What is this growing from my spider plant?

[PennyPlum]

I ordered a spider plant baby online and it's been flourishing in the kitchen for a few months now, it's sprouted lots of leaves and recently what looks like a stem, quite firm to touch, with a node and leaves growing from that. As I understood it, when it gives babies they come from the ends of the leaves and are quite clear that it's a baby spider plant? I'm just a bit confused at what this is and if it's a baby can anyone tell me how to get this growing seperately so I don't damage the mother plant? Betty is very dear to me being the only plant I've had from a baby

Apologies for being a noob!

Here's the strange stem

And Betty

Keep it growing and a new baby one will appear on the end of the stick thing when it does if you want to grow it seperately plant the baby in a pot by the side. Once that looks established enough then you can cut off the stalk between the two.

It’s been a while since I’ve owned one, I believe a flower then a baby mini plant.

Ah that looks different to how I remember, mine had whitish shoots and they sort of of dangled down.

You'll not love it as much when you've got a million babies to foist on the school for the summer fair

Cut it off and chuck it in the bin is my advice.

The leaves of your spider plant looks slightly different to mine. They look wider and more green. Mine has more white stripes.

The runner that comes out of the ones I've owned has been yellow in colour. The baby clone will appear at the end.

They are great plants. Look after themselves and it's easy to pot up the babies. They normally do v well. The students at school so it every year when we do asexual reproduction. They take the babies home for mother's day etc

Gamer

Thanks everyone, thrilled she's come on so much to want to multiply, the bedrooms could do with a bit of greenery. Saw one the other day at a friends and went green when I saw how many babies were coming off her neglected plant! They're so cute!

User I totally agree, I have so many house plants but she's my fave

It’ll become a flower and then a little plant.

I just cut off the babies and either pot up or root them in water, they don't need to stay attached to the mother plant IME.

However, I think yours is a different cultivar to mine and other posters so may or may not behave exactly the same

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophytum_comosum

• C. comosum 'Vittatum' has mid-green leaves with a broad central white stripe. It is often sold in hanging baskets to display the plantlets.[2] The long stems are white.
• C. comosum 'Variegatum' has darker green leaves with white margins. It is generally smaller than the previous cultivar.[2] The long stems are green.

I always called them Spiderlets.

Wish I still had my old plant, Triff (as in Triffid). I got him as a baby when I was 15 from a monster plant in my English Teacher's classroom and kept him going for 15 years until my prick of an ex chucked him out.

Have you seen the price of the plants now? It used to be you couldn't give the things away.

Is there any harm in leaving the babies on the mother plant ?

Nah. And they look cool. Just pot up any that get knocked off or grow a bit too large.

Errol thank you, I'll wait until they've rooted a little and pot it up and see what happens.

MitziK I'm sorry that sucks. I had no idea they could get that old.

Floral, no! The one I saw at a friends had at least 2/3 dozen falling off it and looked beautiful.

Mines only a little over 3 months old so I'm pretty amazed it's started already!

The babies come from stems not from the ends of leaves. But looking at that stem, I think there's a good chance that those are flower buds. The stems with babies are more arching, and the babies themselves quickly grow into neat clusters of leaves.