it’s the coolest houseplant, to be sure
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009I didn’t know that spider plants flowered! I only discovered this recently when the plant on my kitchen windowsill threw a plantlet off and little white blossoms appeared.
Granted, I don’t know much about spider plants or houseplants in general. I mean, I have a few, a ficus and some other varieties of which I know not the names. I have two spider plants, one in the kitchen and one in the bathroom. I got them by cutting off plantlets from the spider plant at CKUW 95.9 FM. Those of you familiar with the station might say, “Wait — the CKUW studios/offices don’t have any windows!” That is absolutely true. And yet, a spider plant has survived with only the sustenance of flourescent lighting and the occasional watering. That tells you something about the hardiness of this particular plant.
The Wikipedia page for the plant (properly known as Chlorophytum comosum) says that while you can propagate new plants by cutting off a plantlet and rooting it through soaking in water, the process works better/ faster if you root the plantlet directly in soil while still attached to the parent plant.