That's a beautiful plant. Show us some more pictures as the new spike grows.

Beautiful specimen! How tall is this plant? I'm wondering if the offset will be bigger than the parent. Also, is this plant grown indoors?

Fernwood seems to be the most common sans used in the so-called 'Mikado' style of planting where wholesalers root many leaves in a pot and sell as a design element for a table or as an 'air cleaning' plant. Unfortunately the rooted leaves eventually produce plants and ruin the 'design'. I've also seen sansevieria sulcata and cylindrica used in Mikado plantings.

Russ

HI BARB!

Russ

Hi Russ. All my plants are inside now, cooler weather is forcast.

I got this this plant about a year ago. Who knows where it was grown (indoor or outdoor), but it was indoor when I bought it and been indoor since then as well. It's flowered and developed this new growth over the year. The plant reaches my hip, so about 3-feet from the ground. A bit too big for a table top ;)

Its a single plant (not a bunch of rooted leaves).

Yes Russ, and I also believe S. bacularis is often offered for sale as Mikado.

Jweingarten, you're doing a good job in growing this sans, very well grown. Do you have other sans? The Mikado 'technique' looks much different than your single plant, just individual leaves sticking up out of a pot, I just mentioned it since Fernwood leaves are most commonly used.

Liberyx, bacularis is the 'new' name for sulcata. I generally use old names since validity of rationale in changing some of the names is highly questionable. Many of the assumptions made in arguments for changing are a far stretch to me, particularly true with patens. Also, most folks seem to be more familiar with the old names than new.

Russ

Thanks Russ! Any advice is appreciated.

I have a trifasciata that I got recently for my office. I broke off a chunk for my wife's office as well. So far, it is doing well with only fluorescent lights. I have a couple other plants I cloned that I plan to bring to my office, but I'm less confident they will survive even with 24/7 overhead fluorescents (red-tip jade, crosby compact, pothos, ivy).

I love it! It's so well grown and the spike adds character

I'm really surprised that your Fernwood is so tall. I have just seen younger, shorter plants.

I really love this plant. So I bought a plant on ebay it was called mikado. It looked like cartoon hair little spikes in a small hydroponic basket. I thought it was a dwarf type of fernwood. So mikado is just type of planting? How will i ever know what this is. I guess time will tell. I hope whatever I have turns out half as nice as your plant. Rob

Thanks all! I dig these plants too. Very easy to care for and seems to like the gritty mix. I think sometimes these plants don't grow very big because people buy them for low-light environments. They will survive, but not grow. Also, people damage the tips of the plant, then I think they stop growing.

Jweingarden, I doubt the succulents you mentioned will do well in that environment, the pothos should be fine. If the ivy is English ivy, I'm not confident it will fare well either. I don't grow it well even outside in good humidity, but many growers do like it for indoor foliage.

Rob, yes Mikado is a style of planting, not the name of a sans. If you bought the product at the Ebay site you highlighted, those leaves are indeed Fernwood. The leaves will eventually produce offsets and you'll have 1 to 3 plants per leaf. You'll need to separate them at some point, not necessarily individually but perhaps several to a pot.

Russ

Russ - I think your right about the Jade. They are just cuttings I'd give away anyway ;) so why not try to spruce up my office? I have a 2 or 3 foot tall jade and a foot tall crosby compact at home. Those pothos will grow in a closet!

The ivy is not the type with the really small leaves - it has larger leaves and grows all over Pittsburgh. It grows wild in my backyard and I rooted the cuttings from Ivy growing the the alley! I have some growing on my liquor bar, but cut some more to see if it would last in my office. If it doesn't, no biggie.

I just started giving my plants some Dyna Gro 003 Pro Tekt, which I've heard can help with low-light. We will see if that makes a difference...

Understood on the succulents, good idea to treat them like annuals... temporary plants for a season. Algerian Ivy comes to mind from your description, but I'm way out of my element with ivys.

Interesting about the Dyna Gro, keep me posted on your thoughts about it if you see any results. Where did you get this? Is it offered at Home Depot/Lowe's?

Russ

I buy Dyna Gro online. Ebay or Amazon depending on price. The Dyna Gro Foliage Pro fertilizer is great - means I don't have to add calcium to my miracle grow. The pro-tekt throws off the 312 balance of the foliage pro, but it supposedly makes the plant a bit more sturdy and facilitates photosynthesis.

Russ: bacularis is the 'new' name for sulcata.

Yes, of course, now I remember. Thank you.

Thanks jweingarden, I'll try to find the Dyna Gro locally, I rarely order anything online.

No problem Liberyx, good to see you here. How are your sans doing? Too bad you lost Ernst Specks' sans source in Germany, I didn't have direct access to him but I imagine European sans collectors are lamenting his closing of the nursery. I do have some sans from Specks that I was able to get through trading with my friend Staszek in Warsaw, with whom I lost contact some years ago. I guess you still have Brookside in France.

Russ

Hi Russ, I am here every
day but I don’t ‘talk’ much :)

Thanks, my sans are fine, some new
pups and no losses.

I am not that big collector
because of lack of space in my apartment, but Ernst Specks' nursery was a kind of standard market
here. And yes, we
have Brookside yet…

Understood on lack of space, it's a common problem with many growers. The interest is there but the window space is limiting.

Russ

I hope you don't compromise on those windows and growing space at your new home. My life-interest is horticulture and I bought 1.5 acres two decades ago so I could have a big shadehouse and all the outside growing room I might need.

Russ

Good call Russ. I pick up too many hobbies and each takes up space, so I have to compromise. Woodworking (especially instruments), electronics (especially old amps), and playing music might take precedence.

Sounds like very interesting hobbies! So for you a big air conditioned garage might be the priority in the new hacienda. With lots of south-facing windows, of course.

Russ