Spider Plant Care and Propagation

Spider plant is a great Airpurify plant and NASA clean air study determined that Spider plant is Clear common house hold  and reduce Air pollution. Spider plant scientific name is Chlorophytum comosum and also know as ribbon plant and spider ivy, it's native to southern Africa ,  Australia ans tropical forests. This is species of perennial flowering plant. Spider plants mostly grown as houseplant in hanging baskets and pots. There is one more plant  pandanus plant that look same as spider plant .

Spider Plant Care 

Soil 

          Spider plant need well drain soil potting mix for good grow, you can use garden soil , sand and leaf mold or vermi compost if you want to grow in hanging basket  so you can use cocopeat and leafmold or vermi compost because cocopeat is light weight so best for long life of hanging basket . 

Watering 

                    Spider plant need less water because it have tuberous roots that hold water. Water it when soil dry out 1 inch down from surface.Don't Overwatering that cause root rot, plant get in stress and leaves start yellowing . Less watering also harm your plant so water regular but make sure soil surface completely dry out. 

Sunlight

                 Spider plant grow well in shade area (bright indirect sunlight) and morning time 1 to 2 hours direct sunlight is ok dont burn thier leaves. 

If you want to grow spider plant in room so you need window with bright light. If there is no window in room so dont place it in room for long time  shift it out side for bright light 1week in a month.

Fertilize

                Fertilize your spider plant once in a month during growing season spring to summer end. You can use leaf mold or vermi compost you can also use N. P. K (20) and mist on plant twice in a month. 

Temperature

                         Spider plant grow well  temperature range 18°C to 32°C  and this plant can survive at 2°C temperature this is great. Spider plant like high humidity level. You can mist on it twice a week , if you have big collection of housplants so you can provide  humidifier. 

Size 

          Spider plant can grow 24 inchs (2 feet) long and their leaves can grow 8 to 18 inches long. 

Repot 

            Spider plant grow well and big size in deep pots or basket 8 to 12 inch because of their fat tuberous roots and don't need to repot for long time. It can grow in small pot but after some time need to repot it cause of tuberous roots come out from pot. When you see rootblow come out from pot and no space for wateriing then repot it. 

Pruning 

               There is no required of pruing your spider plant  just remove old brown leaves or prune runner branches when you propagating from runner pups. 

Propagation

                        Spider plant propagating from pups, runner pups and from seeds. In summer spider plant give many runner pups and white flowers. You need to cut pups from branches a then place them in water or soil it's start growth  in 2 to 3 weeks . In summer spider plant flowering white flower after flowerinv when flower get completely dry there you find black small seeds you can germinate seed and make plants  but pups propagation is fast and easy. 

             

  Propagate divide pups  When spider plant roots come up from pot and need to repot it then divide their pups and you get many plants from mother plant .