Hi everyone,
I bought this plant three months ago and it’s been going great. I think I bought it on IKEA for reference
When I bought it there was only one in the pot, the big one. It started making babies maybe a month or two ago. The biggest baby is half the size of the mother, I got two babies going since last week. This morning, I found yet another tiny baby
So now, what do I do ?! I fear the pot is going to get too small very soon, i already have a lot of plants at home I don’t want another snake plant tbh. I don’t mind having multiples in the same pot as long as they don’t suffer from it
What should I do ? It’s going to be a forest of snake plant in that pot soon if I don’t do anything
by Wabusho
28 Comments
Take her to Plant Parenthood
Leave as is. Snake plants like to be a bit pot bound. It’s perfectly fine for the foreseeable future.
Snake plants like to be a little crowded and you don’t have to separate into multiple pots
Yeah imma agree with the others. I wouldn’t touch this. Your pot can’t hurt that plant. If it’s ceramic the plant’s tubers will literally break the pot when it’s too crowded. That looks like plastic so if it starts twisting or bulging it’s time to divide and repot.
Snake plants can be very crowded and you really have to try to kill it. My mother had one that was decades old – she knew it was time to repot when it broke out of its last one.
https://preview.redd.it/0rfvia26dq6f1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ad3769aea2694aafc95c01997a52a681767bce9
This is a crowded pot of a very happy snake plant. When it’s all filled in, yours will still be okay for a long while. Enjoy the babies, they grow up so quickly lol
Let it be for this season and maybe next season it will have filled out and you can repot bigger!
I put a condom on mine to prevent this from happening.
Help, my wallet is too small for all my fifties and my diamond shoes are TOO TIGHT. 😭
My snake plant ended up breaking my pot. I sized up nice and big and it’s filling that one now. They love being crowded.
Might need repotting next year. Fine for now.
Send the babies to me.
“My lobster is too buttery! My steak is too juicy!”
“I’m drowning in all this success!”
The pot size will be fine for a while, they like having a tight pot. You could always repot those into a smaller pot when they’re strong enough, the pups are connected to the main one though.
I had one of these in a reasonable sized pot. Sprouted two more, once they were big took it and and planted them up in a medium sized trough sort of thing, first one in the middle, others at the ends. Anyway now I have ten growing in there.
Congratulations you are a sna-ther.
Let her make alllllllllllll the babies she wants lmao
If you don’t mind the pot breaking then leave it until the plant literally breaks out. Or you can go ahead and repot into either a SLIGHTLY bigger pot or just remove and pot up the babies and put the original plant back into that pot with fresh soil. It really just depends on how rootbound it is.
What everyone else said, also snake plant roots are really shallow, so they are probably fine for a long time
I give my babies away people in the community love getting them.
Snake plants ([sansevieria](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria)) like to be root bound. What you’re calling babies are actually called “pups.” When sansevieria grow pups it means they’re happy.
Next spring, you can re-plant some of the pups into another pot or keep them with the main plant and go up one size in pots and replant them.
[This is a pretty good guide](https://www.biggergarden.com/propagate-snake-plant-pups/). Best of luck.
Just get some more pots u crank
Run!
Looks like a nice moonshine snake plant. Supposedly rare.
The problem with not repotting is that you will have very close spacing between the plants. As they get bigger they can visually crowd each other. If this doesn’t bother you, that’s fine.
I wish I had this problem. My snake plant has never had babies 😒
Remove them from the pot and give them to me lol (all kidding aside just leave it be. My snake plant has 2 or 3 babies that are almost the size of the original now. It’s happy as can be in its current pot that’s about the same size as yours)