Spider plant help!

[A kid at heart]

I have this spider plant that someone gave me and it was close to dead. I somehow revivied it(no clue on how tho) and it has literally tripled in size. It now has tons of those sprouts coming out of it and I did clip a few and make a few more plants out of it. But now my question is do I trim this thing for the winter? What do I do with it? Its now in the middle of my diningroom table cause I don't now where to put it! or what to do with it!

 

[amid chaos]

No trimming..just let it keep making babies and fertilize in the spring...they love Miracle Grow.

 

[Mamu]

I would get it off the dining room table. Spider plants like to be hung in windows or on a plant holder where the babies can hang down below the plant.

 

[Snowwark]

Welcome to the Flower & Garden Board, A kid at heart!

It sounds like your dinningroom is full of babies!

I kill all houseplants, even the easy to grow ones (spider plants), mentioned in this link - You Grow Girl!


Kim

 

[A kid at heart]

Well its sitting on my diningroom table because I have no place else to put it!
I am trying to get a hook in the kitchen in front of the window to put it for the winter! its too cold outside to hang it. I can't believe this thing is thriving the way it is with me taking care of it~! LOL
I have used miracle grow on it and my garden outside! Maybe thats the secret to my success! hehehehe

 

[thatcats]

I have several spider plants and they thrive on my windowsill during the winter.

I had one that got much too large and as an experiment put it outside on my patio in the spring a couple of years ago. It grew really well all through the Summer but I left it out through the winter as I didn't have room for it indoors. After the first frosts the leaves died back and the plant appeared to have died altogether. In the Spring I noticed that it was sprouting shoots and by the Summer I had a beautiful plant again.

It just goes to show how hardy these plants are - and yes it is outside for the winter again!

 

[debknight]

Where is "Luton Bedfordshire"? I've never seen a tropical plant survive a Chicago winter!

 

[thatcats]

Hi debknight

Luton, Bedfordshire is in England - and we get cold, frosty winters but I don't think they are as cold as your Chicago ones.

 

[DebºoºS]

Congratulations on your new spider offsprings. My spider plants have all grown so big and multiplied, it's scary. They're way out of control. They summer on the deck and winter in the house in front or close to a window. Doesn't have to be direct light either. I hardly water them and never fertilize in the winter. It's just awful the way they're treated here but they keep grow grow growing.

Kim, give them another try. They can take the abuse.

Debknight, I too have had them put out little shoots in the spring after falling off the mother plant in the summer and going through the winter. It was in a raised planter on the deck not directly in the ground.

Best of luck with your spiders.

 

[Snowwark]

Deb, my problem is lack of space for indoor plants. I do have one nice mixed planter basket that I received earlier this year, that's still hanging on. It's on a small table and receives morning sun.

I do have a small bump-out greendhouse window in the kitchen, and that's where I'm able to keep alive a few cacti, succulents, and .....drumroll......a couple of african violets!!