…or What’s growing in my pot?
I have a pot with a spider plant growing in the middle.
Something else is growing off to the side though. It doesn’t look like a spider plant and is growing much faster. Can someone tell me what it is?
The spider plant is the much smaller one.
Looks like grass; that is to say a member of the family graminae, rather than anything else described by the term ‘grass’. Do you have a pet bird?
A big grass, like sorghum or Milo. Birdseed is a likely source.
Hmmm. hoping it was more exciting than grass.
No bird.
There’s a dog in the house. I’m going to have to ask her what company she’s keeping.
Wait until it gets 6 feet tall and puts out weird seed pods before deciding whether it’s exciting. I’m a little up on grasses at the moment because my corn is sprouting, but some of them really are interesting to watch.
I guess the next question is, will it kill my spider plant?
It takes a gallon of roundup and a blowtorch to kill a spider plant. Your grass will probably live for 6 months tops.
Cool. Thanks **Squink ** and Mangetout.
Don’t bet on it. There are plenty of perennial grasses and it’s quite impossible to tell which is which at that stage of growth. If, for example, that’s Sorghum halapense rather than Sorghum vulgare then it could stick around for decades.