Spider plant, spider plant, does whatever a spider can't...

[rahirah]

So has anyone ever tried growing spider plants from seed? I've never known spider plants to propagate save by runners, but the one on my desk at work has little white flowers on its runners, which eventually set into seed pods. I've been collecting the seeds as they ripen, and I am sorely tempted to go all Gregor Mendel on their leafy asses just

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[typographer]

The spider plant on my kitchen windowsill is a clone of a clone of a clone of a spider plant Ray's mother bought for my office many years ago.

I've collected seeds off all the plants and tried to grow them a few times, and have had no success. But then, I've also managed over the years to kill several generations of clone of the original spider plant--so maybe it's me.

But if I pull off the spiderlings and sprout them in water, I have no trouble growing new plants.

[rahirah]

Well, some plants require freakishly exactly conditions in order for their seeds to sprout, so who knows...

[framefolly]

I didn't know what spider plants were called until now, and now I have an irrational fear of them ;) .

[rahirah]

Well, if it helps, they're also called airplane plants...

[framefolly]

I see the resemblance to spiders, but...airplanes?

*confoozled*

[rahirah]

I dunno, I just heard that name a few weeks ago. Maybe it's because the baby plants reminded someone of a model airplane hung on a string?