How to Get More Spider Plant Babies

I love wild and wacky Spider Plants but I love them even more when they produce lots of babies. I got mine from Santa Ynez Gardens and bought it with me when I moved to Tucson. It’s hanging outside right near the front door but the grow pot just wasn’t knocking my socks off. It really has sent a lot more babies in the 2 months that I’ve lived here but I wanted a jazzier decorative pot to put it in. This is 1 way to get more Spider Plant babies, which is all about the pot size and repotting.

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A few of my Spider Plant babies – some are almost white.

Spider Plants can go rather limp and stop producing babies if the conditions aren’t to their liking. Besides lots of light, they also prefer warm temperatures to bring on that flowering which subsequently turns into the babies. You’ll find that your Spider Plant won’t begin to set blooms in the cooler months with less natural light. Another way to get them to produce those blooms and babies, which is the subject of this post and video, is to keep them tight in their pots.

I’m not talking potbound for 10 years but comfortably tight, sort of like those jeans which fit like a glove but you can still move and groove in them. Finding decorative hanging containers is always a challenge for me but I found these pots which I really like a lot – the lines are simple, they’re lightweight and the color selection is varied. The variety of spray paints is so extensive now that if a color doesn’t appeal to you, then spray it!

My Spider Plant in its new pot – the bright yellow is a joyful color that I see each time I enter or left the house. The space it’s hanging in is not that big so the pot fits in just fine.

This new pot is slightly larger than the grow pot so it has a bit of room to grow but will at the same time restrict any rampant root growth. You’ll see in the video that the root ball was quite developed and crowded. I’m sure the plant is enjoying its new freedom to grow a bit. Another thing I love about this pot is the fact that the chain snaps off and off with a hook because it makes it so much easier when repotting.

Spider Plants aren’t fussy as to soil so you can use any good organic potting soil which ensures they have good drainage. (I was out of potting soil so I used planting mix combined with succulent and cactus mix (this ups the ante on the drain factor). I also mixed in and top dressed with a bit of my favorite amendment, worm castings.

Just remember, don’t rush to repot your Spider Plant and don’t give it too big a home base to grow into. Mine is happy and so am I every time I look at it!

Happy gardening,

As you can see, roots appear off the base of the babies. they practically propagate themselves!

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Nell, the founder of Joy Us garden, was born into a gardening family and grew up in Connecticut’s countryside. After living in Boston, New York, San Francisco, & Santa Barbara, she now calls the Arizona desert home. She studied horticulture & garden design, working in the field all her life. Nell is a gardener, designer, blogger, Youtube creator, & author. She’s been gardening for a very long time & wants to share what she’s learned with you.

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21 Comments

my spider plant seen to be different with yours, it has a white line string beside the leave and the white color flowers are tiny. where to have look for the babies to replanted it? thanks

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing, this was very helpful.

Hi Albert – You have a different variety of spider Plant than I do. The babies form off of stems which emerge from the center parts of the mother plant. Nell

Oh great Rene, I’m so glad you found it to be helpful. Nell

Hi, just wondering how do you fix or deal with bent leaves? My spider plant has a few bent leaves and is not looking very attractive. It’s gets weekly waterings and moderate sunlight. Not sure what is the cause of this.

Hi Jennifer – The leaves on mine will bend every now & then, but not consistently. Reasons I can think of are: inconsistent watering (usually too much), too much sun & it needs to be repotted. Nell

should we cut runners? or will they just produce more babies?

Hi Ebony – I always cut off the runners because it looks better. The babies start from inside the plant & then the runners form as the babies grow. My guess would be that babies don’t appear off of mature runners. Nell

Hi Nell! I love the look of the tiered spider plants that ive seen at nurseries. So im not going to cut the pups from,my spider plant. But i cant find any info on caring for them that way. All of it is for propogating them. Do i need to water the pups separately from the mother to grow it this way?

Hi – If you’re going to leave the pups on your Spider Plant, you can mist them once a week if you’d like. The babies are getting nourishment from the mother plant because they’re still attached. I’ve heard that if you leave too many on, it puts a strain on the mother plant but not sure if that’s true but it makes sense. Nell

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