How to Repot a Snake Plant

[@JazzMeUinFLUSA]

My snake plant is growing wild outside. It occupies our front yard.😀😉

[@charliebrown9188]

I'm so jealous, I have to keep mine in pots indoors 🙂

[@PansyBrown-mg8br]

Thank you it was very informative,

[@knightque]

❤thank you for the step by step tutorial I did an amazing job. I don’t have the right pots yet but I will by next week

[@marciajohnson1825]

Hey! A question. What if I don't want more individual Snake Plants? Is it ok to repot my plant into a bigger pot with mother AND baby plants? My pot is absolutely overcrowded, and its plastic pot is now completely out of shape from bulging everywhere with babies. I will separate just one baby plant as a present for my SIL but apart from that, I would like to keep my plant as full as it is. Will that hurt the mother plant eventually? Enjoyed this video, very straightforward and to the point. New UK subbie here btw!

[@charliebrown9188]

You can simply pot it up 1 size or 2. The danger with that is that at some point in the future it will become very unmanageable as every few years you will have to increase the size of your pot. Alternatively you can divide it and give some away and plant a few for yourself in one pot. its good to do that at some point to avoid the centre of the plant to choke itself. Most plant growers will plant 2 or 3 individual plants in one pot so it looks bigger, over the years what we think is one plant and was actually 2 or 3 mothers become a rather crowded family.

[@marciajohnson1825]

@@charliebrown9188 ok understood. It was already very full when I purchased it tbh. Since then (a good few years ago now) It has flourished so much, and has more than doubled in the number of babies as well as height. I can virtually see what you mean re eventual choking off in the middle of the pot because of the crowding that's happening all around the edges. Thank you very much for responding 😊

[@charliebrown9188]

@@marciajohnson1825 Its a pleasure. Last year I went a little mad and bought several plants, one had broad yellow stripes along the side, one had thin stripes, one was dark green, one was grey green ... you can see the mad pattern, right? Each had three plants which I separate, also I keep bringing home leaves that break off from work - I'm lucky to work in a DIY shop with a garden centre - as a result I now must have at least 15 mature individual plants and as many pups from propagations. I keep them in as small pots as possible in case I go heavy on the water lol and I'm enjoying watching each plant develop. I'm also wanting to see how tall they grow over time. I won't be able to keep them all as I have a small 1bedroom flat with aprox 400 houseplants 🙂 A youtuber called Plantering suggested to let snake plants grow instead of dividing them every 5 minutes to allow them to reach their max in height, which is what you did, and what I want to try. my aim is to let them grow from one single plant, or one single division. good luck :-)

[@marciajohnson1825]

Very interesting.. Please keep us posted re how your plants are doing.

[@charliebrown9188]

@@marciajohnson1825I might not remember, I will if I do, thank you for asking :-)

[@ayanacooper]

Definitely helped thanks

[@JazzMeUinFLUSA]

Thanks for the tips.

[@dougkidd4799]

Yes, very cool. I think i subscribe to your fish sight to. Lots of good information

[@AmourEtLiberte888]

Thank you!

[@sandracohen8481]

I am using a plastic pot because a clay pot would be too heavy. Do I need to put a coffee filter or pebbles in the bottom of the new pot Thank you

[@toyastable7047]

Do I remove the babies?

[@dimask55]

can we cut the root ?

[@christinegatti5688]

Thank you guys for the video. Around how much do you guys charge for baby snake plant?

[@charliebrown9188]

I'd happily give you some if you lived close by in SE UK, they are so darn easy to propagate, just take some time to grow and mature.

[@christinegatti5688]

@@charliebrown9188 Thank you so much! That is so kind of you to offer as well. I would love to have one of your babies and I could send you one of mine. I have been doing some experiments myself and I have a ton of cuties! I live in Florida and they grow pretty well here.

[@charliebrown9188]

@@christinegatti5688 I bet you can even grow your sans in the garden. Its indoors only for me. I'm lucky that I work in garden centre, I have access to the fall offs 😊😊

[@christinegatti5688]

@@charliebrown9188 you are so fortunate to have such a great job!

[@charliebrown9188]

@@christinegatti5688Yes indeed Christine, but my company only sells the very standard fast sellers, I ordered a lot of plants through the internet; in the last 2 years one Pothos N'Joy has become 10, I'm avoiding propagating the other 8/9 Pothos too much lol One Tradescantia has become 5 not counting the ones I gave away and i have severaal varieties... the list is endless, I have in excess of 400 houseplants and I only have a 1bedroom flat. I also have 10 small aquariums with fish obviously and lots of aqautic plants too - needless to say 🙂... As a result, I have plants and fish in every single room of my home. I even have some bed linen with plant prints 🙈 I refuse to seek therapy, this is a lovely addiction. In the garden I try to grow a few edibles too.

[@rogetoaban288]

What is the ratio of the potting mix u use for repotting.

[@MoreHouseplantTherapy]

For this plant? A fairly dry mix! Maybe half potting soil and half cactus mix

[@rew2123]

Can you tell me what soil mix you use?

[@charliebrown9188]

A cactus mix will do perfectly, alternatively mix 50/50 sand and multipurpose compost (or potting soil in america) the latter works very well for me.

[@charliebrown9188]

Why do you keep calling a terracotta pot: "stone pot"?

[@MoreHouseplantTherapy]

Because they’re made of clay. Which is a stone / rock

[@charliebrown9188]

@@MoreHouseplantTherapy 🤔 I think not... there is a lot more to that... I'll just put my keypad away and 🤐

[@Adeline9418]

@@MoreHouseplantTherapy clay is not stone. It's clay. Unsubscribing.

[@deebennett7912]

@@charliebrown9188 Thank you for that.

[@deebennett7912]

@@Adeline9418 Thanks for that info.