthy offspring while repotting). 🌱💚
Snake plant is a perfect ‘in pot’ plants. I have to get rid of a lot of snake plants in my garden because they grow a new one so fast, it’s out of controls 😂
I use miracle gro cactus soil and it’s so hydrophobic, it will float the whole plant out of the pot if I dunk it. If I top water, it spills out the top or runs down the sides. I’ll then proceed to DTH! but then I check the layer beneath and it’s bone dry! Anyone else have this issue? I find it irritating to have to dampen all this soil before potting.
My neighbor gave me a snake plant and asked if i could revive it.... I have no clue what im doing with it 🥲 but your videos have helped me, there was 3 different snakeplants in it so i seperated it... The roots were dry bone, and there wasnt many... So i tried to do my first propagation in water.. One has thankfully got new roots, i will leave it as it is and hope it doesn't rot... But the other two arnny doing any good... Theres no new roots and the base has become slightly rotten iv noticed that today... Right now im filtering the water again and hopefully placing them back in after theyv dried out a bit..... Any advice would be helpful bc im new to this whole thing thank you ☠️😭😃
I know you probably won't see this, but I was wondering if you have any experience with basil, as I have several that I need to re-pot but I'm not sure what soil they need. Was wondering if you'd be willing/able to give some tips or recommendations?
