Nice photo, Cena. Thanks for sharing it.
I have been waiting almost three years for mine to produce an offset, Just last week, I thought there was a bit of dried leaf on the soil. The next day, on looking closer, a baby was coming out! However, mine is on a stalk, coming out very close to the base of the mother plant. Is that unusual?

Elsie

Elsie, if you look in the middle photo, you can see the stalks winging out. These little guys are just boinging in the breeze with roots only bumping out now. The Trophy winner that I was speaking about (took Best Sans this year) exhibited the same growth pattern, but the babies were last years, and had popped some stilt roots into the soil. From my experience, and observation, I would say this is perfectly normal.

Oh, and be sure to spin the plant and take a look at the opposite side. Both parent plants I have seen sent out two pups!

But, I haven't even had this plant a year, so what do I know?

Too cute for words. This is one plant I'd love to add to my collection. Love it!

Cena- what does stilt mean? What a great looking plant! Diane

Diane, I am sure that you have seen houses, or pictures of houses, in the South where it floods and these houses are built way up on sticks, or a type of platform with stick legs? Well, those are stilts.

These plants will generate a baby, attatched by that stick going horizontal, THEN generate roots for that baby. This leaves the plant up in the air, (right now, without roots, as they haven't grown yet) with the root going down then into the dirt. If left potted like this, the baby looks like it is 'walking/sitting on stilts'!

Thanks for sharing Cena . . . That species is on my Christmas wish list.

To add to Cena's post, here's a pic of The Sansevieria Originally from Pinguone Ranch, Kenya (there's an excellent book devoted to the plants and animals from the Ranch) that was taken earlier this year, shortly after I repotted this plant.

I noticed the other day that the pups have lifted themselves up, as it were - where there was no daylight between the pups and the soil, there's now about 1/2", and who knows where it's going to stop?

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What a neat photo and plant. I must add this to my wish list also. I have S.transvaalensis that is also doing the same thing. How soon should I repot the baby that is growing on a stilt?
Gwen

Ponion, I'm not familiar with the species you write of... I guess you will have to go on your best instinct. Orchid growers rely on a "four inch" rule, where a new orchid baby must have four inches of root it has grown itself, whether one long root, or many smaller roots as long as they total four inches.

I would expect you need a mature enough plant to survive on it's own, and enough roots to ensure that. And not to be smart alecky or anything, but 'what's your hurry, heres your hat' (as my gram used to say)? Is there a pressing reason to rush the pup along? Is the parent sustaining it adequately? If so, don't rush things. Sometimes, that can be the worst for a new, baby plant. (Voice of Experience!)

Hi everyone. Pinguicula is a choice little species. It always grows on stilts, so a really perfect show plant would have moma and a number of babies all on stilt roots, sitting an inch or two above the soil. We generally pot up offsets at soil line though, and generally they stay at soil line though I see that Jeffrey has noticed them pushing themselves up. This species likes bright light and indoor conditions. I underwatered my plant (hard to do) and it suffered for this, but now is getting regular watering and is doing better.

Jon

Cena, thanks for your response. I have not been on-line for a while.
I did look on the other side of the plant, and there was another one coming up as well, just like you suggested.

Elsie