Sansevieria francisii (?) identification confirmation

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Re: Sansevieria francisii (?) identification confirmation

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Colin Walker wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 3:22 pm
MatDz wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:38 pm [....]

I was quite lucky with my last visit to a garden centre and bought a 40 cm rectangular Italian terracotta pot with two stacked 50% discounts! So now (rather temporarily, as I am still hoping to find a suitable bonsai pot!) my S. francisii sits in it.
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Well I'm dead jealous of your 40 cm rectangular Italian terracotta pot, so yes please if you can spare one. :grin: :grin: :grin:

Picture please perhaps?
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It certainly doesn't look as amazing as I sounded, but still a pretty decent pot for a fiver!

I'm totally going to repot it into the discussed bonsai pot/pan as soon as I find one I like that won't cost an arm and a leg.

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In the meantime I "painted" the pot "rustic white" (i.e. couldn't be bothered to paint it nice) and the plant started to flower from two of its three offshoots:

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Re: Sansevieria francisii (?) identification confirmation

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MatDz wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 4:14 pm
Colin Walker wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 3:22 pm
MatDz wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:38 pm [....]

I was quite lucky with my last visit to a garden centre and bought a 40 cm rectangular Italian terracotta pot with two stacked 50% discounts! So now (rather temporarily, as I am still hoping to find a suitable bonsai pot!) my S. francisii sits in it.
Hi Mat,

Well I'm dead jealous of your 40 cm rectangular Italian terracotta pot, so yes please if you can spare one. :grin: :grin: :grin:

Picture please perhaps?
[...]
It certainly doesn't look as amazing as I sounded, but still a pretty decent pot for a fiver!

I'm totally going to repot it into the discussed bonsai pot/pan as soon as I find one I like that won't cost an arm and a leg.
Hi Mat,

Excellent choice of pot for this straggly and difficult to accommodate sansevieria. Looking good. And for just a fiver what's not to like? After flowering it will go on to produce yet more straggly offsets.
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Colin Walker wrote: Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:53 am Hi Mat,

Excellent choice of pot for this straggly and difficult to accommodate sansevieria. Looking good. And for just a fiver what's not to like? After flowering it will go on to produce yet more straggly offsets.
Hi Colin!

Thank you, it was pretty much luck, not a deliberate decision with the pot, I took whatever was large enough and on offer :mrgreen:

I am not sure I am ready for more offsets, I was absolutely lucky the 3 it has now (+ main stem) lined up so nicely to fit that pot. Next pot option is either a 60 cm monster, or a large square or circular bonsai, which would need to wait for a space upgrade first!
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How tough are the offsets as they grow? I'd there any way you can steer them round and back into the pot and secure them with wire loops or ties?
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edds wrote: Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:36 am How tough are the offsets as they grow? I'd there any way you can steer them round and back into the pot and secure them with wire loops or ties?
In my experience the joint of the stolon at the main rosette isn't that robust, so I've managed to break off a couple of offsets in the past when I really didn't want that to happen. So I doubt they'd take to being bent around to accommodate an unwieldy plant in a new container. Offsets also have a habit of flopping over, so overall it doesn't make a tidy plant. :shock: But it grows well and flowers when relatively small, so these are big pluses compared to many other much larger growing sansevierias. For example, my mega plant of S. downsii is sprawling at well over 1m across and is yet to flower for me.
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Looking at my plant I second all what Colin wrote above, the stolons are pretty rigid and seem to be breaking off really easily. I am planning to try a bonsai style training on fresh stolons, where one wraps them with a wire and progressively bend to the desired shape bit by bit while they are still young.
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Ah well - I did think after posting that if they were that compliant someone must have tried it already. Good luck with the bonsai wire.
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Looks like the plant enjoyed the extra special treatment with the paint and is now rewarding you!
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NaZzAtAzEr wrote: Sat Jan 16, 2021 6:05 pm Looks like the plant enjoyed the extra special treatment with the paint and is now rewarding you!
I made sure to choose a non-poisonous one, I bet it appreciated it!
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