how to get a snake plant to grow quicker and look full

this Saria Whitney and I believe the snake plant class has been changed to deren is quite literally busting out of the spt there are a number of New Growth points as well as uh some roots on top of the soil so it's definitely needing to be repotted today I'm going to show you how to get a fuller snake plant and there's basically two ways of doing that one providing the appropriate or proper care for this plant and combining house plants it's a nice way to get a fuller plant so I'm going to show both methods in this video as well as how to propagate this plant now despite being told that these are low light plants or that they can thrive in low light they actually like a lot of light or a bright location and that's actually the secret to getting them to grow faster they prefer a very bright location and in some cases they can actually tolerate uh direct silent for a few hours I have mine on the floor just below a self facing window and it gets uh direct sunlight you can see right here these leaves are starting to turn yellow or they're getting bleached uh this can be a sign of that they're receiving too much light so after I repot this plant today I'm actually going to pull it back about a foot or so and you can see it's basically just the tips uh that are turning yellow the rest of the plant looks really healthy now if you don't have good natural sunlight you can always add a grite and there's many different options out there and styles depending on your budget and I count the rapid growth or the fast growth with this one due to the higher light I know this one's been propagated about two or three times and it just continues to put out New Growth now for soil it's pretty simple you just want to make sure that it is in something very well draining but what does that actually mean there's no real SE to a well- draining mix I know there's different recipes out there but uh you just want to make sure that it isn't like a very heavy regular potting soil that's too heavy it retains too much moisture for too long you can add things like uh peite orchid bark um pomus all those uh sort of uh amendments and you can also add sand I'm going to use this bird's nest s here to explain watering now we're all guilty of this including myself we are terrified to overwater these house LS but we are actually underwatering them now the problem with overwatering is most times you don't have it in a proper soil mixture so you have it in just a regular potting soil that is meant to retain moisture and then in combination with not enough light then these plants stay wet for too long and those roots will uh end up rotting so that's the issue with root rot so if you have it in a proper soil and you give it sufficient light then you should never have a problem with watering it's not about the amount of water it's about the soil type you can see it's now starting to come out the bottom so that is typically what you want to see um when you give it water is it just uh basically going right through from the top out the bottom of the drain hole and that's one thing that I always recommend as well having a pot with a sufficient sized drain hole um just so it can drain out any excess water I'm just going to give it some more water see if it freely comes out the bottom again it should just be flowing out like that now just another couple cou quick things uh these plants they're not really heavy feeders so if you fertilize maybe once a month that will be absolutely fine I tend to uh dilute my fertilizer to a very small amount and then I will fertilize with each watering that's just because I have so many house plants it's tough for me to remember which ones actually got fertilizer so I just use a small amount diluted in water with each watering um other than that I really haven't had any issues with pests um but you just want to make sure that you consistently clean off these leaves because they can uh get pretty dusty and dirty there are two ways to propagate this plant you can take an individual leaf cutting or you can separate these little offshoots or pups uh so it does send out a horizontal ryome and then it pushes out a new growth point uh like I said I've propagated these in the past so I basically took um one of these offshoots and I've traded it for other plants um you can also make new plants for yourself um just by uh slicing the ryome which I'll show you here in a second first I'm going to take this leaf cutting and I'll be honest it's actually quite satisfying to see The Roots as well as the new growth point um when you take a leaf cutting but a little word of warning here it does take a long time uh even to see just small growth I think it takes about a year and a half I have made a video about this in the past I'll leave it up in the top corner here just so you can see the entire process it's basically an update video um with the roots and all that but what you want to do and I'm going to use this kind of faded Leaf here is take a um either some pruning shears or I have this utility knife and just slice off the leaf as close as you can to the part of the stem so that you get a a section of leaf like this now you can just simply let this callus over and stick it in a container or water now if you want to make multiple plants all you have to do is just cut it up into sections so just take little cuttings like this now the thing about this method is that you have to make sure that you have the bottom portion facing the bottom or placing this in water and this one on top if you have it upside down like this as far as I know you're you're not going to get roots from here it's only going to be from the bottom so you just want to make sure that you have the uh plant in the correct orientation so I just like to lay it out like that now sometimes you will see people cut uh a v-shaped notch into the bottom like that now the only reason I can find online to the reason for this is it increases the surface area but in my experience it also prevents all the roots from being crushed when you place it in a container or water like that otherwise it doesn't really affect the root development you'll just have some squished roots on the flat portion and you'll have some uh nice Roots just kind of pking through on the v- notched versions and like I said uh seeing all the roots as well as the new growth point specifically the new growth point I just I think it's so cool how it grows from literally an edge of a leaf into an entire new plant now the problem with this sort of propagation if you have a variegated plant like the uh sansar Whitney um in my experience as it grows it basically loses that variegation and reverts back to what the original plant is so if you want to maintain variegation you're going to have to do it by the division method and I guess the last thing about um this sort of propagation or single leaf propagation is I've only ever done it in water I do not know how it propagates if I was just to stick it in soil uh like that um so yeah if you've ever done just uh soil propagation with these let me know if it does work I feel like it's going to get very dehydrated uh fairly quick especially with this one here and I think I forgot to mention that with watering if you are concerned about knowing when to water you'll basically see some wrinkles along the stem here so that's a good Telltale sign that your plant is underwatered or that it needs watered when you start to see a bunch of wrinkles on the stem the soil is very dry and you don't remember the last time you actually water the plant uh so if you see those signs definitely give it a good thorough soaking okay now I'm going to take this out of the pot like it is solid in here and you can see that uh it's got some indentations on there so this like I said is uh literally trying to bust out of this pot holy cow I might actually have to break this one okay well it's broken already so I'm just going to snap this and cut through cuz this thing is just holy cow look at this ryome look at that it just like snakes along the soil and then it pops up when it feels like that's a good spot so I'm just going to tear this pot look at these roots oh there's another growth point this is the ryome uh it'll stem from uh one of the I guess some other plants it'll push out this little ryome and when it finds a nice area to pop out um then you'll get new growth this one's got two two ryms Popp through I'm going to leave these ones attached to their parent plant but I'm going to try and isolate where this one comes from I don't know if you can see it but right there there's that orange ryone piece so I'm just going to take my utility knife and just slice that like that until it's all the way through and then you can just break it [Applause] apart I heard a few more snaps so there now it is divided and I just broke off the ryome from this one right here but this uh in itself can be another plant as well because it has a sufficient root system like that so you can plant this in the pot which I'm going to do and same with this one it's got a little uh rise on PO popping through there as well and here is the remaining chunk um it's got three offshoots so again you can you can cut this one off the main plant and propagate it however you want so I'm just going to slice that one through and then divide it like that so now you have an individual cutting like this uh you have multiple individual cuting now I have no way of proving this other than just from experience but I've read that if you separate these cuttings here as well they grow much faster because they want to push out New Growth um so yeah propagation apparently makes these grow faster as well when you divide them cuz they they just want to push out new uh growth points I have another one here this is the Moonshine or Moonlight it's just got some um lighter variegation on it this one just wants to fall out of the pot so uh the soil is extremely dry it's got some Dead Leaves there as well so I'm just going to clean this one up a little bit here's a dead dying Leaf in there just pull that out um this one's all busted up here as well so it's taken a few Falls over the last uh number of months it's tipped out of the pot it's been knocked over by the dogs so um not much roots on this one so and you can see there's not much um chunkiness oh it's getting a new Ro Point um there's a little risone popping through um it's not in a chunky mix so it may have had root Rod at some point cuz it's got a very very small root system so I'm just trying to knock that away as much as I can okay here's the new pot um I just have a little Stone in the bottom just covering the the drain hole there just so it doesn't uh all the soil doesn't flow out so it's a much larger pot now I'm just going to size up all these cuting here first before I add soil um I just want to see if there is enough room for the smaller little birds nest s area so I'm just going to put that right there and I'm going to add these ones in so um I think I will leave it out for now because that looks pretty good um it looks nice and full and there is enough room on uh the sides for the plants to expand uh a little bit more so I don't want to just Jam everything in there uh and then have uh no ability for uh the plant to push out New Growth points so I think I'm going to leave it as is but I am going to add uh obviously some soil into the bottom and then I'll pot these up so this this is what I'm using for soil um I don't have a ratio I basically just grabbed a couple scoops of the fox farm potting soil there's some orchid bark I did have a kind of premixed sand and soil mixture as well so there is sand I added a little bit of perlite so this is what my uh soil consistent or my soil mixture looks like um it should be well draining there's lots of soil amendments in here so um yeah there's no special um like I said recipe just throw some stuff in there some orchid bark some peite with some potting soil tropical potting soil and you should be good to go now I'm just going to put some of this in the bottom of the container here first you obviously don't want to pot these uh plants too deep so I'm just going to start arranging these cuting something like that this one needs to go down a bit that's a it's got a lot more soil so I'm just going to dig some of this up here first I'm going to add this one in I'm just going to put some of that soil back this one can go right up against the edge like that and then the rest can go around this one CU they're not as deep then this one I can put in there so just to show you how deep I'm actually planting these um just something like that so I'm going to add the soil to just above where the old roots are making sure they're all tucked in there like that I'm going to put that cutting right there just so that growth point is slightly above the soil now this guy hopefully it doesn't block your view I'm just going to put right there and then this last one I'm going to stick right there now I'm going to hold all of these together and I'm just going to add a little bit of soil here just to help settle this one um the Moonshine or whatever it's called just wants to just wants to tip over so I just want to add some soil in there just to help kind of pack that down a little bit and I'm just holding the leaves from the top here and I just going to add soil just around the sides and just lightly packing it down I'm just going to finish with a little bit of a smaller cup just so I can get in to these tougher spots here and then I can use the pencil to poke down any soil around the edges of the pot and even in the middle you can just kind of push the soil around to where you need it make sure it's all packed down and it's going to stay upright this one's a little floppy just because of how tall this cutting is so I'm going to add a bunch of soil around the sides here and just pack it down there a little bit of a gap on this side over here I'm going to take this over to the shower here give the leaves a good spray off just so that um they are nice and clean and then that will help settle the soil here as well there I think that's pretty well it okay here is the finished product I just took it over to the shower to spray off the leaves of any dust and dirt and all that kind of stuff as well as just to help settle the soil and then as a little experiment I just added those uh two little uh Leaf cuting into the soil just to see if if soil propagation works as well but otherwise I think that's going to be pretty much it I hope this helps you get a fuller snake plant not only from care but uh other options like combining house plants into this nice full pot I think it looks absolutely fantastic so uh thanks for watching I always appreciate the support take care everyone bye

Channel: Everything Plants

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Keywords: everything plants, indoor plants, houseplants, faster snake plant growth, snake plant care

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Length: 15min 7sec (907 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 22 2023