Ever had a houseplant on its last legs and wanted to bring it back to EPIC health? Here’s how I do it.
I got this spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) from a friend at a plant swap. It was looking pretty terrible – lanky, diseased, and many broken or browning leaves. It was also tossed into a large pot from a small pot, with bare roots exposed – not good!
I took it through a standard process:
1. Diagnose the root system. Is there rot, root circling, or any other damage? If so, fix this first. Prune the roots aggressively, cutting away rot and tease them apart so they don’t continue their poor growth pattern in the new pot.
2. Diagnose the leaves. Are the leaves diseased, damaged, bent, cracked, or simply looking a bit out of place? Be aggressive with your pruning, cutting as close as possible to the base of the leaves with sterilized pruning snips.
3. Repot. Use fresh, high-quality indoor potting mix and size the pot up about 1″ or so to account for rapid growth now that youre plant is nice and healthy. Pot up, water in, then place in optimal conditions for a few weeks and monitor progress.
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Have you ever rescued a plant from the brink of DEATH? Lemme know 🙂
I happy i ask help.Thank you i prune my spider plant hope it will grow.your easy care .
Hi! Great video – learned a lot 🙂 Question… when you pulled out the plant to inspect the root, I was really surprised that it wasn't root-bound. Do you already have a video that talks about transplanting a root bound plant? TIA!
its a spider plant, not a snake plant! there is a difference…
If I have alot of of little spiderlings that I'm propagating and put in red solo cups. Where should I keep them for best growth, I live in Florida so its 85 and 100 percent humidity outside. Inside its about 75 and 30 to 40 percent humidity. Answers appreciated I have like 30 of those little guys and I don't want them to die.
I have a spider plant that needs some work and I'm going to do it now that I've watched this video.
Thank you for this video!! What causes the Spider’s leaves to start to bend? And is there any way to “straighten” them out or is it a lost cause and should I just take them off?
Coolest, what if the spider plant's base turn brown and melt? how to rescue?
I would appreciate spider plant watering tips because I can NOT seem to get a good balance, especially since I live in a dry place and have to have the windows open all summer due to no air conditioning. Thank you!
I'm pretty proud of my avocado tree rn. Convinced my in-laws to let me have it a couple months ago because it was so pitiful. Someone gave it to them as a gift I think. It's about 2 feet tall. Had about 4 full sized, sagging, pale green, spotted leaves. And a handful of newer, small pale green leaves. They kept it in a bucket with 3 tiny holes drilled in the bottom and the soil was like… idk maybe it was some they bought when they put in flower beds? It was dense and heavy and not well draining. I'm pretty new to the plant lady life and I used to be pretty dang good at killing plants. But yea, repotted that sucker, put it in kind of a transitional light space (they had it way up under their covered patio… extremely little to no direct sun). It got attacked by some sort of pest. I dealt with that. It was looking worse than ever but still appeared to be working on some new leaves at the top. FINALLY within the last couple weeks, those leaves came out and they're lovely dark, dark green leaves. Like 8 of them!
Well at least I know I did the correct thing for my friends spider plant. It was in really bad shape and I did my best to save it for her. It's doing well now. Thank you for this video.
Please help…I do have root rot and want to save my plant.
Would've made sense if you'd actually demonstrate saving a "dying" plant. There was nothing wrong with this plant other than some broken blades.
Could u make a similar video for a dying prayer plant
Amazing video. I can see the Big difference
Thank u
. That plant is far from dying. Dont let this make yall think EVERY gardener dont kill plants because any good or bad gardener has.
Great video. I would like you to tell us soil mix/recipe for every plants when you repot or new pot for propagation if that is possible. See in this video you were able to use the same soil from old pot. But sometimes often we need to add more soil, or just whole a lot more for a new pot. I learned soil and how to water is the key. (I learned that from your video)
And if I may be greedy, fertilizer/plant food also.
So… please consider. Thank you!!
Spider or snake?
I have a spider plant and a train's planet last week but I think I might have put it in a bigger pot and it's still the soul is real worldwide can you tell me what I'm doing wrong please
Yes I have a spider plant that I just trains planted and the soul is still the world still rude route wet and it's in a bigger bigger pot please tell me what I did wrong
Love your videos – learned a lot. A the beginning of this video, you mentioned your SNAKE plant. By the end of the video, you were calling it your SPIDER plant. LOL
I haven’t been able to find an answer to this, but the water that drains from my spider plant has a bunch of white things in it that move. Idk what they are or how to deal with them
I just bought a spider plant that had many dead leaves. Wish I wouldn't watched the video before repotting it because I didn't know to look at the bottom roots. I'll see how it does I hope it makes it.
When the tip of the leaf is broke off & missing… I cut a new point on the tip. That way it looks natural. I particularly do this to palm trees and they look like new.
Those little shoots you pulled out had roots. You should have loosened the soil and taken them out and re-pot them. This would eliminate the need to try and root them. I do this all the time with my spiders.