House Plant Rescue: Saving a Spider Plant From Death 🕷️🌱
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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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