I got this curly spider plant that is not only going straight (very homophobic of it) but is also slowly dying. I swear every week about 2-3 leaves turn yellow then brown. I have clipped off all the other dead leaves but this guy keeps getting smaller and smaller. I water about once a week or when I notice the soil is dry, it’s still in the pot I bought it in. It’s not in direct sunlight – and I put it in my bathroom for humidity (and lowkey poop particles bc I guess that’s a thing??)
I use to have it in my room and that’s when it grew the little baby but it’s summer now and extremely hot and sunny in my room.
by Judgebootyjooty
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Not nearly enough light. Only water when the pot is completely dry.
I don’t think you can keep any plant healthy long term without a grow light in that room.
Spider plants can grow in full sun. It’s starved for light.
I agree with the others here. Spider plants need lots of light. Get it a cheap plant light from Amazon or a shop of your preference and you should be fine keeping it where it is.
Alternatively switch this plant with one that’s in a window that can live with less light, e.g. a fern ☘️
Good luck!
if you can move it to a window that would probably help it alot, a window that gets a lot of sun light
You can get a stand or attach a perch to the window for it to sit on
More light. If you wanna keep it in the bathroom, you’re gonna have to give it a grow light.
I have a grow light on my spiders that I keep in my bathroom and they give me flowers.
I wonder, too, about water. I get browning/yellow tip leaves with tap water. I don’t have that problem with distilled or now rain water (we installed a rain barrel for plant water). Agree it would probably like more light. Good luck! 😉
I can put it back in my room I have two windows in there but that’s where it started dying and I was told it was too much direct sunlight(??)
This is my first plant so I genuinely do not know what to do.
Less light means less watering and carefully checking before each watering. Completely dry but not hydrophobic. Interior landscaping is always less water.
Plants can survive anywhere there is a light. Artificial included because of lumens. Download an app to see a rough estimate on how much light is coming in on the plant’s location
I grow plants in offices and dark hallways, rotations come semi-annually to annually because eventually it’ll need to recover from not having light
Only downside of not having light is it will grow slowly, it won’t produce as many flowers and will dry out much slower than plants with more light
The curly leaves is tipping, hard. Fix the water part of the water:light ratio
More light, less water (water only when almost completely dry then saturate)
You need 2 of these. Switch window/toilet plant monthly.
It would much rather be in your room, it’s currently getting zero light. Just slowly move it closer to your sunny window.
It needs more light. You can get single plant clip-on plant lights. Most of them come with a timer as well. Spider plants can get quite root bound so the space it’s got looks good. It will easily grow into more pot space but it is easier to overwater that way as well. On the contrary, if you find it’s dry all the time you could trim those roots off showing at the bottom or go a size up on the pot. As long as you’re not over or underwatering I would say a plant light would make it look more vibrant! I started my spider plant from a plantlet three years ago. It goes in the greenhouse in the winter but in the summer it’s on the screen porch in very bright light all day and gets direct sun through the screen for probably about 4 hours a day. But then I keep one in my fish aquarium in a basket with no dirt and just the roots hanging in the water and it gets medium artificial light. It stays alive and healthy but is not anywhere near as robust and does not grow as fast.
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I’ve heard the fluorine in tap water can cause the tips to turn brown but this looks like more than just the tips. Just ask it what’s wrong