How To Propagate A Spider Plant

No direct sunlight for these tender babies.

How to propagate a spider plant. Water generously but again do not soak it. Then place the plant into the hole and press down lightly with your fingers to ensure it wont fall over. Gather Your Cuttings Along the stolon of the mother plant carefully remove the spiderettes from the.

Plant spider plant cuttings directly in soil. If you want to grow a new plant from the mother plant you have to wait for the small plantlets to appear on the edge of the flower stems. By cutting them off and planting them alone in soil.

There are three methods to propagate a Spider plant and turn those children into new mature plants. Divide spider plants that are too large by pulling or cutting the root ball into several sections each with some leaves and repotting the sections with fresh. I think water propagation is the easiest because the spider plant babies sprout new white roots so quickly in water.

Spider plants are easy-to-grow adaptable houseplants making them one of the most popular indoor plants among gardeners. The easiest way to propagate spider plants is by putting the babies in water until. However that ease comes with some disadvantages.

You want to cover just enough of the bottom of the baby spider plant so it remains upright without covering the leaves. If any of the baby plants dont have roots put. University of Illinois Extension horticulturist Richard Hentschel demonstrates how to propagate multiply your spider plants.

You can leave the baby attached to the parent plant until the new plant takes root then separate it from the parent by snipping the runner. Gently poke the spiderette into a pot of soil with the node end down. Back to top When you cut off the spouts from the parent plant after theyve grown roots to a sustainable size you can plant them in some soil.