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The easiest way to propagate spider plants is to cut off the plantlets and put them in water or soil to grow roots. The little baby plantlets (also called stolons or runners) are growing off the main plant on long stems. You can also divide the root ball and form new plants that way.
Spider Plant Propagation. When you’re ready to propagate your spider plant babies, you have the option of rooting the plantlets by growing directly in soil or you can choose to root them in water. Spider plant propagation is very simple and yields great results with little effort. Growing Plantlets From Spider Plants
After a spider plant becomes root bound in this way, it will start developing runners, also known as stolons. Stolons are long tendrils on which the plant will initially grow short-lived but pretty little flowers. These white, six-petalled flowers have a star-like shape.
Before propagating your spider plant through runners, it is important to identify healthy runners. Look for runners that are at least 6 inches long and have a few small roots starting to form. Healthy runners will be green and sturdy, with no signs of disease or pest infestation.
Learn how to propagate spider plants from runners with this easy step-by-step guide. We'll explain how to identify and separate the runners, pot the new plants, and care for them until they're established.
To grow on a spider plant baby while it's still attached to the parent plant, pin it down into a pot of compost, as you would do for a strawberry runner. Water well. Once the spider plant baby has rooted into its new pot, cut it off from the main plant's stem.
Spider plants produce many stolons or runners (these are the long yellowish stems that grow out of the mother plant) that form perfect new babies right next to them. Several spider plants form on the stolons or buttresses of the mother plant, which grows in a hanging basket.
As trimming it to control the plant’s size and manage its shape will naturally involve cutting the leggy runners with the plantlets, attached to its ends. When it comes to propagating a larger mature spider plant by dividing it, you can do so at almost any time of the year without much effort.
The spider plant is well-known for its offshoots (also called spiderettes) that can be planted and re-grown. But before you can do that, you need to learn how to harvest them. Today, Whitakers will talk you through the main method for propagating spider plants.
Once a spider plant is a year old, it will produce long, pale runners on which miniature spider babies grow. The stalks dangle on all sides of the parent plant. The babies grow larger, and in a week or so, you'll see little white nubs growing on the bottom of each spiderette.