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Spider Plant
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Following on from your excellent advise re my cacti, I now seek more help! I have a flourishing spider plant and I want to duplicate it - I am completely clueless as to how to do this though. Do I just cut a leaf off and put it into my Heated propagator? Will the leaf grow roots in the propagator? Cheers for your advice :O) -- (º·.¸(¨*·.¸ ¸.·*¨)¸.·º) «.·°·. g00se .·°·.» (¸.·º(¸.·¨* *¨·.¸)º·.¸) |
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"g00se" wrote in message ... Hi Following on from your excellent advise re my cacti, I now seek more help! I have a flourishing spider plant and I want to duplicate it - I am completely clueless as to how to do this though. Do I just cut a leaf off and put it into my Heated propagator? Will the leaf grow roots in the propagator? Spider plants grow lots of wee plantlets. If you put these into soil or peat they will grow a new plant Ophelia |
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g00se wrote:
Hi Following on from your excellent advise re my cacti, I now seek more help! I have a flourishing spider plant and I want to duplicate it - I am completely clueless as to how to do this though. Do I just cut a leaf off and put it into my Heated propagator? Will the leaf grow roots in the propagator? Cheers for your advice :O) Best way to get spider plants is to let them grow.. THey are viviparous ('live bearing' which applies to plants in this context) and will produce offsets on the ends of long stalks. Snip these off and place into pots when big enought to handle comfortably. I find the best way to encourage good plantlets is to grow my spiders outside in baskets in the summer. Mine ususally go the winter in the porch though they often die right back but resprout from the roots with fresh growth. Alternatvily bring some indoors for the winter. // Jim |
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g00se wrote:
Hi Following on from your excellent advise re my cacti, I now seek more help! I have a flourishing spider plant and I want to duplicate it - I am completely clueless as to how to do this though. Do I just cut a leaf off and put it into my Heated propagator? Will the leaf grow roots in the propagator? Cheers for your advice :O) Best way to get spider plants is to let them grow.. THey are viviparous ('live bearing' which applies to plants in this context) and will produce offsets on the ends of long stalks. Snip these off and place into pots when big enought to handle comfortably. I find the best way to encourage good plantlets is to grow my spiders outside in baskets in the summer. Mine ususally go the winter in the porch though they often die right back but resprout from the roots with fresh growth. Alternatvily bring some indoors for the winter. // Jim |
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I always thought of spider plants as a houseplant but this year I've
seen them used in a couple of places as summer bedding and they looked really good. I'm feeling inspired to bring on a few offshoots over the next winter and do the same myself next year. Robert ---------- In article 1fzllc2.1x7ms6sagyt30N%00senetnospamtodayta@macun limited.net, (Jim W) wrote: I find the best way to encourage good plantlets is to grow my spiders outside in baskets in the summer. Mine ususally go the winter in the porch though they often die right back but resprout from the roots with fresh growth. Alternatvily bring some indoors for the winter. // Jim |
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Robert Davies wrote:
I always thought of spider plants as a houseplant but this year I've seen them used in a couple of places as summer bedding and they looked really good. I'm feeling inspired to bring on a few offshoots over the next winter and do the same myself next year. Yep its the better humidity and high light levels that makes them look so good.. If you can get this indoors as well they would look just as happy;-) // Jim |
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"Jim W" wrote in message news:1fzmm0n.6jbw7t15q1tveN%00senetnospamtodayta@m acunlimited.net... Robert Davies wrote: I always thought of spider plants as a houseplant but this year I've seen them used in a couple of places as summer bedding and they looked really good. I'm feeling inspired to bring on a few offshoots over the next winter and do the same myself next year. Yep its the better humidity and high light levels that makes them look so good.. If you can get this indoors as well they would look just as happy;-) I used to grow mine in the bathroom where they always flourished O |
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