Beginner Gardening: Potting up a spider plant, 1 by purpleinopp

purpleinopp wrote:
Please don't put it in the ground in FL! Not fun to dig these back up, after realizing it's taking over your property. The babies take root, still connected to the mama, creating a solid and ever-expanding patch that will trip anyone trying to walk through them, excellent haven for inviting snakes. The big roots (like white carrots) these plants make are at least a foot deep in the ground, going straight down. I kept them in pots for almost 40 years and they always decline after the roots fill the pot, getting brown tips on the leaves, then I saw why after digging up a patch of them at my Mom's house (that started as 5 cute little babies put there a few years before.) Unless a pot is quite deep, spider plants never get a chance to make mature roots in pots.

These are gone though seedlings are still sprouting occasionally in that spot.