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Re: [SANS] Sansevieria arborescens , etc.

To all:
I somehow managed to avoid receiving about 25 e-mails upon my return from
Europe. If anybody has sent me lately an e-mail, please send it again.
Thanks.

I just received the April 1998 issue of "Succulenta" , the C & S  magazine
published in Dutch for the Benelux, with an article on Variegation. showing
ten color pictures of variegated sansevierias and yes, I am the author.

To John Gamesby:

The problem with your cuttings of Sansevieria arborescens is not heat, as
one can easily ascertain by the fact that your cuttings  do root, but
light.
S. arborescens grows in full sun in Kenya, around Mombassa (very humid). As
a regular plant in the greenhouse it needs more light than the average
Sans.

So, I would set your cuttings,  GRADUALLY in the sun (England's sun). Make
sure, if you do it outdoors in summer, that your night temperature remains
high. Sans grow at night and the plant gathers strength during the day. Low
night temperatures: no growth. Some ambient humidity is necessary (East
exposure).
If you do it indoors, south or west exposure through a window pane is OK.
Even if your cuttings are two years old, as long as they are rooted, this
should work.

Your problem is similar of that one Pfennig had when he wrote (in German)
that he thought  S. pinguicula cannot be propagated by leaf cuttings simply
because he was not able to do it himself in northern Germany. I have
propagated S. arborescens by cuttings and the number of successfully
propagated cuttings of S. pinguicula, in normal time, that I have done, in
all sizes, exceeds 250.  S. pinguicula grows in the most xeric conditions
in N.E. Kenya in full sun.

Best regards.

Juan
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