I bought this spider plant from a supermarket and it is not well so I took it out of the pot to look at the roots. They are squishy and a bit deflated looking but still white, is this root rot or is this underwatering? They don't smell but are clearly unhealthy. The pot it came in is much larger than the roots, shown in the last photo, which could again point to root rot
A lot of the leaves had browned and gone crispy, totally shrivelled, so I removed them.
I've not had this plant for super long but it's been hanging in a bright north-eastish window that gets direct sun in the morning for and hour or two, and then indirect for the rest of the day. I water it when it is dry until water comes out the bottom, leave it for a half hour-an hour or so to soak up any extra it might want and then get rid of the excess.
I have other spider plants that get the same watering, though a little further away from the same window and they are thriving and growing happily so any advice about what to do with this fella would be great.
by cerebral-fungi20
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Nope. Spider plants are incredibly resilient. Just depot the pieces with green leaves. Get rid of any dried crispy bits and give a good watering.
Plant it and water it. It will be fine.
Those roots don’t look too bad. Repot and baby her for a few and I think it will be ok
>Is my spider plant cooked
It doesn’t look like you’ve put it in the oven or that it’s sunburnt.
If it’s warm enough where you are, temp needs to be above 60 f , put it outside in the sun and it will absolutely recover in a week. If the temp is not staying that warm bring it back inside at night.
No you didn’t bake it long enough
this may be the worst one I’ve seen, but that spiderplant is still clinging to life which means you can have him back to thriving in a few months with some TLC.