Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: New To Houseplants, Spider Plants, 1 by tikipod

tikipod wrote:
My mom and nana had loads of house plants growing up. I remember one they both had, I believe, was a spider plant. I had been toying with the idea of adding a house plant and then my neighbor gave me some of her Spider babies. Of the many, one has survived the wrath of my cat and it is because she is all up in a hanging basket now. My first lesson in gardening with cats lol.

The baby is receiving some much needed care, as my son pulled down her pot. After potting her into a way smaller pot she's doing great and I've since then I've added a few more ...Variegated Bonnie, All Green, White Edged/Green Center, and now an Airplane.

I've noticed some problems on the plants, some I posted about. I searched the topic on here and followed some links posted.
I read on here or another website to pull them out and check the roots. I spotted that the soil wasn't doing what it should and the roots weren't looking good. I rinsed the bad soil off, trimmed the bad roots off, and repotted in recommended potting soil with added drainage. Most the plants were like this and all have dramatically improved.

The newest one was sort of difficult. I was going to wait to re-pot it but when I went to water I noticed it had no drainage holes. So I popped her out, with much difficulty, and found out a plastic disk was stuck in her roots to prevent her from draining. I removed it, re-potted it, and then watered.

Because gnats are an issue where I live, I made sure I knew the watering information. I also added a layer of sand and gravel to the top to prevent new gnats laying eggs. So far so good!

Some have perked up and are sending out new shoots. There are few concerns though such as spots on the leaves of my new one. I'll add a picture if anyone would like to see the spot, it's not show on this photo I don't think.