Nice thing about baby plants is you don't have to change their diapers. Some other plants that form babies on runners ( actually called "stolens") like the spider or airplane plant are; Mother-In-Law's Tongue (Sanservieria trifasciata), the trailing violets like Flame Violet (Episcia cupreata), many of the ferns, some cactus, most grasses ( which don't make especially exciting house plants but bamboo is a grass and there are dwarf or mini varieties), the strawberry begonia, and my favorite, the actual strawberry. You can grow strawberries just like you do the spider plant in a hanging pot with the babies hanging out and down, it does need more sun than a real house plant, try them outdoors. A similar way of producing baby plants is known as offshooting, there is no runner, the new plants grow directly off the mother. Good ol' Hen and Chicks (Echeveria elegans ) does that . The hen is 2 to 12 inches in diameter and the chicks form around it and cluster close and under it just like chicks. The chicks can be easily separated and replanted to grow into new hens with chicks of their own. Some other succulents do the same. The Chandelier Plant, Maternity Plant, and other Bryophyllum plants grow babies along the edges of their leaves which fall off and take root, or you can pick them off yourself. Some other plants that, with a little help from you, reproduce from the leaf are Begonias, African Violets,English Ivy and some other ivies, Pothos ( or Devils Ivy, not a true ivy), and many of the succulents. With the begonia you just take a healthy not too old leaf and lay it flat on some soil. Most people lay it right side up, try both ways, you might need to pin it down. roots will form along the edge of the leaf and new plants grow. With the others you need some stem. With the violet and succulents choose a healthy leaf, make a clean cut with a sharp blade, like a razor and gently push it into some soil, there are special rooting soils and some people use clean sand. You can also buy rooting hormones a fine powder, dip the stem into water then into the powder and then plant. With the ivies and pothos cut a stem with a few leaves and "aerial roots," cut off some leaves at the bottom and plant like the single leaves or place in a container of water. Violets are often put in water too. I remember my grandmothers window were filled with little Welches Grape Jelly glasses with wax paper covers held on by rubber bands and a Violet leaf stuck through a slit in the paper. There could have been an elephant outside and she never would have seen it through all the cartoon characters and roots. Once you get some roots going transfer to soil. Some plants, especially ones that crow in clumps like monkey grass can be reproduced by division, just cut right through the entire plant root ball and all and replant. Plants that grow from bulbs like tulips, daffodils etc. can be dug up every year or so and there will be new bulbs sprouting off the original one. All these methods are, biologically speaking, Asexual Reproduction, Botanically speaking Vegetative Reproduction because no mixing of genetic material, and from Vegetative material instead of a seed. In other words they are ooooooooooweeeeoooooooooow, clones. Well it's all natural and been going on for a gazillion years so it's not all that scary, but if you wanta play mad scientist, first get yourself a lovely assistant or a handsome one depending on your inclinations or inhibitions, and try something called "air layering." This works best on plants with a woodier stem. Use a clean, even disinfected sharp blade, a razor blade or scapel if you wanta be even more scientific, lay the blade at a shallow angle to the stem and make a cut a couple of inches long along the stem almost to the center. Not a slit, a cut that goes across the stem so you have a kind of flap arrangement. Dust the insides of the cut with that rooting hormone, put a toothpick crosswise into the cut to hold it open. Trim the extending ends, you might even need to splint the stem. Get a handful of Sphagnum moss and soak it under water till it's sopping. ( Don't use peat moss, Peat flunked Science and is useless in these attempts to conquer the world.) Give the moss a real good squeeze to get rid of the water you just spent time to get all soaked in and wrap it around the cut an inch or so beyond the cut in each direction, wrap that an inch or so past the moss with kitchen plastic wrap with twisties at each end. Wait until you see roots growing in the moss, a few weeks to months in some cases, cut the stem off on the plant side and plant your clone while laughing evilly. (05-28-05.12:46,nmj) Dreamer, Mother-in-Law's tongue is sorta 'spikey,' the leaves are sword shaped with a sharp point. As if that wasn't enough the plant is poisonous, small doses cause temporary paralyses of the vocal chords, make your own decision about the name. It is also called Snake Plant, some use Snake Plant for the taller, up to 4 feet, Sansevieria trifasciata and Mother-in-Law's Tongus for the shorter S. hahnii . Other folks make no distinction, or the exact opposite. Here's a pic, http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Agavaceae/Sansevieria_trifasciata.html I bet you recognize it. Don't panic about the poison, many house plants are poison to one extent or another, most adults couldn't ingest enough of them to do severe or permanent damage, but you want to be careful with small children and pets, especially cats. Pothos or Devils Ivy, which I mentioned can cause diarrhea and some people get a skin rash from it. Here's a pic, I bet you recognize it too. http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Araceae/Epipremnum_aureum.html and http://www.pharmacy.arizona.edu/centers/apdic/plants/pothos_b.html A few other poisonous plants you may have around the place are; Dumbcane or Numb Tongue (Dieffenbachia)-Severe buring and swelling of the mucous membrances of the mouth and throat, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and loss of voice. Philodendron- just about the same as Dumbcane potato- green parts can cause Nausea, vomiting, salivation, drowsiness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, weakness, respiratory depression; may be fatal. And check this out, Aloe vera - nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and heart palpitations. Dermatitis has been reported (Weird, aloe is used to treat that.) BTW, Aloe also be reproduces by offsets. Here's two lists of poisonous plants in case your cloning experiments go horribly awry and you need to get rid of that lab assistant, ( Be sure and shake your head ruefully and mutter," Horrible, inspector, just horrible, an accidental overdose of mashed potatoes.") http://www.pharmacy.arizona.edu/centers/apdic/plants/poison.html http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/poison.htm

Some other plants that have babies, or "pups" as we call them, are argave, they can have many pups, usually growing at the back of the main trunk, and are easy to pull away and just plant in soil or potting mix, no special conditions to try and get growth, they are extremely easy to seperate and get re growth again.. ( cactus family) another one that has babies, are the bromeliad family, well in true effect, the parent dies after flowering , and many new baby shoots spring up, again you can easily take these away from the original rooting system, and re plant elswhere. As well, the yucca will sprout tips from the original trunk, especially after de trunking the spikes from the main plant, you can cut these tips from the main plant and just simply plant directly into soil or potting mix, a very high success rate of growth for these, as well, you can take the tip off the mother yucca plant, and plant into soil, which will give you a 2nd new baby plant that will start growing.