Let pups make fuller plant?
Sarah Campbell
4 years ago
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christine 5b
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Mother plant and lots of pups
Comments (3)You can cut the pups if you wish. Then again, if mom dies, then you may loose any future generations. Even though more than likely a pup will emerge from a plant that no longer lives from the corm. Usually, its best to keep one daughter and one granddaughter. The rest can be cut to soil level. The pups can also be cut away using some of the mother corm and planted in a new pot. Letting the pups gain a height of at least a foot before detaching from the mother if you desire to save the pups and let connie have them. LOL!!! If mother has stopped growing, and the babies are growing, then cutting the babies will not spur mom to start growing. Bringing the plant indoors, and having 12 hours of sunlight has caused mom to kinda take a nap if you would. If you cut the babies, she will just expense more energy trying to make more pups. A banana plant has one season(8 to 10 months) to not only grow at lightening speed, they must spend huge amounts of energy growing fruit, and making pups for the next season. The bananas have no idea that we humans are trying to save mom for the next year when we set them outside. If mom knew this, she would not bother making babies all the time. Mama Banana is thinking I must hurry up and make babies and fruit so I can die....See MorePups everywhere! - Pot sizes?
Comments (2)They are thriving, for sure, and I'm happy that I seem to be treating them right. I am just surprised at how aggressive they are about multiplying. I guess my question is whether or not it would be worthwhile to divide and "pot down" to discourage pups. I'd just like to have a 1 healthy bird's nest in the pot, rather than 5 crushing each other. The two plants at very nearly their current size were in a 4" pot. If I divide, I am considering putting them back into 4" pots. (The parent plants are probably 2"-2.5" wide at the base, 6" wide at the crown, 5" tall.) If I do this, can I expect the mama plants to behave and stop pupping, or will even this likely continue multiplying no matter what I do as long as they are healthy?...See MoreI want to make my pup a vegetarian/vegan...any suggestions?
Comments (60)Thanks :) But I knew the translation....it's just that I find it rather irritating when people ask for help and it takes me (and others) 2-3 times as long to figure out what they are saying! I never got the feeling that English was this person's 2nd language. It just doesn't seem that way. It seems like it's a hoax - this poster will go from saying something like: "I m jus gona raise him as if its my baby...n im sure il do everythin to keep him healthy...n wid al our luv n care.." And then will say: "This is absolutely my last comment on this...I am not going to give my puppy away...I just said that I would do it in case I see any starts to suffer and before he creates a bond so that it is easy for him to move on...not get him to a stage where he is a total goner". That sounds like 2 different people. This is a hoax....See MoreSansevieria plant and babies (pups)
Comments (2)If re-potting the whole don't go into too big a pot. These plants like being more or less root bound, so they dry out better in between waterings, so only go up the next size pot. If it is only slightly root bound, maybe you should wait. If the pups are tight against the pot, giving them a little extra room is probably best. Good luck and enjoy the Sansevieria, they are great plants to have and grow. Oh, all ways let these guys dry out a bit before watering. In winter they rot very easily if there is too much moisture in the soil, hot summer time they tolerate moisture much better as they are growing. Fred...See Morerhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
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