Spider Plant Babies

Hi i need some advice please
my spider plant has loads of babies on it but i dont know how to grow them on, by this i mean do i just cut them off and plant them in their own pot or do i plant them in their own pot while still attached to the mother plant, or is there some other method:cnfs:
I would love to grow these babies on and make new plants but just dont know how any advice greatly received:thmb:

Thanks in advance
Sandi:wink:

 

Hi there Findahou...I snip them off and pop them into seperate pots. I have several in my greenhouse at the moment if you want to see some
Just taken a snap..

 

They are seriously easy to do by any one of a number of methods you can do as Pal says or put a pot of compost under the plantlet pin it down it will then root cut it from the mother plant once rooted,or cut them off when a reasonable size place them in water, they will readily throw out roots then pot them up, if you leave them on the plant long enough they will develope roots you can then cut them off the mother plant and pot them up.

 

I cut them off, pop them in water for a few days and then into a pot of compost. The house is full of spider plants! I think I have the descendants of a plant given to me back in 1996 in Edinburgh.

Can they live outside in summer months? I'd like to put a few out on the patio.

 

In a word Aaron "yes"

 

Quite a few Parks Departments use Chlorophytum in flower beds and planters as part of summer bedding schemes. (So they tell me:D).
They can take a light frost.

 

And you can leave the little spider babies on the parent plant and put it out in a hanging basket with all the little spiders hanging down. Very pretty.

 

I'm usually overrun with the little things but decided last year to have a fresh start with them, got rid apart from one of each type and there on their merry way to give me lots more late summer

I tend to cut them off and straight into tot pots of compost and before you know it I've been invaded

I've seen them as bedding in Mallorca, looked really pretty as a huge bed of just them

 

WOW thanks everyone, i didnt realise how easy it would be to grow these babies on, i feel silly now asking:dh: but i did'nt want to kill them:hehe: I'll give a few of the methods ago and see which is best for me.
Thanks again
Sandi :gnthb:

 

Don't feel silly - learning is all about asking questions