How to prune sansevieria patens

Any time; remove dead growth as it appears. Cut dead leaves at their base flush with the soil using a sterilized blade. Disturb the rosette arrangement as little as possible — tightly packed leaves protect each other and give the plant its ornamental shape.

Rarely; only when leaves fully die back. Sansevieria patens forms a distinctive spreading rosette of cylindrical leaves and needs almost no pruning. Remove fully dead or dried-out leaves by cutting at the base. Do not shorten living leaves — the cylindrical form cannot regenerate cleanly from a cut tip, which will simply brown.

Cut dead leaves at their base flush with the soil using a sterilized blade. Disturb the rosette arrangement as little as possible — tightly packed leaves protect each other and give the plant its ornamental shape.