Beginner Gardening: Spider Plants (4) new plant owner questions, 1 by Diana66

Diana66 wrote:
Just wanted to say that's a good-looking spider plant. This is what mine looks like. A starter from eBay. It's actually outside. I seem to do better with plants outside, even when they're supposed to be houseplants. As long as they have some cover above them.

I like someone's post about neglecting a spider plant. I told my mom (who lives in frigid climates) that I recently bought a spider plant because it's one of the ones I remember hanging in the house from when I was a child. She told me that one year, when we lived in northeast Oregon, the house froze (we used woodstove heating) and she lost everything except the spider plants. She still has one of the survivors. This is like 20 years ago.

I don't know what to do about plants that need to be hosed, but for the ones who I can water with watering pots, I always keep the pots filled with water and supposedly the chlorine dissipates in a couple hours. So when water day comes, there's not chlorine in them. I don't know about all the other stuff in city water.

For my smaller house plants, I collect the unfinished bottled water my son leaves around and use them for when the plants need to be watered.

Anyway, I think your plant is beautiful. That was what I had in mind when I got this one. I'm going to remove the saucer like you did.