Plants
Mini spider plant
Chlorophytum comosum 'Bonnie' (young)
BeginnerFine in a closed jar
Arching striped leaves. Shrugs off most mistakes.
What the simulation uses
- Light
- 1,500 to 15,000 lux
- The brightness it grows well in.
- Humidity
- 40 to 90 % RH
- Air moisture it is happy in; below the lower end it dries out.
- Temperature
- 13 to 27 °C
- Comfortable range; outside it growth slows.
- Dies at
- below 2 or above 33 °C
- Days beyond these temperatures kill it.
- Soil pH
- 6 to 7.2 pH
- Soil acidity it prefers.
- Grows up
- 1 cm/month
- How fast it gains height in good conditions.
- Spreads
- 1 cm/month
- How fast its edge creeps outwards.
- Copes with wet
- fair
- How well it stands soggy soil; poor means rot comes quickly.
- Copes with still air
- excellent
- Sealed jars have still air; poor means grey mould finds it.
- Copes with shade
- good
- How well it holds on in dim light.
- Copes with drying
- good
- How well it survives the jar drying out.
- Water use
- 0.06 ml/cm²/day
- Water drawn up from its roots per cm² of leaves in room air; a sealed jar cuts this to a fraction and returns it down the glass.
- Leaf drop
- 2 %/month
- Share of its leaves it sheds each month as litter for the cleanup crew.
- Soft leaves
- no
- Soft new growth that hungry isopods will nibble.
- Full size
- 17.5 cm tall, 25 cm wide
- Its size when grown, before the lid stops it.
Care
- Day length
- 10 to 14 h
- Substrate
- Moist
What kills it
- waterlogged roots
Description
Growers report it coping even in a bowl with mould in it. A small spider plant is easy to please. It tolerates a wide range of light and humidity, so it suits a first jar.
Also called spider plant, airplane plant.
Estimated, where sources were thin: rates and limits are horticultural estimates, not measured.