On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:30:18 GMT, occupant
wrote:

Recently found a couple of abandoned plants that are doing ok. Today I
found a distressed looking plant with the store tag on it saying it is a
snake plant. It has green 1 1/2 inch wide leaves. The plant is about 1
1/2 feet tall. The leaves are somewhat sagging but not totally flopped
over - sort of the leaning tower of Pisa. Any advise to keep it alive
or get the leaves to sort of stand at attention or look alive. I am not
a plant person per se but when I see plants abandoned by tenants of
apartment buildings I take them in. I thought of letting it dry out a
bit and being indoors as opposed to outdoors by a dumpster on the
southern Canadian Pacific Coast might help. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Your plant may be too far gone. Snakeplants survive quite well in
low-light and minimal water conditions, so it'd take a lot of stress
to make one sick. You *can* make new plants by cutting a leaf into
1-1/2"-2" horizontal slices and inserting one edge into a moist
potting medium. At any rate, bringing indoors and giving water only
when the soil is dry may revive it.

This site appears to have good information:

http://www.emilycompost.com/snake_plant.htm