Last summer I put her outside for less than a day in maybe 70° weather to deep clean my plant area and she died. I can't remember all the specifics but the plant continued to grow.
– Gets indirect, natural sunlight daily
– bottom watering
– soil is the cheapest bag for houseplants from Home Depot
by _gooseknees
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That’s a dracenea ( corn plant) and likes bright indirect light & needs drainage holes in the pot.
That is not a spider plant (chlorophytum comosum) but a dracena (fragrans I think). As far as I know these love bright indirect sun but will get burnt if they get direct sun (what happened to you probably) and not a lot of water, you should wait until the top part of the soil is dry like with many other plants.
You should also consider if your bright indirect sun is enough for this one, depends on where you live. Soil should be a bit better, does it get soggy once watered? If so, you could add perlite.
This is a Dracaena, it requires indirect light, it is chlorine sensitive (so don’t use water directly from the tap if your municipality treats your water with chlorine, but rather let it sit overnight before using), and it should have higher humidity as it is prone to tip and margin burn if it gets too low humidity.
You also have to make sure there’s drainage in the soil, as it does not like to stay wet.
What probably happened last summer is that it went into shock due to not being hardened off when you put it outside to clean it. You need to keep a *very* close eye on a plant when you first move it outside for any length of time as the leaves will start dropping and showing signs of distress, which can happen in very little time (less than a half an hour) just by the change in environment. To properly harden off a plant, you bring it out every day until the leaves just start showing signs of distress (the margin around the leaves will start getting soft and drooping) and you bring it inside for the rest of the day. You do this every day for about a week or two until it can stay outside all day, bring it in for a final night, then it should be good to keep outside indefinitely until the end of season.