House plant advice

[tothelefttotheleft]

Do you have to continually move plants to bigger and bigger pots? Where does it end?!

I'm thinking of snake plants, spider plants and peace lilies.

I have a calathea too but that just has a death wish.

It depends...

I hardly water my snake plant, just often enough so it doesn't die, but it barely grows. It's months and months between waterings! Have kept it in the same pot for 7 years.

Peace lilly you can split. Literary chop the plant in half (or quarters) with a trowel right through the rootball and pot back up in the same size pot. Give the half you don't want away

Spider plant - You can grow on a baby and give away the mother plant. Or you can take it out of the pot, trim about a quarter of the roots off the bottom and pot back up. (You can do this with lots of plants to contain their growth)

@LighthouseTeaCup

Thankyou.

It ends with a Snake and Spider Plant Army guarding the house.

The snake plant that was the size of my hand at best three years ago and fitted into a pot the size of a teacup is now in a mop bucket sized pot, has around 23 separate plants in it (and I daren't stick my hand around the base for the others that I'll inevitably find in there) and is 4 foot high, 4 foot wide and 4 foot deep. This isn't including the expeditionary units that are now occupying other rooms, DP's work in four places and three at mine.

The cat enjoys it giving him a bit of a jungle lair effect where it's on the floor in front of his bed with the Cheese plant (two wilted seed leaves and a dead true leaf that I felt sorry for in Waitrose post lockdown) that only stays below the ceiling because it's trying to climb out of the window.

Oh, and the Spider plant. One spiderlet when work was closed for lockdown. Must have had about 200 separate plants out of that and it's still going with an Imperial Guard/Clone Army on most windowsills.

The Jade plant/tree was a single leaf, not entirely certain where all of the others appeared from, but there are also multiple tradescantia, cacti, succulents, all happily growing and increasing.

It's great, really, all that life.

@NeverDropYourMooncup

This is what worried me!

What are you doing with all the spider plant babies?

Snake plant (sanseveria) I also chop through the root ball every year or two and put them back into the same size pots to keep them the size I want.

Can you do anything with calathea? That keeps getting repotted bigger.

Poking them back into the soil whilst still attached to the mother plant. And when the cat knocks a pot off a windowsill because Nemesis the Squirrel is mocking him, we end up with another plant in a pot to continue the world domination.

@NeverDropYourMooncup

I've chopping them off that growing stem thing and putting them in their own pots. I then give them away.

What advantage is there to keeping them attached to the mother plant?

@LighthouseTeaCup

Any advice for the calathea?

Burn it. But only if you can light the match before it decides to die

Beautiful plant, horrible attitude 🤣

@LighthouseTeaCup

Absolutely!