I let them callous over for a few days beforehand.
Lay them flat on potting soil, mist from time to time, they won’t usually root in water.
The idea is to mimic the natural process where a leaf will break and fall on the ground to take root
Thank you :) Would you cut off the lowest centimentre that was laying in water or would you put them on soil immediately?
That I’m not sure, never started a succulent in water… If it looks like the tissue is waterlogged probably cut it, but if the callous is intact it might be fine…?
Oh, also if you have access to it, “cactus” soil mix will be the best
During the fall-winter time usually it takes months to grow some poor roots on Sansevieria. And some types do this much slower than other in my expirience.
Actually right now I have one Kirkii leaf in water for 4 months, and still nothing.
They take a lot longer than 2 weeks to begin rooting, in my experience. But if you leave them in the water they’ll root eventually.
As a side note, the babies will not have yellow leaf edges. This type of sansevieria reverts to an all-green variety when propped this way. If you want to keep the yellow edges, you have to prop them by letting them bud off the main root.
oh I did not know that, thank you
I’ve had a leaf take several week to grow roots, and then nearly a year once in dirt to actually grow a new shoot.
Goodluck!
