Spider Plant Babies
/Sometime in spring/summer 2011 I decided I wanted a house plant. A spider plant seemed a good fit for me since I never killed the one I had as a teenager. I almost bought one from a home improvement store, but Jeff said to wait. It turns out that one of his coworkers is an amazing spider plant grower and offered me a medium sized "baby" from his "parent" plant. I named the plant ZP because I'm a weirdo who names plants. ZP lived on the deck until it got chilly, in the kitchen window until the cats started eating it, then moved to its current home in the guest bedroom window. ZP has produced 6 babies which are now medium sized. For this post, I'm going to root/plant the babies from "adult babies" as well as ZP.
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