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Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Chlorophytum comosum - 'Spider Plant'

There were quite a few Chlorophytum comosum or Spider Plants growning amoungst the rocks above the weed mat around the Trellis area.
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Picked up the spider plants and transfered them to a bag of potting mix laid on the ground (rocks) as a makeshift nursery in the Utility area, left there for 4 - 6 weeks the plants recovered and thrived.
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Re-potted 6 plants into 4" grow pots and placed them in front of the 2 climbers and Peace Lillies below the trellis.  Scraped back the stones to the weed mat, placed the pots and scraped stones back around the small pots.
The arching leaves will cover and disquise the black pots in time.
Will need more plants to totally fill in area.
 Lots of great info on this site including the tips below:
https://plantcaretoday.com/spider-plant-care.html



Although you can find almost 200 species of Chlorophytum the most popular is the well known spider plant 'Chlorophytum comosum'
The NASA Clean Air study has deemed Chlorophytum as one of the best plants for cleaning indoor air.  The benefits of having indoor plants include an increase in negative ion, owygen and humidity levels, along with reduction of negative elements, including mould spores.
Your Chlorophytum comosum will be happy almost anywhere you choose to place it.  No plants really do well without light altogether, but the rugged spider plant is flexible and accommodating to just about any level of artificial or natural light.
These plants dont require lots of water, usually allow to dry out a little (top 1") before watering.
Spiders do not require lots of much fertiliser.  However they respond well to an application of liquid plant food mixed to half strength every few weeks during the spring and summer.  Another option is to apply Osmocote at beginning of Spring and again at beginning of Summer.

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