Josh,

The good news is your plant is ok. In nature, they get dead leaves and get to look more shabby. We like them to look 100% all the time. This happens when conditions change too rapidly and the plant drop leaves or parts of leaves, the older ones first or some times the weakest ones. Most of it looks great. Cut off the undesirable ones to improve looks. Should make a full recovery by fall.

Contact me if you end up loosing it.

Stush

Thanks, Stush, I appreciate it!

Josh

You might want to shield it from rain, sometimes that can bother the plant a little. Stush's advise is spot on. And your plant is blooming too!

Monocarpic. The mama can't make more leaves after blooming, (though may stay alive for years afterward,) only blooms once. I'm surprised it stays upright outside in that size pot (relative to the leaves.) Well grown!

Thanks!

Sans, we really only get freak rain showers here during the Summer....a very rare thing. I keep it beneath a patio table to protect it from the sun primarily.

Tiffany, it needs to be re-potted, for sure! It did blow over in the recent windstorms....those leaves are like sails. Thankfully, it's in a coarse mix with scoria and quartzite, so it's a fairly heavy pot for its size.

Josh

Josh,

I place my plastic pots inside a much larger heavier pot which keeps it up and from falling. One fall can give you a lot of leaf damage and it may not show up for a week or two. If you get leaf dropping, you can use Chop Sticks to prop them up or tie them.

Stush

Hi Josh,. Sorry about those leaves. I think the problem was from those low temps. Just cold damage. But the high temps now should force some nice new growth. I had some similar problems this spring, but now we are getting heat in Georgia and I think they will all look better before long.

Thanks, Barb, I think you're right....probably the cold damage just now expressing itself months later. There's some new growth coming in, so I'll probably trim off the ugly parts as Stush suggested.

Stush, this seems to be a stiff cultivar. I've never noticed drooping leaves; always very erect.

Josh

I had the same problem with a BS about 1 year ago. At the time I thought maybe it was cross-contaminated by some sort of fungus because a new dwarf sansevieria I'd bought had the same spots deep in the center. The problem was the orange spots kept appearing lower and lower on the BS and eventually the rhizome was being eaten away.

I cut my losses and threw out all but two clumps which showed no signs of infection. I repotted these in a new pot. They're doing fine but don't seem to be increasing in size. That reminds me, I should go check out some big box stores to see if I can find replacements for some of the sans I've lost....

Well, the plant didn't die, and everything turned out all right. The bloom was nice. And now the new growth is pushing up. Some of the old clumps are growing new leaves, too. Nights are beginning to cool, so I'll have to start bringing this one indoors.

Josh

Thanks, Stush!

I think there are at least three pups, but I couldn't get a very good picture of the ones hiding below the front edge of the container. I agree with you that I should keep this neat little family together - I don't want to push my luck attempting to separate them. I'll probably go just slightly larger with the container.

Josh