I let them callous over for a few days beforehand.
Lay them flat on potting soil, mist from time to time, they won’t usually root in water.
The idea is to mimic the natural process where a leaf will break and fall on the ground to take root
Thank you :) Would you cut off the lowest centimentre that was laying in water or would you put them on soil immediately?
They take a lot longer than 2 weeks to begin rooting, in my experience. But if you leave them in the water they’ll root eventually.
As a side note, the babies will not have yellow leaf edges. This type of sansevieria reverts to an all-green variety when propped this way. If you want to keep the yellow edges, you have to prop them by letting them bud off the main root.
I just stick them in dirt and water it. They end up growing but they do take a little while.
I’ve got some sitting in water in my kitchen that have been there for the past six months. They only started putting roots out after about four? It takes a long time!
I couldn’t get mine to do anything in water. Last resort I just threw them in dirt and bam…got roots. Just recut them and stick em in.