I never felt compelled to do anything with them. They are a disposable.

Any idea if leaving the spiderettes attached is detrimental to the momma? Or any space saving, multiple plant hanging ideas? I've never had one that I thought was an especially attractive plant so normally I would agree with ya but my boyfriend is a total hoarder and he insists on keeping every single one (ughhhhh!). The white center stripe must have great genes or something (maybe that's the norm and I just never noticed). I don't want them to lose their perky shape and go flat and get sparse if it's sending all it's energy to the babies. We have plenty of property for plants outside in the summer but the house is a cave and I'm reserving all the good window space for the plants that matter!!

Should you know an internet savvy geek ask them to try and find a spider plant site in the Internet Archives Wayback Machine. It should have Eva somewhere in the name. The language may be Swedish. It had some fabulous pictures. I am just not keen enough to find it.

I've never noticed a difference in vigour between the green centre or green edged versions. Perhaps something else is going on. And I leave the babies alone. That way the plant can hang several feet down from a shelf. That seems to me half the point of spider plants. This one's a relative youngster. Its much bigger now and is currently outside on its summer holiday.

They are non toxic to cats and cats love them.

Hahaha chippedchinaplate, are you suggesting a cat play toy?! That's so funny! That's the kind of out of the box thinking I'm looking for!

Floral_uk, I love the shape of that pot for a spiderplant. That looks great. Is it potted near the top like normal or deeper in the pot? I like how the leaves drape over the pot like that. Hmm...maybe I should experiment keeping them more or less potbound.

I am hoping to find a strawberry pot to stuff full of them, to make it look like a really bad hair day, but in a good way! I have a Hawaiian with a regular spider and a couple of starts of golden pothos. These plants seem to love being in the same pot so far. It does not sound that exciting, but friends comment on this pot more than any others.

I didn't know they were called strawberry pots until yesterday but i was thinking the same thing! I have 2 but they're just regular tan plastic, nothing cute and exciting. Hopefully the spider plants drape over it nicely to hide that! Apparently strawberry pots full of succulents are the new trend so I bet the pots are gonna get easier to find. Thanks for the companion suggestions! A lot of times keeping it simple has more of an impact than we could predict

You can just leave the babies attached, also they work really well in mixed containers or window boxes with shade plants like impatiens.

It is kind of amazing how nice spiders look with other plants. Have fun, I hope we get a picture.

chrissy, that's just a cheap metal cachepot. The plant's in a plastic pot inside.

There are more runners on the other side, and I cut 3 of them off last night to put in water.

I under plant with them all the time