How to Grow Cleome Spider Plant from Seed Growing Cut Flower Garden Annuals

Nature never ceases to amaze. These plants are so very similar to Cannabis. The tops(flowers) also get a very strong Cannabis like smell. They grow quite tall too. I was so confused when I first encountered this plant. Go Cleome’s! 🌱💚

It would be helpful if you'd list some of the other flowers growing in your videos. This combination is really pretty - curious which color zinnia, etc. (I'm not good at deciding whether it's pink, or lilac, or whatever). Thanks! It's nice to see how your channel has grown : )

Thank you for the info .......

Once established will they come up year after year on their own?

I grew cleome for years and never noticed then being a sticky or having thorns. I’ll definitely do a closer inspection this year! Lol I saw your comment that you grow Malabar spinach vines. I had never heard of them. Very interesting and I think I’ll try some myself.

Thank you!

I have grown Cleome a couple of years and they were so easy. They love the heat and don't need any staking. So pretty. I never had any trouble with them having a bad smell. I highly recommend them.

Does anyone ever get the Police called on them in the early growth period? ...I cannot imagine why not! :)

They are spectactular looking and the deer absolutely hate them.

This video was exactly what I was looking for! I am growing cleome for the first time this year, but I bought the plants for $5 each. The amount I spend on annuals every year is getting outrageous, but I haven’t wanted to invest in grow lights. I subscribed to your channel as soon as I watched the video, and I plan on watching your “winter sowing cleome” later this evening.Thanks so much!

Does it re seed as a perennial?

Do you have a favorite variety of cleome?
Im searching for a very tall variety that has huge flowerheads

Thank you

Excellent video. Got some from grandma this year. Such beautiful flowers. 5 ft tall and thorns are developing. New sub.

Dear fellow garden gal
I LOVE Cleome!! Thank you for making this info available . Cleome is my favorite annual

I see what you mean about the leaves. LOL. I did a double take on those

I started mine just this month lol. Just outside in a pot but I have had pretty good germination. They are all about 2 inches tall now and I’ll be transplanting shortly as they do have their first real leaves now. I’m excited to see these grow.

Bkit po till now mag 1month na pa tumutubo ang cleome seeds na binili ko sa inyo?

I’m also in Kentucky…do you think it’s worth growing from seed vs. nursery? Do they grow quickly?

do you have any seeds you would like to sell?

just subbed ya. Will deer eat these flowers?

Your videos are SUCH a great reference. I'm in Atlanta so our climate isn't identical (close enough) but hearing what flowers are easy/hard to grow is 5/5 useful

I had them self seed for years, then disappeared, maybe a really late frost killed them. Starting over this year, I hope they will self sow next year and after. There are new colors and heights being introduced all the time.

A friend of mine swears they keep the deer away from her garden

I was given this plant last year. It smells like Marijuana.

It goes well with my early spring time bulb of Crown Imperial which smells like skunk.

I tend to smell up my neighbourhood.

Beautiful! I have the white ones! After flowering, do I pull up the stalk? I collected seeds today!

Im trying to grow it in pots but i dont know how much space a single plant actually needs. Also found seedlings quite "sensitive". Diffucult to grow inside

Not a fan of the smell either

I have 2 that my mother bought but never planted this year and they are about dead looking can they be saved ?

So I ordered a package of Rocky Mountain bee plant and found out it kind of likes poor crappy soil etc so I gave them to my mom. I was looking at pictures and thought how familiar they looked and then I saw the name Spider plant…. 😑 what a moment these were flowers my mother grew all the time growing up. The name was the only thing that threw me off.

I love them! I even like the aroma. It's a cross between skunk and cardamom. And they do seem to have some kind of pickers, too. Definitely a flower for only the truest of aficionados!

I wanted to grow these along my front fence but I think the neighbourhood kids will be pulling them out for all the wrong reasons

I love Cleome and share seeds with all of my neighbors.

Which growing zone are you in?
We just moved to Zone 4b and found the front planter bed filled with beautiful, blooming Cleomes. I collected about a cup of seed from the pods in about 20 minutes! I'd prefer to sow them after our last frost but how best to store them until then?
I understand that these flowers reseed well.
thanks!

It's now the end of October in North Carolina (Zone 4), and my beautiful cleomes are near the end of their life. Do I just pull them up by the roots? That seems brutal.

I heard they were aggressive reseeders! What was your experience with that? What cultivar or variety did you plant? Beautiful

I grow evening primrose as a trap crop for japanese beetles. This is something I started by happenstance when a wild primrose chanced into my garden. I left it be and by the end of the season the beetles would flock to it, ignoring my okra and much of anything else they'd normally like to eat. Good luck in the garden, you rock!

Some of the seeds that I saved from last years purple cleome are taupe, some are gray, most of them are black. What does the non black seeds indicate immature seeds? Or different color flowers?

Well produced video…you spent the time informing the viewer w no wasted intro, etc…I just subscribed… I want to see what you’ve done with “cold tunnels(?)”

Feel in love with this plant jus for the fact it looks like pot. Lol I was in highschool when I was introduced to it. Neat plant

What happens if you smoke the leaves

ONE OF MY FAVS!

I've recently grown this cultivar thinking it was something else. I remember this being in my MILs garden so having it our garden is a nice reminder of her since she's passed ❤️.

Having planted 12 and only getting one it is indeed hard to germinate. The one that did pop was particularly finicky and didn't really respond to anything in my indoor CFL light set up for starting plants come April indoors. I tried domes, no domes, closer/further from light and with little to no hope I brought it out to my mini green house I recently built. It was 4-5 weeks old and very pale looking.... Within 48hrs it popped into life looking green and healthier.... Nothing different other than first week of May weather in 6b zone. It continued to improve and up pot etc accordingly and I have my first one in my front garden. With these tips in positive I'll be better able to germinate and fill my own gardens with memories. Thank you for the informative video.

These flowers are always super easy to grow just throw the seeds down don't even really have to mess with them and they'll pop up I even come back the next year and I live in Northeast Ohio they make hundreds of little teeny tiny seeds

The cleome seeds are supposedly used in homeopathic meds for cancers and other illnesses.

I saw the giant hawk moth at night working the plants. My plants died off for over four years. We were building a new deck and scuffed the soil up and plants popped up after four years.

Hello! You most likely wont see this from how old this video is but, OMGGG I wanna grow these!!
I like to grow flowers from seed, to flower, to seed! I remember this flower so much and, So badl wanna grow it haha. I do have a question! Do they grow theyir flowers in the first eyar?? What I mean is, they sprout, grow leaves and upwards and everything, and then their flowers??
I know some plants like to grow their roots out more to store food, and then the next years they start making flowers. So is Cleome a flower that grows flowers in the first year??

I WS’d mine and they did great.

I live in sunny hot St Kitts in the Caribbean. Do you think I can plant the seeds straight into the ground. We don't get cold, frost weather here.

Beauty full flower...cleome