Wow, what a year this was and now that it is coming to an end, I thought I would try and catch up with some of the posts, but that is impossible, so I am going to start this post and hopefully someone can answer my questions. I am a stickler on proper Identification of plants because when I sell a plant, I do not want to misrepresent my plants or my word/information. Having said that, my year has been one of changing from one collection to another. I began collecting spider plants early in my life, but only this year did I realize there were so many and they were so very interesting to research.
I now have the following:
Chlorophytum Comosum: This is the species from which most of the varieties originate. It has all green arched leaves that are very long.
All but a few of my spiders are C. Comosum. I have been fortunate enough to acquire the following: C. Bonnie, C. Variegatum, C. Streaker, C.White Lightning, C. Golden Glow (aka Hawaiian), C. Milky Way, C. Ocean, C. Vitattum, C. Atlantic, and C. Pacific.
Some of these are still in the 3" pots and are not yet mature, but the mature stock plants I do have are producing beautiful babies.

I would love to find and purchase C. Macrophpyllum and C. Mandaianum .

My question today is about the Hawaiian or Golden Glow spider. I have about four of these and only one of them throw off the variegated babies. I am wondering what variety the other so called Hawaiian plants I have really are, or, does this particular spider plant throw off both variegated and almost solid green plantlets?

Here are the babies of the one Hawaiian stock I have. I am told this is the REAL Hawaiian, but I do not know for sure. The plantlets turn green as they mature.


Here are babies on another Hawaiian


You can see the difference in the color of the plantlets. Both of these plants are about the same age but I got them from different sources and both are marked Hawaiian.
Your comments will be appreciated.

Hoping I can find time to check in more often. I miss chatting, but I have been very busy trying to get through the holidays here on the Christmas Tree Farm. We finally are celebrating part of the family Christmas tonight. We don't complain because we make so many families happy. Have a joyous and safe New Year.

With any fluke of nature in the plant world your going to see that, reverts back to the all green- wild type. i wouldn't worry so much on the purity of the offspring but if you must select only the varigated ones for continuing varigated spider plants


It takes plabt breeders awhile to make new varities and maybe unintentaionally thats what your doing.

Do you know anyone who can shed some light on the Hawaiian Spider for me? I am now just very curious. The fact it is also called the Golden Glow, I would love to know where that came from. I can't seem to find an answer. Of course I have not exhausted all my contacts, but I wanted to try here first.

No I dont... but its normal for varigated ones to go back to green esspically if light levels are lower then what they should be.

JB--

Won't be able to help you--but I Googled "Spider Plant" and all these images came up.
There was one labeled as "Hawaiian Spider Plant". Really dark green--no visible striping.
Of course--anyone can post any picture and call it whatever they want....

For whatever it is worth--here is the link--IF it works. Gita

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A3UXX0Q/

Then--there was this one--called the "Ocean Spider Plant".

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A3UXX0Q/

OK>.....................something is wrong--it is showing the same one as before....

Lets try this again---Ocean Spider Plant. This one looks nothing like the one i tried
to post in the above send.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00482TD04/

This is just what comes up under "IMAGES" when i simply Googled for Spider plants.

If you pause on any picture--it will enlarge ,,The pause on it again--and it will
come up "isolated" and maybe that will give you a name.

Images of Spider Plants:

http://search.comcast.net/?cat...

Here is a "White Spider"....

gitagal said:JB--

Won't be able to help you--but I Googled "Spider Plant" and all these images came up.
There was one labeled as "Hawaiian Spider Plant". Really dark green--no visible striping.
Of course--anyone can post any picture and call it whatever they want....

For whatever it is worth--here is the link--IF it works. Gita

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A3UXX0Q/

That is not a Hawaiian Spider as most of us know it and you need to consider the source ....Hirts is horrible when it comes to their spider identification. They sent me the wrong spider plant three times. They have no clue and care less. I called, complained and finally they sent me the money back. I will not buy a spider from them again, ever.

gitagal said:Here is a "White Spider"....

http://davesgarden.com/guides/...

That is a beauty, I would love to know more about that. I wrote to the owner to see what the result of his giving it to the others for research ...I hope he answers me before my membership is up in March. Would love to know if they got more whites or if it reverted back to the original plant. Or, did they name it....

I am still trying to find the information about the Hawaiian plantlets. I am sure there are many mislabeled and that is so sad. Thanks for your help.

What is your trick for growing healthy spider plants? The tips of mine always get brown.

Brown tips mean two things, one is the fact that you are not watering it enough. The other is that most spiders will show brown tips if watered with "tap" water.

If you are on Facebook you may want to our group where we post different species and other information that may help you. https://www.facebook.com/group... This is just a spider group. Thank you for your interest in these wonderful plants.

I would like to bring this thread back to life. I am trying to replace my collection I lost to Scale and need some of the information in this thread to do that. I hope all you Spider lovers join me in enjoying and trying to find the different varieties that are out there and available.
I find that if you do not know your spiders and buy them from just anyone, you do not get what you think you bought. Before you buy a spider, it is a good idea to be sure you are getting the one you thought you bought. I found over the years some of the vendors I thought knew their plants send you something other than what you order. It is so frustrating because you can not send them back for the one you ordered because they do not really have what you thought you were buying. Am I confusing you with this statement?
Believe it or not, this just happened to me again for the second time. I bought by name only, not seeing the plant, just taking the word of the seller. When I got the plant I was not feeling well and just told my caregiver to put it with the plants I keep in quarantine for now. When she brought it in weeks later, I could not remember what I bought but when I finally realized it. I found it was not what it should be....unless it is a new variety, which I am now trying to identify. That is why I just love working with plants. Always something to keep your mind busy as your body seems to wear out.
At 90 years old that is for darn sure.