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| I have some questions about my spider plant(white with green stripes)
I have one and I care about it so much
our weather is too hot so I keep it indoor
I am doing that because there are yellow leaves starting to appear even I cut them , a new yellow leaves appear again Is my care way right or there is a wrong ?
somebodies told me that there is nitrogen deficiency
others suggest to put my plant in more light area
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| It's difficult to help because 'yellow leaves' can be symptomatic of a number of issues, and there isn't really enough in your post to zero in on. It's difficult to give unvariegated spider plants too much light or heat. We don't know what you're fertilizing with or have any idea about how you're going about it. Yellow leaves can be from over-watering, nutritional deficiencies/toxicities, a high level of salts in the soil, cultural conditions that cause nutritional deficiencies, tight roots, soil compaction ..... Often, the best way to approach a problem is to cure it before it starts, IOW - learn to give the plant the cultural conditions it needs. This starts with your soil, which is the foundation of EVERY conventional container planting. If you start with a poor foundation, it's very difficult to build on it, and you'll be fighting it for the life of the planting. I'm going to suggest a couple of threads for you to read. I think you will find them very helpful. If you have ANY questions, don't hesitate to ask. Some spider plant tips, copy/pasted from, something I commonly leave on SP threads: Of course, you cannot correct the already burned tips (they won't 'heal'), but you can take steps to keep it from happening: 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 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 thoroughly, which removes most of the fluorides associated with it's use. E) Allowing 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 uncommon cases, depending on what method of chlorination was used to treat your tap water. Al
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- Posted by teengardener1888 none (My Page) on Sun, Jun 24, 12 at 8:11
| It may need to be fertilized |
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| Teeng If spider plant has yellow leaves it doesn't need to be fertilized. Spiders are very finicky, fertilizer may burn more leaves. |
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