HOW TO DIVIDE ROOT-BOUND SPIDER PLANT WITHOUT KILLING IT
- Water the plant thoroughly, a few hours before you begin.
- Always divide plants in shade.
- Remove the entire plant from the pot by upturning it.
- Loosen it gently.
- Wash under water if it is too tightly packed.
- Remove all soil under water.
- Gently pull each section apart, starting from the sides.
- Plant each divided part individually, in new pots with fresh soil & vermicompost.
- Place in shade till they start growing.
HOW TO PROPAGATE SPIDER PLANT FROM CUTTINGS
- Take a few cuttings along with the stems.
- You will notice aerial roots or small projections along the stems.
- These stems go into the soil to form proper roots. Bury horizontally but 2″ deep.
- Keep some weight over the soil to prevent stems from being exposed.
- Keep watering & wait.
- When the pups begin to grow in size, the roots have formed.
- Move wherever you want or let them grow. Soon these plants will be mature enough to form pups of their own!
HOW TO PLANT SPIDER PLANT PUPS (BABIES) TO GROW AS NEW PLANTS
- Gently remove the small pups from the thin string like stem.
- Notice they have aereal roots already growing.
- You can plant the entire stem with multiple babies or plant them all individually.
- Keep them watered and kept in shade till they start growing
- Soon, they will be big enough and produce more pups on strings that fal all around the main plant. This is the actual beauty of spider-plant!
If you are like me, you probably run at the sight at all house insects, the most creepy being spiders. Yet, give me a spider plant and i will give it 5 start treatment i.e. a special pot inside the home, regular water & even a few selfies, if you may! Spider plants fascinate me! Right from the way they grow to throwing out pups, how they can be easily propagated & of-course how they do well indoors.
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