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Spider Plant advice sought

ColmOColmO Posts: 101
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hi everyone!
this is a Spider Plant that was the baby of another plant i have, and i put it in the window to start with. then i noticed that the leaves away from the sun were browning and dying. so i thought i should take it out of the window, as it was maybe getting too much sun. i cut off the brown leaves. (does the fact that it's non-variegated make any difference?)
but now the flowers don't seem to be developing as i'd hoped. so should i put it back in the window? the window is west facing.
the last two photos are the mother plant's new babies from this year. the topmost ones are the colour i'd expect, but the lower ones are much paler. i moved it higher up, so that those leaves would get more sun, but it doesn't seem to have made a difference yet. what should i do? many thanks for reading. :)

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I'd say you need to address the soil first as it doesn't look like there's much at all in that pot and as they grow very thick roots you can end up with a pot with basically no soil at all if you're not careful. The lack of variegation does make a difference as this is closer to the wild form of the plant and needs less light than the variegated forms. The sun and heat on windowsills has been pretty brutal this summer and I've pulled all my plants back into the room or moved them into shady parts of the greenhouses. I'm growing some green chlorophytum in the sunnier greenhouse and it's thriving so far but it's in the shade of another plant so not getting too much sun.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ColmOColmO Posts: 101
    thanks very much. would it be a good idea to repot in a bigger pot at the same time, do you think?

    that's interesting about the variegation. perhaps that's the reason for the lack of colour in the mother plant's lower hanging babies? actually, the two variegated plants are nearer the window that the two unvariegated ones. but those are much bigger, so i can't easily swap them. should i pull the unvariegated ones back into the room, and move the variegated ones to where the unvariegated ones are now?
  • ColmOColmO Posts: 101
    should i wait till the flowers have died back before i think about repotting?
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    They look hungry to me .Have you fed them ? 
  • ColmOColmO Posts: 101
    thank you very much, and huge apologies for the lateness. i've had so much going on over the last couple of months. yes, i have been feeding them. the mother plant now has mould on the roots that are showing. i think i need to repot both of them. i'm going away tomorrow for a few days. now i've seen the mould, i don't know how serious this is. i don't mean at all, i'm just worried for the next few days.
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