This is my Spider Plant. I've had it for over 2 years. It has approximately 10 or so plantlets growing right now. It's in an 8in pot and mainly grown with grow lights, though now it sits in a Northeast window and minus the cat attacking the plantlet runners, it seems pretty happy.

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That's a pretty big one. How old does the plant have to be before it will send off shoots ( babies) ?

Mine didn't start sending off plantlets until it turned 2, so I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure it can do it before then. And I think I read somewhere that having it somewhat tight in the pot helps to induce plantlets as well.

There was a recent thread where a member was showing off her spider plant she'd bought for fifty cents from K-Mart.
Here's the thread.
Here's the "after" pic.
There are some other good Spider Plant pics in the member's "photostream".

Here's a recent, long thread about Spider Plants.

Yet another Spider Plant thread from earlier this year.

One last Spider Plant thread.

Those are links to the interesting spider plant threads from just the first 10 pages of this forum. I think that's enough for now....

Yes, I recently learned how to embed links within a message It's fun!

Aww Oklahoma Tim.. I am flattered you shared my pictures of my spiders. I have a few more pictures of some spider plants that I was trying to load to my Flikr account, but for the life of me, can not remember my log in info. Once I get a new account set up, I will share some pictures.

I wont be able to take a pic of mine until wednesday,but I know I cut my plants down to about an inch about the soil just before the growing season starts,because the leaves made during winter if any tend to be skinny and wimpy.

If not under lights,you should turn your spider every other day so it doesn't grow all lopsided.

If made happy,spiders grow pretty darn fast,I had one fill up a new pot in two months.

They can also take direct sunlight if happy,well,atleast mine does,and it just grows better,no brown tips,no problems.

Mine make babies if I let it get rootbound or forget to water it for a bit,or give it fertilizer for once.I actually dont like the babies,so I tend to not let mine bloom.

Also,don't try to grow them outside.All the foliage on mine turned yellow and started to die the moment I put it outside.

Sorry for the long post...