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Snake Plant Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

An upright succulent houseplant that survives low light and long gaps between waterings; rots if kept too wet.

Snake Plant

Dracaena trifasciata

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Active growthRest period

Guides

Pests and diseases (3)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Anthracnose

Disease

Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.

Leaf Spot

Disease

Small round brown to gray-white lesions appear on the lower leaves, the centers turning gray with tiny black specks. As they multiply the leaf yellows and drops early.

Bacterial Rot

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