Spider plant - is this a new “shoot”?

[Maggiethecat]

Have a few of these “shoot” like appendages on this plant.

if that’s the case what do I need to do to create new plants?

Yes that’s a new spider plant. Gently separate the mini plant from the bigger plant, stick in a pot with compost in and give it a water. Easy peasy

Yup, you’re getting a little spider baby!

I’m sure someone much more knowledgeable will be along to give you the official advice, but I just snip the baby off the mother plant once it looks well established (like yours does) and pot it into a small pot.

It’s worked so far for me and my mother plant now has four healthy babies dotted around the house.

Same as pp said! I've let the babies on ours get far too big and I've no space to transplant them all, and nobody to take a baby off me. I hate the idea of snipping it off and letting it die though.

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin and @Whadda - sounds brilliant!

I was going to snip them off and put them in water until roots appeared but I’ll do as you say and put them in compost.

This is why I don't want a spider plant, all the spider babies! I couldn't bin them, i can't keep them all. Is there some way of getting them neutered?

I think you just snip the runner before anything starts! Mine started a new runner recently whilst still growing 5 babies so I nipped that in the bud. Heh.

I remember the spider plant hell. Babies coming out me lugs. Enjoy them taking over your house

That's a good idea. Can you circle them back and pot them with mum, if, say, the pot needed filling out? Cut the.....umbilicus when it's rooted?

You don't need to wait, I've transplanted them successfully by just potting them as-is.

Plant equivalent of tribbles?

They will be very happy hanging off mum. You don’t need to pot them up.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who feels guilty if I don't pot up the babies. Snipping them off and binning them feels all kinds of wrong!

I feel bad now. I snipped off all the babies because the mum plant was poorly.

You need a cat for that.

Bastard. Left me with only 3679164916916491697694736 babies to find homes for.

I've been taken over.

I’ll have someone’s baby! I managed to kill mine during the heat wave when I forgot to water it!

I have a problem with aloe vera pups though. Due to my neglect, my mummy one is thriving and last year, I potted up over 50 pups! I managed to sell a lot at my WI with proceeds going to charity but no one wants any more. I ended up putting them outside my house to get rid of the last ones. I’m not potted anymore, just going to let them grow alongside mummy!

I've just counted and we actually have 8 babies, so I could send you an entire menagerie, @Ilovetocrochet 😅

I got a Pilea late last year, apparently they send out lots of offsets. I'm interested to see what it does when we get decent daylight and it starts growing.

@Uninterestedfamily That’s a beauty!

@Ilovetocrochet We’ve had an aloe Vera in the downstairs loo for a few years now (poor thing) but I’ve not seen any babies appear, what do they look like?

I’m so jealous.

If I lived near you, I’d definitely be up for an aloe/spider swap!

I find Tradescantia great for propagation. Literally snip some off, place in soil, and off it goes. Easiest plant ever.

I also have a propagated monkey mask monstera on the go. It rooted well in water but ha dinky been so-so since I planted it in soil. We shall see.

You can do either. Or both.

If you have loads of offspring you can use them as foliage in outdoors summer baskets and tubs, until the frosts see them off.

The babies look like mini aloe vera’s! They pop up through the soil, usually towards the edge of the pot.

You can also make cuttings by cutting off a leaf, cutting it into 1 inch pieces and just putting in compost. I think I left the bits for a couple of days first so the ends dried up. There are loads of YouTube clips to show you what to do but it is really easy.