The reason I corrected you was totally because I can see your young enthusiasm...and I knew that you would take pride in having the proper Latin names for your plants.

I think that you should consider us as your mentors.

For you, this translates into allowing the soil to dry down until you can feel no moisture in it. Then, is when you water ..... and water thoroughly - so the entire soil mass is saturated and water drains freely from the drain hole. If you can't water in this manner w/o risking root rot, it's a surety that your soil is a problem and should be looked at.

If you've fertilized recently, tell us what you used, how often, and how much & we'll make a guess at whether or not a high level of solubles (salts) in the soil might be a problem. Spider plants are very vigorous and quite easy to grow if you follow a few tips. Here are a few:

General care:

A) Most important is to use a soil that drains very freely. This allows you to water copiously, flushing the accumulating salts from the soil each time you water.

B) Fertilize frequently when the plant is growing well, but at low doses - perhaps 1/4 the recommended strength. This, in combination with the favorable watering habit described above, will keep soluble salts levels low, and keep levels from rising due to the accumulative effect we always see when we are forced to water in sips when plants are in water-retentive soils.

C) When watering, using rainwater, snow melt, water from your dehumidifiers, or distilled water, also eliminates the issue of soluble salts in your tap water and will go a long way toward eliminating or minimizing leaf burn.

D) If you make your own soils and use perlite, be sure the perlite is rinsed well, which removes most of the fluorides associated with it's use.

E) Allowing irrigation water to rest overnight doesn't do anything in the way of helping reduce the amount of fluoride (the compounds are not volatile), and it only helps with chlorine in certain few cases, depending on what method of chlorination was used to treat your tap water.

Best luck!

Al

These plants are captive prisoners in their tiny containers, often with a poor quality potting medium. They really solely on their caretakers (us) to provide them with the elements that they MUST have in order to function. Depriving container grown plants of any kind of nutrition during the year will set them up for failure. That includes your spider plants.

What kind of plant food do you have?

Do you mean that you are interested in a list of houseplants for low light conditions inside the house? How about telling us more about the light situation...what direction do the windows face, etc.

In other words, we should water each plant when it needs it, no more and no less. That may mean once a day for a specific plant and once a month for another.

I don't know that this plant can recover. I'm sorry but it looks 99% dead. Is there a baby hanging off to the right? Maybe it can be saved.

These plants look good although the spider looks a little droopy, possibly from too much water/poor drainage. When you water these plants, does the water run out right away or pool up on the surface before it drains out?