Flowers on a spider plant!!!?

This may be a daft question but I have a long stem with white flowers on it, is this normal? What do I do with them?

Flowers on a spider plant!!!?
Yes, this is normal. What others have left out, is that it will produce one of two things, a baby spider plat, or a seed pod. IF it produces another plant, hurray! If it produces a seed pod, you can plant the seeds, but the plants that grow from the seeds will not look like the parent plant.





Check out the sources listed for more information on the propagation of spider plants.





Good luck.
Reply:One sure way to make spider plants grow really big is to remove as many of the stolons (the long stems with flowers and baby plants on) as possible. Only do this if you have as many spider plants as you need!


repot younger specimens (under 2 years old) several times a year. Older plants usually gets repotted at least once a year.


Care Tips - It is sensitive to overwatering so allow the compost to dry out a little between waterings. Give the plant plenty of humidity in the form of misting or the leaf tips will turn brown. Place in bright light or semi-shade, in a well-ventilated position or, in the summer, even outside, but away from direct sunlight. Temperatures not above 18°C/64°F in summer or below freezing in winter. Feed weekly from early spring to late summer. Chlorophytum is a quick grower and the parent plant may need repotting twice a year.


Trivia - Spider plants have the ability to clean the air. They take in and metabolise atmosphere pollutants and use them as food, thus reducing or eliminating some toxins. They are particularly good at removing carbon monoxide (car fumes), formaldehyde and nitrogen from the air.


The flowers are normal. If your plant has the baby plants growing on the stalks these are female plants. You must have your plant in a very good place. I have 2 but only one of them has ever grown a flower.
Reply:Yes, they do flower- i have never done anything with them. They are lovely.
Reply:That's nice - flowers show your plant is probably really happy! You don't have to do anything with them, but if they spoil the line of the plant, or become untidy, it's no problem to just cut them off.
Reply:hwey are 'baby' spider plants! Carry on what you are doing now to the plant and eventually the flowers will become plants in their own right. Then when a root or two appears at the base of the Small plant, plant it on!
Reply:Perfectly normal ... some long stems have just the little plants which you can root in water then plant ... and other long stems have flowers ... just


enjoy them ...unfortunately they have no noticeable scent
Reply:those are flowers


and they will turn into small plants.[ one of the common names of the spider plant is the walking plant , this plant in the wild has the habit of growing in the crotch of trees , in those little places where leaves and such collect and turns into soil. the plant will grow until the soil is almost depleted and then sends out those runners to find a new place to grow].


one of the things i have tried and found to be true is take a pot of soil set it near the mother plant and set the baby into the new pot pinning it down with a rock or a bobby pin.water it and after a while the baby will have it's own roots ,,,,cut the runner and give the baby away to someone moving into their own place.
Reply:They aren't flowers they are baby spider plants...... buy a plant book!!