There's 2 ways I know of. The easiest way is to put the "babies" in a cup of water, with the base where the roots will grow just touching into the water (you don't want to immerse the leaves or they'll rot). Within a few weeks they will have lots of roots and can be potted up. They'll also live a long time in the water, I had some for almost a year before I got around to potting them up. The second way is sort of what they would do in the wild. The mom sends out runners (the babies) which root where they touch soil (like strawberries do). If you can line up a pot so that a baby touches fresh moist soil (while still attached to mom) it will root. A florist pin (craft store) works well to hold them down until they take root. Spider plants will make the most babies when they are potbound, so don't repot too frequently. Just like with people, making the babies takes a lot out of the mother, so make sure to give fertilizer so there's enough food for mom and babies, otherwise the babies may die off or mom may start looking wiped. It's often a good idea to just start up a fresh pot with several rooted babies when the mother plant gets old and starts looking sickly. If they dry out, spider plants tips will brown, you can cut and reshape them with scissors and it doesn't seem to bother the plant. Good luck!
Airual Julie wrote: > I watered my plants and trimmed the spider plant that > was half brown. > Anyone know how to take the little shoots that come > off of them and make new plants? I would love to do > it but they seem to die on me (the offshoots, not the > plant) > > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Journey from clutter List Website http://journeyfromclutter.com Members Only Page http://journeyfromclutter.com/MembersOnly/MembersArea.htm Unsubscribe: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in the 'Subject:' field to be removed from the main list. To Unsubscribe from the Digest version of the list send the unsubscribe message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
