GH, I don't think the flowers turn into shoots..I've had green then red berry's pop up after the flowers faded, but not new shoots.
But w/baby shoots, you can get shoot after shoot per stem. And that's no bull shoots..LOL. Toni

LOL, thank you Toni. :)

GH

GW, you must forgive my 'sense of humor'..W/4 hours sleep, I'm making up stupid jokes that aren't funny..Too much on my mine, ya know? Toni

After the flowers bloom they'll slowly close and die on the stem leaving a green seed pod, if you let these stay on the plant they'll turn almost a black color. Inside these are little black seeds. Not as easy as propagating from the babies formed on the stems, and as far as I know only green plants are produced from this method, even if the seed comes from a variegated plant.

Hope this helps
Mallory

Sometime you will get a verigated plant out of a seed. It's called a sport. I took a couple of seeds off of a green with white edges spider. One sprouted all green and the other one is more verigated than your normal verigated spider. And someday I'll get the cats to stop eating the babies off of the sport so that I can grow more of it!!

Manda in Seattle

Manda, are the seeds really tiny? Do you open the berry to get at the seeds? Thanks, Toni

The seed pod will eventually open but once it's brown you can open it yourself. The seeds are black and rather angular.

Janet's Garden

I've never gotten a variegated one from my seeds...now im going to have to plant all of them...that's interesting though,
thanks
mallory

never had one go to seed... the little plantlets just start growing aerial roots and they get bigger on the plant...

I was surprised to see one grow verigated also! I kept asking my husband if I was seeing things or not. Now if I can get the cats to stop eating the plantlets off of it, I might beable to grow more of it. I'll see if I can get some pictures of it.

My foster mom's spider was outside and I think that helped with it going to seed. I've only had one of my indoor spiders produce seeds and I never got a chance to plant them.

Manda in Seattle

I'm so happy to report that my spider plant is full of babies now! She's such a proud mama...LOL

GH

I remember going to GReat America in the 90's one summer..they kept Spider plants outside in direct sun. These plants were beautiful..In fall we went back and those spiders were filled w/shoots, white flowers and berrys. They were stunning. I'm wondering if being outside makes a difference..or placing in full sun..I've only had berry's once..that summer I set spiders directly in front of a west window which gets a lot of sun. Toni

I am alittle late in coming in here, but Ill share none the less. Ive usually had a spider plant. I think ive had a total of 3. They have usually been very long lived and the only one that never produced seeds or babies was my solid green one. You dont see too many solid green ones, and I kind of am partial to them.

I currently have a small verigated one. I work in Downtown Washington DC, and the Smithsonian Castle's gardnes in the summer usually have many, very large hanging basket spider plants outdoors on light posts. They are ENORMOUS, and usually have hundreds of babies on each plant, if not more. They are all verigated. There are usually 40 or 50 of these giant plants around, and most of them are in direct sun, and do great. My last spider died a few years ago, it never even produced a bloom spike, let alone a baby. It was solid green. So, summer 2004 when I was on my luch break, I took a small baby from one of the gigantic outdoor spiders at Smithsonian. It lived in my office, in water for about a year, and did OK. It did almost die a few times. I took it home and repotted it in winter 05/06 in a small ceramic pot. At one point, it only had 3 leaves. 1 leaf on one, and 2 leaves on the other. Slowly, it put out a couple of new leaves. I placed it outdoors in full sun for the summer, and in less than two months it is 10 times the size it was, it now has about 30 leaves, and has a nice bloom spike that has been blooming for a month, and even has a seed pod. Im hoping I can get a "GREEN" one out of the seeds as id like to keep a verigated one, and a solid green one.

So they definately can take full summer sun, at least here in Washington.