i noticed my spider plant has browning of the leaves.. Way inside the pot also. Have had high humidity lately, it's in part shade/part sun most of the time. What's this an indication of and will this lead to the entire plant being like this? Want to help it before it gets worse. Please help.
Looks to me it is root bound and probably has no soil to feed on. Needs to be repotted.
Don't water it too much either. Spider plants make water-saving nodes in the soil.
Like garlic cloves. Spiders can go a couple weeks with no watering.
Any of the yellowing and black leaves from the bottom---just pull them off.
Yes--I think a potting up in a bigger container will help.
You may be surprised to see nothing but these "cloves" when you pull the plant up.
You CAN trim some of them off--kind of root-prune it. It will sulk for a while after that--
but then recover and grow more vigorously.
Also--Spiders are Dracenas. They do not like salts in the water you use to water them.
If your water is treated with Chlorine (outs is heavily treated--I can smell it), fill a gallon
jug with the water and let it air out for a couple of days. Then use it.
Rain water would be ideal--but how do you get that?
Good luck! Glad to help you if needed. I have many Spiders.... Gita
I agree with the above, except the trope that allowing water to stand will dissipate chlorine; first, it doesn't, second, most municipal water is treated with chloramines which are much more persistent, and third, spider plants are not particularly sensitive to chlorine, but are to FLourine salts.
If you want to keep it in the same pot, cut it up with a big knife and repot the piece you want.
Ummm, that area the chloramines may not be a problem. Only some areas treat with floramines, and chlorine does dissipate with aeration- water salinity could be high near Lake Charley...tho not sure of that one. It is rootbound badly. As much rain as the area gets it needs to be a well draining soil after you split the nodes up and repot.
To add; chloramines will not dissipate, and there are many plants that chloramine will kill eventually or sooner...
This message was edited Nov 21, 2015 6:57 PM
Thank you for all the help and advice I will definitely be repotting and my water is treated.
I visited someone's property recently and they had spider plants in pots on the ground which had baby spiders that "crawled" onto the ground. They are creating a nice ground cover. This is a filtered sunlight area with no special garden soil in suburban San Diego area. Does anyone have suggestions for ideal outdoor soil type to use, watering requirements and lighting preference? Also, in an older thread, there was discussion on the issue of undesirable additives in community-provided water systems (for spider plants). We have remedied that by installing rain-catchment storage barrels; it is Amazing how much water can be captured off a modest-sized house roof with a decent rain. I would not drink this water though.
Interesting ground cover idea
