Yingg
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Hi, I bought a spider plant from Lowe's. Can I repost it and wait a while before putting it in my tortoise enclosure just in case there were pesticides? or even start a new one from a clipping?
repotted spider plant ?
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You'll need to wait about three months. Yes, you can start a new plant from a spiderling.
Yes, growing new from the baby spiders is a good thing.
To repot, get as much dirt off the roots as possible and the WASH away the rest. Resoil with some dirt you absolutely know isn't contaminated, and then let it grow somewhere not in your tortoise's enclosure. If it was repotted today - don't think about putting it into your enclosure until sometime after 4th of July or later.
Since tortoises like to eat them, it might be good to keep the original growing off-shoots and use the potted spiderlings as the plants that you cycle in and out as they get chewed up.
To repot, get as much dirt off the roots as possible and the WASH away the rest. Resoil with some dirt you absolutely know isn't contaminated, and then let it grow somewhere not in your tortoise's enclosure. If it was repotted today - don't think about putting it into your enclosure until sometime after 4th of July or later.
Since tortoises like to eat them, it might be good to keep the original growing off-shoots and use the potted spiderlings as the plants that you cycle in and out as they get chewed up.
Yingg
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i did exactly what you said. i am growing it safely indoors right now! in organic soil with nothing added. hopefully. it's safe for human food growing at least.
I'm working on the spiderlings, but to be honest, no matter how many youtube guides i watch, every plant i grow dies somehow. I must have whatever the opposite of a green thumb is.
