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Author Garden: Snake Plant Erma Gardener Member # 1568 posted                       My Snake Plant is almost 20 years old, I really need to septerate it, it's in a 18"pot the tallest leave is 60" they drop down from there. It blooms every year with at least 6 flower spikes. I really don't know how to septerate it . Hope some one can help. Erma Plants: 4 | From: Kinsman,Ohio | Registered: Oct 2003  |  Seeded: 63.188.129.122 catlover The Cheetah! Member # 654 posted                       Erma welcome to The Garden Helper!!! Glad to have you onboard. I am a new gardener so can't give you any info. but there should be someone on within a few days to answer your question. Feel free to browse around the site and chime in whenever you desire. More the merrier around here. There are some great gardeners here and I can't even begin to tell you how much they have helped me! While we are waiting for someone to answer your question I was just curious as to what other kind of plants you have? Catlover (just love this little guy) * * * * Plants: 7129 | From: California | Registered: Mar 2003  |  Seeded: 68.66.244.5 Erma Gardener Member # 1568 posted                       I have a Panda plant(it's dying don't know why)also a large Palm and a large Philodendron. Plants: 4 | From: Kinsman,Ohio | Registered: Oct 2003  |  Seeded: 63.188.0.252 Will Creed guest posted                 Hi Erma, I'm not sure why you want to divide your thriving snake plant. As with surgery, root division is not without risk. In addition, snake plants thrive and flower when very potbound. Nonetheless, the easiest way to divide it is to pull it from its pot and use a long, sharp knife to slice right through the middle of the rootball, from top to bottom. Repot the sections into the smallest pots you cane squeeze them into. Seeded: 24.239.134.109 catlover The Cheetah! Member # 654 posted                       Wow Will you answered fast! Erma that is a long time to have your snake plant....must be doing something right to last that long. If you don't mind my asking why are you dividing it? For people who don't know what a Panda plant is (like myself) here is a site I found with a picture. http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Crassulaceae/Kalanchoe_tomentosa.html Not that I will be able to answer this but maybe someone else can.....what are the symptoms of your poor Panda plant? Bill (head guru of this site) says I am a cactophile. I have over 60 cactii now (yes Bill, I got a few more ) and a lot of succulents as well.....and the worst part is I am still looking for more that I don't have. Catlover * * * * Plants: 7129 | From: California | Registered: Mar 2003  |  Seeded: 68.66.244.5 Erma Gardener Member # 1568 posted                       I need to divied it or repot it as it seens to have eaten all the soil. I would rather repot but I'm having a hard time finding a 20" pot. As for the Panda it just seens to be drying up. I water and it dosen't help. Anyway thanks for your help, maybe I'll just keep looking for a bigger pot. Erma Plants: 4 | From: Kinsman,Ohio | Registered: Oct 2003  |  Seeded: 65.179.72.90 Bill The Garden Helper Member # 1 posted                       Hi Erma, In regard to your Panda plant, it is a bit hard to diagnose the problem without examining the plant, it's size and it's growing conditions. A Panda plant is a succulent, but it is also a Kalanchoe which doesn't like to get too dried out before re-watering. The first thing I would do is to unpot the plant and examine the root system, and if the roots seem healthy, repot the plant in some fresh, humousy soil. If the roots are unhealthy or non existent, treat the entire plant as a cutting, cutting the stem back to healthy tissue... Pandas are very easy to propagate by either tip or leaf cuttings. You could cut the top of the plant, remove the lower leaves, then allow the cutting to sit in the air for 2 days to allow the cut to "callous" over. Insert the cutting (covering at least 2-3 leaf nodes) into fresh soil (with about 25% vermiculite added) Keep the potting mix slightly moist. The cutting should be putting out new roots in 3-4 weeks if it is kept at about 70-75 degrees. You can also root any healthy leaves that were removed from the plant by inserting the base of the leaf about 1/4 inch into potting soil, vermiculite or sand. (Keep the leaf upright in the cutting tray... if it lays on the moist soil it will probably rot) Keep the soil slightly moist and in a month or two a new plantlet should begin to emerge from the leaf base. Pandas are cool plants, I hope that you can save yours! * * * * Plants: 11227 | From: Cedar Hill Washington | Registered: Aug 2002  |  Seeded: 209.179.168.15 Will Creed guest posted                 Erma, Snake plants thrive in practically no soil at all, but they languish when put into larger pots that have too much soil. Yours is not showing any symptoms of drought strss so there is no reason to repot and there are a lot of reasons not to do it, not the least of which is the lack of a large pot. I strongly urge you NOT to repot, despite your impulse to do otherwise. One of the keys to plant success is learning not to do too much for plants - the "killing with kindness" syndrome. Seeded: 24.239.134.109 Erma Gardener Member # 1568 posted                       Thanks to all of you for your help. I think I'll just leave the Snake alone for now. I'll try the things with the Panda, hope it works. Erma Plants: 4 | From: Kinsman,Ohio | Registered: Oct 2003  |  Seeded: 65.177.105.120

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