How To Propagate Spider Plants

If you frequently hang out with me here on the blog, you may recall the post all about spider plants! They are one of the easiest to grow and propagate house plants that I have found. I got my first spider plant in 5th grade when we brought them home as a Mother’s Day gift. I thought it was so neat that we got a piece of the plant that was in our classroom to take home! From that plant, I propagated and gave plants to other members of the family. Many plant generations later… I recently transplanted 20 new spider plants into dirt! Yes! 20! So, of course, I figured it would be fun to write a post about how to easily propagate spider plants! 🙂

One of the people that I had gifted a spider plant baby to was my grandma. She recently moved and wasn’t able to take all of her plants with her, so many found a home at my place. Her spider plant is huge and had many, many babies growing from it! When I got it home, I cut off all the babies to form new plants… hence the 20 new baby plants haha!

Spider plants have little babies that grow on the end of a long stem. The first will form little flowers and then little baby plants!

After the plant gets a little bigger, cut off the baby plant leaving 1/4 to 1/2 inch of stem. I like to make sure they are a size that will fit well in a small pot before I cut them off, but use your judgement! The ones that I took off the plant from grandma were huge! I also have successfully grown plants as small as the one pictured above. Place the baby plant base into a glass or mason jar filled with water. You can plant a couple of days later or wait for roots to start to form. I generally transplant into dirt after 2-3 days because I don’t want the leaves to rot.

This spider plant had little roots growing after 3 days! Out of the 20 that I transplanted, only about 5 had noticeable root growth. Don’t worry too much about not seeing roots, I have had lots of success growing these by transplanting into dirt without root growth! Honestly, I have had success growing the plant by just cutting off the baby and sticking it in dirt as well! These are really hardy house plants!

Before you know it… you will have way more spider plants than you know what to do with! Nobody ever says they have too many houseplants… right??? Good luck and let me know how it goes for you! 🙂