nice plant.

Peat is a fast growth medium, cheap and easy to use/water/fertilize, at least for a while. Perhaps leaves/offsets were put directly into the pot that you bought it in and they rooted from there into the rootbound-and-rarin'-to-go plant you now have.

Lost some roots in the process, inevitable, given the hardened off peat ball. Didn't mean to, but ended up leaving it soaking over night; hope that wasn't too much.

I get it about the peat Jeff, what I don't get is why sell a plant so small & young. What's their hurry, where's the fire? Why not wait 'til it's a bit bigger before selling it?

Price...try to sell a smaller plant at lower price, demand is more. Probably that is why there are such lots of freshly rooted sansevieria leaves in the market, handsomely fitted into pots. Personally I don't think of this as a full quality plant - but these "arrangements" are very inexpensive and therefore popular.

Time is money, Karen, and space presumably being at a premium, space is money, too.

A lot of folks would rather spend a little money on a smaller pot size and get more plants than say a six inch or eight inch mature plant. I remember when you could spend 50 cents to a dollar for a starter ponytail palm and a couple bucks for a starter staghorn fern. Give them 20 years or so and you get a huge plant that would be very expensive to buy.

ponytail palm surrounded by other houseplants in 2017. Started as a quarter sized little bulbous plant.

Staghorn fern winter 2017 - too large to hang anymore.

Like others have said, time is money. The less time and growing materials the grower can use, the better for them. Smaller pots are also more appealing/impulse buying than bigger pots for a lot of people.

bought 2 kn 2 knch pot half moon bay nursery CA, dokng great! Where ks the best onlkne place to buy! Sorry problem wkth keyboard

Marisa, I only see the tiny pots in person, don't know about online, sorry.

Well I just lost this guy, perhaps to overwatering. Its coloring got weird, I was undecided abt too dry vs too wet. I chose wrong & watered a bit, outer leaves starting crashing. I took those off too & I found the center collapsing & w/ a bit of mealy bugs. I just tossed the remnants, oh well.

Sorry to hear that Got mkne home and put them on kn wkndow they opened up havent transplanted them yet. We lkve by coast alot of foggy days wkndow faces east so we wkll see