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title: "Is it normal for Snake Plants propagated from a cutting in perlite to…"
description: "Is it normal for Snake Plants propagated from a cutting in perlite to grow so slowly? My Baby Nagini has taken 11 months to get to this point."
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/vOLjreBcQ-OpqrHIhVSc4w/grzp4BWA8yI19yMsFA7Av6"
community: "The Cactus & Succulent Circle"
author: "Lizpixie"
published: "2025-11-30T16:44:48.659439Z"
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# Is it normal for Snake Plants propagated from a cutting in perlite to…

_Posted by Lizpixie on 2025-11-30_

Is it normal for Snake Plants propagated from a cutting in perlite to grow so slowly? My Baby Nagini has taken 11 months to get to this point.

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## 5 comments

### prayformyplants commented on 2025-11-30

I think any snake plant is a slow grower.. but propagated?? You’re gonna wait ages 😭😂

### Katomarose commented on 2025-11-30

I've heard snake plant propagations take up to a year to do anything

### PLANT-tastic Girl🪴 commented on 2025-11-30

I am not sure how my grand kids did mine. but I just sit mine right here and she does her own thing. I spray her leaves. I do know with ALL plants. You really need to find their “HAPPY PLACE” direct or indirect sunlight. It takes a little moving around and a some weeks b4 some of mine have found a happy place inside. Most of my plants I have found at work. Hope this helps. My plants and I are a work in progress

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### Hayley commented on 2025-12-01

I got this disaster about 3-4 years ago; he was a few clumps of leaves on rhizomes with no roots at all. It took about 10 months to show any noticeable roots, 16 months for roots to get 2 inches long, 2 years before any new leaves happened, and now we're here.

I much prefer birds nest snake plants, ngl 😅 they seem to grow so much easier, at least for me lol

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### The leafy Angel commented on 2025-12-01

lol I also have a snake plant named Nagini

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