I have a common variegated spider plant with many children and planted one of its spiderettes after the baby had been accidentally cut from the plant. I potted it almost a year ago and it lives on.
The spiderette is growing, but I wouldn't say thriving, as a cluster of small, quite attractive, broad-leafed rosettes and has so far declined to produce any of the usual long, arching leaves. It gets perhaps an hour or so of morning sun in an east-facing window box, regular water, and very dilute fertilization once a month or so.
Is this rosette stage part of its development? (I can't find any mention of rosettes on chlorophytum sites.) And how do I get it to act normally? Or have I produced some mutant?