I agree with B3. Repot 3 of the babies in the existing pot and chuck or give away the rest. The babies are clones of the original so you’re not actually throwing the original away. Make sure you fill the pot with compost to about 20mm from the top. The fact that this plant is still alive in its current situation is testament to how hardy these things are. They are very tough and forgiving and you can be fairly brutal when splitting the future established clump for repotting by pulling it apart or cutting with a knife. House plants loathe my house but I can grow spider plants no bother at all.
I agree with B3. Repot 3 of the babies in the existing pot and chuck or give away the rest. The babies are clones of the original so you’re not actually throwing the original away. Make sure you fill the pot with compost to about 20mm from the top. The fact that this plant is still alive in its current situation is testament to how hardy these things are. They are very tough and forgiving and you can be fairly brutal when splitting the future established clump for repotting by pulling it apart or cutting with a knife. House plants loathe my house but I can grow spider plants no bother at all.
thanks. are you referring to the variegated or non-variegated plant, or both?
yes, it seems if i'm not careful, i'm going to have a house full of spider plants and jade plants! my natural instinct is to try to give everything a chance of life, and it's hard fighting that!
i've only been in this flat for a few months, so my plants are still acclimatising, i suppose, as am i. the windows are NE / SW, with one small window facing NW.
You could mix the compost 50/50 with decent garden soil if you have access to any. That would help with moisture retention and also add a bit of weight so that the pot doesn’t get too heavy so easily, which IME can sometimes be a problem with spider plants.
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You could put more than one plant in a pot. This would give a quicker impact but it would probably also mean that you would have to pot them on sooner.
1. Same size pot. 2. Heavier pot and heavier compost (John Innes) for stability. 3. More symmetrical postioning.
The poster already has MPC and doesn’t drive … hence my suggestion of a mix of garden soil with the MPC … it used to be that experienced gardeners developed a degree of pragmatism rather than running to buy something different from the GC for each individual task. Surely that’s a useful skill we should be passing on?
And anyway spider plants really aren’t that fussy 😃
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Make sure you fill the pot with compost to about 20mm from the top.
The fact that this plant is still alive in its current situation is testament to how hardy these things are. They are very tough and forgiving and you can be fairly brutal when splitting the future established clump for repotting by pulling it apart or cutting with a knife. House plants loathe my house but I can grow spider plants no bother at all.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.