Chlorophytum comosum (Spider Plant) Houseplant Care

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Ahhh, the spider plant. It's a great beginner plant. It's a giving plant. And it's one of those plants that will literally take over your space. I had a brief hiatus away from the spider for that reason, and brought it back and it's coming in hot as #226 in "365 Days of Plants".
In this video I'll discuss where it is originally native to, where I'm growing it in my home, and basics like light, watering and fertilizing.
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@TheSarahLindy 4 жыл бұрын

I was told once that this plants common Spanish name translates to “bad momma” because she “throws her babies away” 😂

@MrMyKidd 4 жыл бұрын

Mala Madre ;)

@prettypothos4me290 4 жыл бұрын

I prefer to think of them as helicopter moms. Just can’t let go.

@furkankurtuluss 3 жыл бұрын

omg that’s hilarious🤣

@ayseipektasdemir7991 3 жыл бұрын

Omg this is so good

@marthelenada6197 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. That’s true :)

@jlloydb1of9 4 жыл бұрын

I've had the same spider plant since I was in my 20s and my grandkids call it great great granny green because her spider's have spiders that have their own baby spiders all the way the floor.

@Sonder0077 4 жыл бұрын

Oh I bet that's a beauty to behold!

@melissacorey755 4 жыл бұрын

I know this comment is old but I wanted to add that mine is over 30 years old. Its such a great selling point! They live forever and can be passed down from generation to generation.

@losjk 4 жыл бұрын

this plant will tell you when it's time for repot by breaking the terra cotta pot in half with its roots haha true story

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

It's a beast plant.

@Madenice 4 жыл бұрын

Omg i just put in a glass pot 😱😂

@plantgurugangsta7299 3 жыл бұрын

Lol..ive been trying to find someone who actually experienced that, i heard its possible 😅

@channelrose1352 3 жыл бұрын

Mine did the same haha

@edwardlittlefield447 4 жыл бұрын

I think it is great how you not only cover the rare and hard to find plant species, but you also talk about the plants that are more common in cultivation. Cause everyone loves a good ole spider plant!!! They are always a reliable way to add some living green to a home.

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yeah, I'm trying to grab the whole spectrum of plants. It's good to highlight the old faithfuls, because that's what most folks have :)

@flederfox 4 жыл бұрын

I died when you referred to the roots as ghost carrots. Any other person would say parsnip, but our Summer Rayne... Ghost Carrots for life

@mathilda6763 3 жыл бұрын

A few months ago I actually beheaded one of my spiderplants when I tried to divide it, there was just the roots left. It took about 3 weeks until there was the first leaf and now its giant again. Those plants a nearly indestructible.

@sooth15 4 жыл бұрын

It's funny that this is considered a super easy beginner plant, and yet as someone who's had many plants for decades, I struggle with these for some reason. I have green one that is doing fine, but the variegated one is full of brown tips. It has gotten a bit better, and the new growth looks good. I ended up bringing that one to work, so I'm keeping a closer eye on it.

@gratefulMOMent 4 жыл бұрын

How’s it growing? If it’s in your office you should give it old old black coffee! They like it. I water mine, add coffee, then rinse the leaves so it doesn’t stain them.

@fabiocarvalho2105 4 жыл бұрын

"I don't want you to have any other plants, but me!" 😅😅😅😅😅

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

I swear, that's how it is!

@fabiocarvalho2105 4 жыл бұрын

@@summerrayneoakes I know! I have a variegated one, and it's really kinda like that! That's why it was so funny 😂

@barbll000 4 жыл бұрын

The Spider Plant is certainly a tried and true beginner plant that keeps on giving.

@JohnJames. 4 жыл бұрын

I like the old classics getting a highlight. I got seeds from mine this year

@haniashkir1670 Жыл бұрын

I believe this is rare spider plant at the end of 2019 I bought this spider plant from Old shop in East London,since that time it gave so much babies now in my kitchen everywhere there is a full green spider plant.happy to gave it.

@burstallpass4394 4 жыл бұрын

So glad you mentioned the lighting. In my experience these plants grow best in my lower light areas of my home. I have scorched too many to these beautiful lush plants.

@petercardona1559 4 жыл бұрын

👻 🥕... My spider plant scares me now 🤣

@carmaela2689 3 жыл бұрын

Calathea, no problem. Fittonia, no problem. Cacti and succulents, no problem. Aroids, philodendrons, orchids, palms, no problem. Spider plants - always die on me 🤔

@theunmobablespes6582 4 жыл бұрын

THE most popular Office plant :) i like it, it's so cute, nice looking and easy to take care of. Give it shady light and enough water and it will grow like crazy. Much love from Germany.

@prettypothos4me290 4 жыл бұрын

Forty some years ago when I had my first house I hung a varigated spider plant in a west facing picture window. I didn’t know any better, but was really lucky because it never burned and had more than a hundred babies which grew and hung from it all at once. Had it for years and years, but looking back don’t remember who I gave it to when life got busy as the kids grew up. My four curly and varigated have been getting morning sun. I guess I need to watch them. Maybe they won’t be as tough as my old one.

@daisyduke717 4 жыл бұрын

Ghost carrots! 😆 Love that analogy!

@chelseamullins7000 4 жыл бұрын

Yaassss I love spider plants!! I love the ghost carrot description... Very accurate 👻🥕😂😂 I have the Curly Spider and two that have opposite variegations... One is green on the outside with white stripes down the middle and the other has green stripes down the middle with white on the outside...I just had that one bloom with so many little white flowers and I got so excited because I didn't know they would flower!! I thought it was just putting off little babies

@shoulders-of-giants 4 жыл бұрын

I have a huge pot full of green spider plants and I never repotted them. They have been in that pot for years and they are fine. Too fine.

@hannahlangford 4 жыл бұрын

This sounds suspicious😂

@h.m.8696 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of my favorite plants. I also like the snake plant. My spider plant has grown beautifully. I have even started growing three new spiderette plants, from the mother plant.

@plantsandpiggies7758 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Just wantd to let you know where I live, Sydney Australia, spider plants are grown outside as ground cover in garden beds.

@misseskval2686 4 жыл бұрын

That is interesting! I bet they look awesome as a groundcover.

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool. Great addition to this thread!

@malcolmlisson4740 4 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm in Perth & mine get burnt tips in a morning sun position! I brought one indoors & it looks 100% better with deeper green leaves. (Sue )

@traceyg2703 4 жыл бұрын

I have some of the variegated kind that I moved outside ( I'm in California ) - some of their babies took root in the ground and are growing fine out there. I grow both the solid green ones and the striped ones in pots outside as well, all of which look more vibrantly colored than my indoor ones, ( but none are in full sun).

@jasminush 4 жыл бұрын

This is the plant that got me into plants, i call it Mother Plant because it makes a lot of babies and I also got it from my mother. It's a great plant to start with if somebody wants to get .....planty :D

@shoulders-of-giants 4 жыл бұрын

Those green chlorophytums are the best

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

Good old faithful.

@aida087 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video Summer!! I LOVE Spider plants!! My very first plant ever was a variegated Spider plant that I got back in 2005, grew to 2 feet and had 3 babies!! Unfortunately I lost them all to scale and the brutal Winter of 2016. I'm happy to say though I have 3 all-green Spider plants and the largest one just gave birth to 1 baby and 3 more on the way on the same stalk!! And always love seeing the white flowers!!💖😏😍

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see if you get sick of all the kids it will eventually put out. My dad had 1 spider and now it's taken over his house! Can't buy enough planters for all of them at the auctions haha.

@aida087 4 жыл бұрын

@@summerrayneoakes LOL really, NOO I definitely don't want THAT many!!😄😄😄

@genevievebeaulieu5030 4 жыл бұрын

Someone gave me one of these, but didn't tell me what it was, and I was just wondering today what the little offshoot was! Perfect timing :)

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

Glad the timing worked out!

@suminithin2343 4 жыл бұрын

Please do a tour on ur dad's plants

@JA-xv3qp 4 жыл бұрын

I killed my spider plant, but my Caletheas are thriving.... Nothing is right in this dammed house I swear.

@oeendrila 3 жыл бұрын

Same!!

@babarali4938 4 жыл бұрын

i actually plucked one from a road side pot because solid green ones are a bit difficult to find in my area but sometime i feel sorry that i STOLE it

@ninacast12 4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha same for me with my snake plant. Stole only a baby but still feel a little guilty.

@ikyitching 4 жыл бұрын

It reminds me great power comes with great responsibility!

@tinamarieussery3063 4 жыл бұрын

Looking goog was given several end of this summe. In spring I'm going to plant in hanging baskets. I plan on filling my bedroom window with them.

@shirleywang5345 4 жыл бұрын

It’s not a beginner plant for me 😂 my every other plants are happy except for my spider plant.

@hollyhasegawa6095 4 жыл бұрын

I have the spider plant that has the green center and white edges, I have had this plant for over 15 years and I was thinking the other day I need to get in and repot it, cause there are so many plants in the same pot, if I divided it I would probably have about 6 or more plants, maybe even a number I don't want to think about, lol. I am looking for the curly spider plant, and to have the all green one would be fun as well. I grow mine in a north facing window pulled back about a foot or so and she seems happy. Thanks Summer another great plant and I look forward to tomorrow's plant.

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

I think the curly one is called "Bonnie" .... and I share your same fear: IF I repot these, each of these will become gargantuan!

@iddybiddyladybugleeza262 4 жыл бұрын

My grandma had a huge one when I was a kid! I think I have 5 different varieties of spider plants 👍🏼👍🏼

@goddess131 4 жыл бұрын

I love this plant, its just that my cat likes to chew this plant too much. Thank you for this video Summer.

@mondraymondo 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting I always see the variegated form (with white straight line in the middle) and never thought to see their 'original' form :)

@Selestrielle 4 жыл бұрын

Plant: Thicc roots You: Ghost... carrots?

@mariaarias1703 4 жыл бұрын

I have this plant and i love it. Im growing second one cuz i want atlease 4

@JP-nl6lb Жыл бұрын

Thank you. =)

@moumoun7 4 жыл бұрын

The spider plant is definitely a giving plant! lots and lots of babies. Summer, is it ok to leave the babies attached to the mother plant or is it stressing the plant too much? There must be about 50 of them. I've repotted about a dozen already and given some to friends. Just in the last 6 months! It's absolutely beautiful and thriving. So what do you think? Leave it? Divide it? Repot the babies elsewhere? Thanks! By the way, you are my inspiration for starting my incredibly satisfying journey in the world of house plants. Thanks for all your incredible, smart and informative content!

@kathymacomber4502 4 жыл бұрын

Killed one so I’m interested

@iddybiddyladybugleeza262 4 жыл бұрын

Kathy MAcomber bright light some say low light but I disagree (but the more variegation the more light) & don’t over water think of Africa it’s pretty dry there!

@cathyspooner7093 11 ай бұрын

I started out with 1curly spider now have 4 and they all yave babies i have 4 regular spider plants. Plus they all have babies. And about 15 cups of starter babies

@santiasantiago7263 Жыл бұрын

In Spanish the Spider Plant is called, Mala Madre. It stranslates to "bad mother" because it has its babies away from her.

@Ash-yh5oy 3 жыл бұрын

My spider plant is lighter on the edges of the leaves and recently a few leaves seemed to almost break under their own weight.

@MrMyKidd 4 жыл бұрын

A friend from Cuba told me it is known as "Mala Madre" there.

@stardoll1995 4 жыл бұрын

My experience with Spider plants is really bad though. 😅 I cannot seem to be able to keep one alive no regardless of what I do and I have way harder plants in terms of care so I have no clue what I'm doing wrong. 😂

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

Where are you growing yours?

@jackie_jrml 4 жыл бұрын

Same! I have had 3. All died within 1 month. I have all sorts of plants indoors in Florida (lower light inside now) but I only manage to kill spider plants. They all were kinda soaking wet when I got them and then I fussed with them a lot too. Uggg.

@foxsaint1051 4 жыл бұрын

@@jackie_jrml over watering is the only thing that kills spider plants and it takes ALOT to do it (root rot) so probs to much h20..

@StrangeDisposition 4 жыл бұрын

I like this one more than the variegated version but I don’t want it because they have too many babies! Maybe later though!

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, tooooooo many babies....

@XPrincess30 4 жыл бұрын

So mean to call its blooms “really insignificant” :(

@Arokhantos 4 жыл бұрын

Mine became 10 times bigger just in front of a north window and is varigated ocean type.

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

haha I can see it just encompass your whole window!

@Arokhantos 4 жыл бұрын

@@summerrayneoakes it definitely takes up 40% of it even gets a lot light from a east roof window 6 meters away fully dries out during summer every 5 days still blooms 5x flowers every day now

@dewyhoncoop1149 2 жыл бұрын

I have a pure yellow offset on stem between two variegated offsets. There is only 1/4” between it and the next variegated baby. There are green and variegated parent plants in the pot together. Will it survive when disconnected from the mother, and what kind of care should it get?

@devanste50 3 жыл бұрын

Hey nice video thanks for sharing, I have a all green one and it’s growing to one side of the pot n some of the roots are showing on the top what should I do add more soil or just repot it ? 👍🏾😃🙋🏾‍♀️.

@venomousinfluence777 4 жыл бұрын

Nice :)

@DorothyChao 4 жыл бұрын

I could use some help.. I think I have a "spider plant curse"! Like you, they were my first plants, and I loved them. Then maybe 10 years ago, the ones I had started to develop a problem with the growing centers. The leaves would remain curled up in tube shape and start to wilt and turn brown. This has happened CONSISTENTLY with every new spider plant that I have gotten! Do you have any suggestions about what the problem might be and how I can solve it? PS: I have maybe 100 other tropical plants, mostly aroids, that are thriving! Help!

@Stoneylfm 3 жыл бұрын

Just wondering.. did you change house? Maybe the water has something in it spiders don’t like I dunno 🤷🏻‍♀️ it’s interesting

@DorothyChao 3 жыл бұрын

@@Stoneylfm It started where we had lived for maybe 10 years. The problem followed me when we moved to Arizona 10 years ago...

@saltisami 3 жыл бұрын

"ghost carrots" sounds really scary

@fiona4228 3 жыл бұрын

Can anyone help with a question about my spider plant? I have a five-year-old spider plant that put out 8 stolens for the first time this year and many spiderettes. I've been propagating the baby plants all summer, but am not sure what to do with the stolens -- should I cut them off or just leave them on the mother plant? Thanks so much.

@bridgetbridget9922 3 жыл бұрын

Just leave them. They will continue to produce babies. When they become dormant (usually in October to February I believe is the spider plants dormant months) they won't produce the babies. You can cut it then, you can wait and see if it is done with producing the babies and dries up and turns brown and cut it or, just leave it. I was just reading some article where this one grower said she leaves them on and that they produce babies on the same stolon for her for a couple of years while also growing new stolons each year. I've got 4 with stolons now. 3 are my variegated and they have 3 main stolons on each plant and on their main stolons are now secondary stolons growing from the middle of the main stolon and each one is going crazy with babies.

@fiona4228 3 жыл бұрын

@@bridgetbridget9922 Thanks so much for answering my question. This is very helpful and I appreciate the additional information about stolon behavior.

@she_sings_delightful_things 2 жыл бұрын

How much water to give? How often? Thanks!

@iarroyo612 4 жыл бұрын

Mala Madre nickname in Spanish the all green one Mal padre 🌿😁

@somthpn1668 4 жыл бұрын

Hi can you recommend the full sun hacking plants for me ❤

@Arokhantos 4 жыл бұрын

My pure green one i grown from seed started to go much bigger now and holy shit those leafs are 10 times more sturdy then the variegated one, maybe its cos i had mine in 15 cm tiny pot while being 2 times bigger then the one in this video.

@Sookielein 3 жыл бұрын

I have the bonny one and no matter what I do I cannot make it happy. It's barely surviving.

@thevineyardplanter 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Summer is it a reverted one? I have this pure green ones as well as the variegated one.

@sharoncox1734 4 жыл бұрын

I've had my spider plants for maybe three years and still no babies. Lovely healthy foliage though. I have tried to neglect them because I was told they thrive on neglect and they broke the plastic pot they were in with their roots, but still no babies 🤔

@gratefulMOMent 4 жыл бұрын

Is yours all green? I have an all green one that does not get the babies on the long shoots like the other kinds of spider plants I’ve had. It’s more of a mounding habit.

@sujitlosang6005 4 жыл бұрын

Why my cat always eat this plant to the base today is 3rd time she eating in 3 month

@Ambuttx 3 жыл бұрын

It gets them high

@Ambuttx 3 жыл бұрын

Like cat nip

@ilonaxxx20 4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that mine looks like a piece of shit. .....That’s why I am here actually- to search why it looks like a piece of shit. :D but after seeing so much, I think that mine looks actually very good and healthy.

@ek585 4 жыл бұрын

Zaire? Ummm.... There was an update to that name before our time. And it’s not a preference thing, it’s a whole new member state.

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you're right. DRC right?

@rm709 4 жыл бұрын

Do yellowing leaves indicate too much water? I have mine in a tropical soil mix but I've been watering when it felt dry- I'm afraid too much. How can I get the plant to bounce back? It's in a SW facing window but on the far side of the room hanging from a plant hook. Ideas?

@traceyg2703 4 жыл бұрын

In my experience, the yellowed leaves happen with too much direct light and/or too much water. The ones that were over-watered seem sort of translucent/transparent, limp yellow, and the one in too much sunlight has firm, strong leaf consistency, but appears "bleached" in color.

@theunmobablespes6582 4 жыл бұрын

Sw window is too bright i think. Got mine NE and it's doing fine, these plants like it a bit more shady than usual.

@azeldafan4578 4 жыл бұрын

Aren’t there a bunch of different species?

@summerrayneoakes 4 жыл бұрын

There are different species of Chlorphytum, yes. And lots of different varieties.

@fatou1975 10 ай бұрын

Zaïre doesn’t exist anymore, it’s now called DRC since 1997.

@floorluna 4 жыл бұрын

Every week or other week i soak my plants in water.Yes drown them It takes what it needs and thats it. Make sure your pots get holes to let the water out. Its not that diffucult.

@foxsaint1051 4 жыл бұрын

your spider plant looks thirsty...

@oeendrila 3 жыл бұрын

My spider plant is dying after a year. Don’t kn9 what to do.

@unicargspatjy 4 жыл бұрын

summer!! omg can i have a shout out???? pleaaaseee im a HUUUGGEE fan of yours from the Philippines!!!

@ayseipektasdemir7991 3 жыл бұрын

İn turkey its called bow plants ı dont know why

@nancyzurn4774 4 жыл бұрын

I missed the suggestions for when to water spider plant?

@gratefulMOMent 4 жыл бұрын

Did you figure it out? I noticed that if I wait until my spider looks “faded” like dull leaves/less shiny foliage I give it a nice long drink. I also give mine old cold coffee from my hubby’s office. I pour the black coffee in after I water. Then I water again to get the coffee off the leaves. I get soooo many babies this way 😉😉🌱♥️

@FRANCESCA01234 3 жыл бұрын

@@gratefulMOMent really? Coffee emcourages babies?