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This is all about my favorite indoor plant - the Spider Plant - ("Ampellilja" in Swedish). I have cultivated and collected these pretty plants for many years. I never kill my Spider Plants when they grow old, as you are recommended in books, instead I just keep on caring for them and they keep on growing and getting bigger and bigger. When they get really big and old, after many years, they look different when you look close. They have a center that is lying down on top of the soil in the pot, from which the leaves grow upwards in the normal fashion, and new roots will protrude and grow downwards.

On the photo to the right you can see the difference in size between my smallest and largest varieties. To the right is the all green variety, my oldest variety of Spider Plant. In the middle is my next oldest, the one with white stripes in the middle of the leaves. To the left is my fourth variety, the smallest one with white stripes in the middle of the leaves.
When this photo was taken I did not have the Laxum variety, which is even smaller. I only have spider plants, if I have any other plants I usually give them away after a while... At the moment I have a dandelion plant, an outdoor weed, in my kitchen window. I'm trying to see if I can grow them as food for my pets but it does not thrive at all...

Goals

My goal with these spider plants is threefold:

1. I want as many different varieties of spider plants as possible
2. I want them to grow as big as possible
3. I want to know as much as possible about them