spider plants stolons!!!!! HOW!!!!!

20 years ago

my freind has a spider plant, and shes had if for a longgg while. Is there anyways to help it grow some stolons. it has never grown stolons.

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brian_k
20 years ago
Make sure it is well watered and has good lighting. The leaves should be held upright in a vase shape. Mine, which is plain green, was started from a baby of a mature plant 2 years ago. It was a little pot bound, but I think good lighting and watering has more to do with flowering.

This is what the flower looks like.
JerseyTropics
20 years ago
Keep it potbound, and neglect with respect! It really isn't a foo foo plant...
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
20 years ago
and i think it likes it on the dry side .... google the plant for proper watering ...

i have 3 hanging baskets in the house until summer ....i let mine dry until they start to go limp ... a little too far as i get browning.. but the furnace makes it very hard in winter... sopping wet for a week ... then bone dry, when i dont test it for a few days ... stand it in water for a day ... and then ignore it for a few weeks ...

I AGREE >> THIS IS NOT A FOO FOO PLANT ....

and i never fertilize it in winter ...once at the beginning of summer, once they get outside ... every second or third year i repot... as by that time.. there is no soil left in the pot .. its all roots ... now that is potbound ... you dont want to know what i do to it.. to get it back into the same hanging basket ... with room for root regeneration ... lol

so.. abuse it.. repot it to a smaller pot.. hang it outside after frostfree time comes ... in the shade.... .... make sure you arent giving it the wrong fert formula ... generally abuse it until it thinks its going to die.. so as to encourage it to think it will die.. and then it will try to fulfill its only goal in life ... procreation ... and it will put out the stolons so as to flower and seed and put out the baby spidies ...

and if you kill it based on these recommendations... let me know.. i will send you some of the hundreds of baby spiders i have ... you really cant hurt this thing ...

which reminds me of one of my garden truisms.. we usually do more harm with too much love, than with too little ... maybe this plant is just too happy ...lol .. good luck ...

ken
apermann
20 years ago
Good bright indoor light is key to getting your plant to flower. The extra abuse that has been mentioned can speed up flowering if you have adequate light but is not essential. I water mine weekly, never after it has wilted, and transplant hardly never. Once your get your plant to start flowering you will find it hard to get it to stop.