ENCYCLOPLANTS

 

The Spider plant is a very common house plant which is well known to be a very good air purifier effective at cleaning the air, the Spider plant is a light green and white colour grass type plant and when well looked after the colours can be extremely deep and eye catching.

 

The spider plant can survive in many conditions from wet, dry, sunny or in shade. The best conditions for the spider plant is in part shade to full sun, if exposed to too much intense sun the end of the leaves will turn brown and die. The Spider plant requires watering when dry in the summer can be anything from once to three times a week depending on conditions, during winter months move away from windows as cold and frost will kill the leaves and only water when dry during winter months.

 

Propagation of the Spider plant is by rooting the offsets produced during the spring/summer/autum, the offsets are produced on long stems that flower as well, each plant can produce about 5 plants per stem and a mature well co ditioned plant will produce 2-4 stems a year, these plants on the stems need to simply be placed in moist compost whilst connected to the mother plant and will root within 2-3 weeks. Spider plants when big enough can be divided to produce new plants as well.