🌿 Plant Help
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My snake plant looked fine from the top, then one leaf leaned over and the base was soft. I pulled the plant out and two leaves detached with mushy bottoms. The soil was damp even though I had not watered in weeks. There are still a few firm leaves and some orange roots that do not smell terrible. The pot was ceramic with one small drainage hole and I think the nursery soil was basically a sponge. Do I cut the firm leaves and propagate, or can I clean the roots and repot what is left?
Save anything firm. Cut above the mush, let the cut callus, and propagate leaf sections if you want backups. For the rooted part, remove all soft tissue before repotting or it will keep spreading.
Snake plants forgive neglect better than wet feet. Use a smaller pot than you think and a gritty mix. Then ignore it for a while.
Smell is useful here. If the rhizome smells rotten or feels soft inside, do not keep that piece. Firm rhizomes with healthy roots are worth trying.
Do not put it back into the same wet soil. That is just returning the plant to the scene of the crime.
Leaf propagation works but takes forever. Do it, then pretend you forgot about it. Checking every day will not make the tiny shoots appear faster.
If the pot only has one tiny hole, I would switch to a nursery pot inside the ceramic cover pot. You get drainage and still keep the look.
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