Mid-Atlantic Gardening: PLANT ADDICTS CHAT # 2, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Sally--

Yes--I would guess it is over watering....They make those "cloves" all over
their roots which store water--and these "cloves" can totally fill the pot.
THEN--the plant becomes miserably root-bound and needs more watering.

Not that it is worth it--you can take the whole plant out of the pot and toot-prune
it quite severely. Re-pot in fresh soil and allow it to recover...it will grow again.

Not that this is a secret of any kind--but I root all my spider cuttings in water first.
They will grow oodles of white roots--a continuation of the stubby roots they
already have when you pick them off the plant.
Sometimes they sit there--roots filling the glass--for a month or more.
I think Spider plants could, actually, GROW in water...

Then I just take a small pot-- fill it with MIX and gather up all the roots
in my fingers and stick it in the soil...where it just continues growing...

Are you sticking your cuttings straight in soil? That may be the problem.
Or--are you talking about your whole spider plant rotting out at the base?
That could be too often a watering...

Here is a rooting cutting...roots all over in the water...
I'll get around to potting it up--some day...