Spider plant with young in my kitchen

Cette plante araignée est superbe ++++++++++++++

Merci beaucoup pour votre très gentil commentaire. J'ai beaucoup de ces plantes d'araignées, mais c'est la seule dans la cuisine et celle que Emily avait prise pour les bébés.

Such fun, Jenny. I know this picture belongs to a wonderful post that I have not yet read but I am here visiting the first picture in your stream and so I will let you know how much I adore spider plants and have since I was a kid. I would plant the babies and had so many pots of them, which then had babies of their own...there comes a point at which one must stop! :D

I am so happy to be home so that I can chat with you more often! I am also dropping off the following blurb to folks who visited my past picture(s) while I was away and so I'll paste it for you too! :)

I also wanted to say thank you for coming by to visit my last picture(s) while I was away on my vacation without a chance to reciprocate. It was wonderful to get your response and attention, and meant a lot for me to be able to read comments if I had any internet connection at all. Thanks for making me feel so cared-about! (This is a copy-paste to everyone who commented on my previous picture...I wanted to make sure everyone got a thank-you!) :)

So good to hear from you Janet. I'm so pleased that you are happy to be home, but you mentioned that it seemed huge compared to your RV. I felt like that when I came home after my time in Turkey, the rooms seemed so big, but now I've been home for quite a while, I feel that they're normal !!!!!!

As for the spider plants - yes I seem to have always had some. I've got some in water in the hall, because it seems to prefer it there, as well as being in water. Emily saw the one above, and wanted to grow some, so I took some babies off and soaked them in water and gave them to her when roots had started to grow. You'll have to read the blog then you'll see what I mean!!!

LOL, yes, it doesn't take time to readjust to the palatial space in our house but you know, it's very nice to have everything compact and within an arm's reach most of the time. :)

I enjoyed reading your blog too, those spider plants do love to multiply! I have done a bit of reading about them too...turns out that if you nip off the stalk that emerges before the baby plants start growing, all of the energy used for this monumental task is funnelled into the mother plant and this will make it healthier and less scraggly looking. I tried this when I had these plants and darned if it didn't make my spider plant fuller and more vibrant looking! Since then I would allow mama to make one stalk once every few months but only allowed one baby plant to grow. When it was a nice size I removed it and the stalk. My mother and babies were very large and healthy by caring for them this way--give it a try and let me know how it goes! Also, I used Jobe's Plant Spikes and WOW, what a response! Heh...now I want a spider plant again!! Haven't had one for so many years...that would be fun...hmmm....

Wow, thanks Janet. I hadn't heard of this, so I will nip off the babies on this plant, and then keep the mother plant without babies for a while - don't laugh - but it sounds cruel to deny that plant her babies!!!!!! LOL I'm going to have to go and find a life!!

I'm working every day making square blocks for the patchwork quilting, so I don't get down to the computer until late afternoon/early evening. I'm really enjoying it, I think it's probably because I'm doing a completely different pattern to the ones I've made before. I'm not really following a pattern, I'm making it up as I go along (I hope it'll look okay).

LOLOL, I know how you feel...it's so odd to have those feelings but I am the same way! :D You will be delighted, though, by the revitilization this will give your plant! She'll thank you with vigorous health and glowing leaves! :)

Wonderful to hear about your quilting blocks. So creative and cool, Jenny. You are just flowing along, creating as you go, I just love it! Can't wait to see your finished masterpiece but of course I can wait...it will be fun to see when you are done! :)