So what is the Unsettling News?

Very nice....your posts always intrigue me! :) Is that a Gasteria to the left of the Sans? It's huge!

Nancy

TW,

Unsettling as in the plant being unsettled in the pic - the next time you see it, it will be in something not completely different, but with friends and benefits, too.

Hi Nancy,

Do they now? Well, that pleases me to no end. Yes, that's a Gasteria, a cross made by Peg Spaete - she calls it 'Peg's Big Boy', but I don't know who the parents are. I'll get another shot of it for us, shall I? OK, just after this cloudburst is done (the 87th time this summer it's rained).

TW,

This is what I was getting at - in the interests of having fewer total pots, I'm tripling up.

Here's a closer picture of the get-together.

Your combo pot looks great! I am inspired to try this also.

Elsie

Peg's big boy looks very much like a species that I have. That is a baby and it will grow much larger if given the room to do so. Norma

Connsidering that your are in Canada, the plants look much better then I thought they would. That Gasteria will get huge if you let it. Can you receive seeds Jeff, I have some interesting seeds of Gasteria hybrids? Norma

Combining these three sansevieria in a single pot is somewhat submental as sansevieria don't take well by combining species which produce offsets and others producing a runner or stoloniferous offset. You'll definitely have problems when one shoot shish-kabobs through one that just offsets regularly.
Imagine roots entwined as well.
Oh my, Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

Jeff,

Your Sans. all look great, that S. Halli is quite handsome.

If you're asking me about the fertilizer, I guess that'd be OK, I tend to forget to fertilize my Sans altogether, hum, you've got me thinking now.

I've got old, liquid MG to dilute & powdered versions of Schultz (balanced) & Peters (Bloom buster). I've even got Osmocote (tiny pellets of time-released fertilizer.)

Gee that's just from memory, not home to check, but wait, I've also got Schultz (liquid) C&S. Didn't realize I've got such a Smorgasboard of fertilizers, yikes!

Guess I better fertilize 'em all this week, while it's still hot, thanks for the reminder!

Miracle Grow will amount to certain death of your sansevierias over long term use. If you have been using Miracle Grow for a while you will notice some brown crud developing around teh drain holes and sometimes at the base of your pot. this is an indication that this is the level of tpoxic salt build up that has been accumulating in your pots. If your brown crud level is half way up the pot. This is the reason why your plants have not responded to fertilizers or perhaps have floppy leaves or poor growth spurts. What once grew very well, will now appear that the plant is difficult to grow now.

At this point, you will need to repot and shake off the excess soil (salt) off the roots and may even need a trim to eliminate this salt build up in the roots themselves.
Soaking in plain water and then allowing the roots and stems to dry before repotting in fresh soil and avoid using Miracle grow altogether.

I have been Miracle Grow free for thirty years now so I don't have any examples of this brown crud salt ring to show you.

RFG,

Read it again, I said I haven't fertilized my Sans. at all, nor used MG on them. While I appreciate you seem to be trying to help, thanks but nothing is broken, so nothing needs fixing, at least if you're speaking to me.

Jeff, this is getting ridiculous, & you know I don't mean YOU.

K

Karen,

So after a thunder, lightning and near-torrential downpour at dusk yesterday (it was wonderful, and will allow me to not water for about a week), I was thinking of fertilizing (using the diluted MG). I'm thinking I need to repot one Sans (not planted with the other three, the one that's like 'Moonshine') in a looser mix - but you know Sans - they're very forgiving in almost whatever soil they're in). Anyway, that's how I think I'll celebrate Thursday.

Well, that's your call, I guess. Reminds me I think I'll try to give my Sans. some C&S fertilizer this weekend.

Thunder & lightening & downpours, oh my! How are you enjoying having REAL weather vs. those lovely but always same SD blue skies. I recall you were kinda startled when we got caught in a (loud) thunderstorm down in Soho (don't know if you remember).

All three plants are doing fine - the S. suffruticosa has pupped (or maybe it was there when I planted it, but it seems to have gotten larger). I dare not disturb my experiment in growing plants in an endomorphic manner, as it appears they're doing OK (I mean, what does a sick Sans look like? I guess I'd know it if I saw one but I've never had one myself) and, in spite of the ending of the season not too long in the distance (and things cooling down overall) the plants are beginning to grow again.

RFG,

pots are cheap, but for most of us space is very limited. I need to keep all my plants inside, at least in the winter, and I - and many others - have simply not space enough to keep every plant in a 30-cm-pot. Maroever, if you repot, you have to sort out the roots anyway, so what? I think it is a very feasible way to save space.

Helli

Helli,

One of the first lessons I learned on the Internet was to not feed a troll. Now, obviously I haven't listened to my own suggestion, but I'm hoping you can - please do not feed the troll. His ignorance is rather uncommon, though, because he keeps getting more obnoxious when he's wrong.

Helli,

I checked this morning and there are two new pups on the S. suffruticosa. I guess I'm not killing it yet....

Atta boy Jeff, good for you! We'll look forward to more pix when they get a bit bigger.

Karen,

Get a little bigger - they're getting so large it's submentally upsetting.

To wit:

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I moved the pot of plants today, and would you believe there are four, I wrote four!, offsets to the spiral-formed S. suffruticosa today, this second day of autumn weather here in the Interior. Still, I think it might be a year or two before I see an offset off of the S. hallii. The S. patens/Ed Eby/Koko Crater nomenclaturalcraptastic plant took about two years, too, but I'll put that down to my inattention to it for too long a time. Anyway, I knew you were all dying to know, and I'll get some pictures soon of the offsets - we might need this evidence in Das Kourt NomenKlatura.

Well Hi there,

I literally LOLed at "nomenclaturalcraptastic" - I kind of like saying it out loud.

I only just saw this today, those little pups are great, quite a photo too, well done! You've turned into quite the photographer (I envy you that, I haven't yet investigated the macro features of my camera).

Don't remember if I asked you this before, but are those rocks just topdressing, or are you actually growing them in rocks all the way down?

Hi Karen,

It's the camera.....and that's just top-dressing (a little large, granted, but there you have it). Thanks, though, and I owe some pictures here I see of the S. suffruticosa with its ever-expanding pup family.