I have a spider plant with alota babies growing from it,anyone know how to repot them?

Spider plants are very easy. When the mother plant gets its roots pot-bound it starts throwing babies. Get one of those silver pans they sell to bake things in. Fill it with potting soil and water it well. Cut a baby spider off just above the new plant. Some of the mature babies actually have roots growing off the bottom already. Take those first. Push them down into the soil to cover those little roots. You can pack them in really close to each other. Keep the pan where it is a little cool and out of the direct sunlight. Water a little, once a week. In a few weeks the babies will have solid roots systems. When they reach this stage, I transplant each one into a large size plastic cup (you can get a bag of 50 of them at the grocery store). I poke a hole in the bottom of the cup so it has drainage. After a couple of months you can move them into regular pots. They REALLY like to have their roots pot-bound so let the roots fill the cup before moving on to a larger pot. I've even had these youngsters still in the cups start to throw out babies!


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I have a spider plant with alota babies growing from it,anyone know how to repot them?
I found the 2 best ways to do it is to either clip it and put it in water or leave it on the plant and stick it in soil this way it is still fed by the mother Plant till it grows roots then just clip it off and your ready to go
Reply:If you see little roots, you can plant them in little pots after cutting the long stem off. Sometimes I put them in a little jar of water until they are showing more roots, then pot them up.
Reply:Only cut off the babies that have roots already. Place these in a pot with potting soil and push them down slightly. Keep the soil moist until they take. If your spider starts creating too many babies re-pot it. All of the strength will go into creating the babies and they mother plant will do poorly.
Reply:Pinch the runner and put the baby on moist soil. Keep soil moist. Plant will root. You can also place a pot of moist soil under baby while still connected to mommy and it will root.
Reply:Stick them in moist dirt is the easiest, same as rubber plant leaves.
Reply:Place the starts in a glass of water until a root system gets started then you can repot.
Reply:Just put them in another pot of dirt and water regularly. They will take very easily!! Then give them away as x-mas gifts or sell them on e-bay. :-)