How to grow *nice* spiders: snip off lots of baby shoots, fill jar, glass or vase with water, plunk them babies in the water, set in the spring sun, keep roots in water and re-fill jar with water when needed, in about 2 weeks, more or less they'll be nicely rooted and be ready for planting into a nice primitive pot.
Our babies look like this today, these shoots will make a very fine bigger scale plant, whooopsie me, how utterly unintentional, fish/scale LOL ~ fish with strawberry optional :)
Eventually they'll be a glorious and lush spider plant, like this!
And having *nice* spider babies of their own, like this!
Kind thanks for stopping by!Tootles, Sue
My daughter carefully tended a baby spider plant at school in first grade. When it was finally grown enough she was allowed to bring it home.
ReplyDeleteThe cat ate it to nubbins within ten minutes flat.
Better luck with your babies!
I loved my spider plant but when we moved to this house it died, I don't think it liked the move lol must think about getting another...
ReplyDeleteGracious, how I enjoye your post. I had completey forgotten about spider plants and how we used to grow them from the babies! Thank you for the memory!
ReplyDeleteI love these plants. My grandmother used to have them all over her front porch. Me, I can't grow a week:(
ReplyDeleteHi Sue! My grandma does this with my great-grandma's spider plant. I'm on my third or fourth baby, they don't seem to like the 12 hour trip from PA to here. This one is doing good though, hopefully it'll be a nice lush plant before fall.
ReplyDeleteMy son and older daughter both had the same 1st grade teacher, they each planted a spider plant in her class at Halloween. It's been 7 yrs for my son's and 4 yrs for my daughters. They survived the move to GA, lived root bound in a clay pot for two yrs afterward. I managed to kill them off this spring after I repotted them. I've never had such bad luck with plants until we moved here!!
Amanda