Have you ever rescued a plant from the brink of DEATH? Lemme know :)

The "before" plant is how my spider plant looks "after" I've cleaned it up. I have all the problems -- I've overwatered it, over-fertilized it, placed it somewhere too shady, to cold, to windy and had my cat snack on it - a lot. I'm basically someone you would rescue a spider plant from.

One other tip is that spider plants absolutely hate being watered with tap water. The chemicals and salt in the tap water will cause browning of the leaves. Be sure to water it with filtered water, distilled water, well water, or spring water. Great video thank you!!!

Don’t think it was in the “brink of death” lol but it look pretty bad.

I’d like a video on root rot! What it looks like and what to do and so on

I don't know about a rescue, but you groomed up that spider plant real nice. That is a pretty healthy spider plant that won't have much difficulty with heavy pruning. My spider plant however, isn't as fortunate. I wasn't taking proper care of it, or my other plants, but it was the spider plant that let me know. The leaves became limp and drooped, lost color, no growth, it wasn't drinking the water I gave it either. It was truly dying. I took it out of the soil, trimmed away groady looking roots, wrapped a soaked paper towel around the roots and then went work on cleaning up its pot and gave it new soil mixture to replant. I repotted the plant, put it next some other plant buddies and prayed. It did nothing for a week or so, but after taking some new pictures, the color has returned to the leaves, some are starting to stiffen again, and.... I noticed new growth! It is actually putting energy towards new growth! I'm not a plant expert, but I believe this is the same as when an Ill person starts eating again. Man. I think it's going to make it

That's a really healthy spider plant I want to know how to save one that's doing badly

My # one tips for Spiders is 1. Only use distilled or filtered water from a Brita pitcher and let it get room temp. 2. Do NOT use perlite in your soil mix. Spiders have a sensitivity to Fluorite and if* you follow these 2 tip your spider plant will never have brown tips at all unless it goes unwatered too long and the leaves start losing their color.

Spider plants are supposed to be one of the easiest plants to care for, but I've tried twice. I can't keep them healthy. They decline in health rapidly after being brought home 🤷

I have caused plants to be on the brink of death

I got a spider plant at a yard sale for free one time, it was in a gal size pot with about 3-4in' of soil. It had so many shoots. I've had it for about 4 or more years now. Everyone I know has a pup from it. The yard sale I got it from was for an elderly lady who's children were moving her to their home b/c she had dementia. Her name was Martha, so naturally I named the plant Martha. She's been a good plant. Your plant looks so much happier.

I call my spider a snake all the time lol so I named it Voldy I love your videos they're very informative and you seem like a mellow, smart guy 🤗 I got a Philidendron Brazil from Walmart that looked god awful. I watched it decline over the weeks and felt so bad. Once they discounted it, I brought it home and a week later you'd never know it was on the brink. So empowering! Haha

Yes I would love for you to do a propagation videos on any and lot of plants on how to propagate different types of plants. I just started watching your videos and subscription. Thank you for all the propagation videos. I really need the help identifying which method is appropriate for each plant. Thanks tjw

You’ve always been my go to person to follow advice with my plant babies. My partner says all my spider plants look healthy and happy. Thank you sir!

I love that you don't just up and end the video, you show the after. And deeply go through it. Thank you :D

Must say, these spider plants are resilient! Mine lived with me from nursery for two years with a plastic disc in the bottom not allowing roots to reach the bottom soil, but to go over and around the disc. The other day I repotted and found the plastic. I was going to leave it because it was so embedded in roots, but I just couldnt so with much care I removed it, and today I see the first ever (in two years)baby spiderlet that it is offering me as a thankyou. Yay! Sorry about long comment!

My spider plant is almost in the same condition after my cat chomped some of the leaves. I'm eager to to try this later! Thank you so much 🙌🏻

Update this plant when it branches out and flowered🙂👍

I'm always bringing back plants from the brink of death mate. I get friends just dump them on me saying they are dieing and nothing they can do for it. Within a couple of weeks, it could be on a show bench lol

Wow even after 10 days she looks much better. Color, growth, nice vid thank you!

Best youtube video ever. Fast, engaging, funny, HELPFUL, all without the fluff. Would love a version of this for beginners (tell me how to trim each leaf - can you rip them off? do you need scissors? do you need to clip at an angle? how and why.)

I answered you about you doing more prop/videos, more knowledge the better for the plants and you. I just gave up on my spider plant!!! It had no color and was just lumpy. I didn’t get to it in time. I didn’t go through the process that you did on your plant. Regret it was given to me several years ago. Not knowing how to care for your plant really means life or death for some. I’ll read up and purchase a healthy spider plant and give it another go. Their really spectacular plants when they are full of peeps and lush looking. Cross your fingers. Thank you for all your knowledge. TJW

I had brought my prayer plant back a couple different times; but, the last time, it was not able to be brought back. I'd been hospitalized for 5-6 months and nobody was filling the reservoir on the self watering container. It was a good plant and I would like to get another one; but, house plants are hard to find in my area. I used to have a spider plant which I kept in a hanging basket. It would send out runners, like strawberry plants do. At the end of the runners would be tiny spider plants. At a certain point, I would take the spider plant down from its hanger and sit it on a table or desk. Then I would use hair pins; not, bobby pins, to help fasten the baby spider plant into the soil. I did not want to cut the runner until I knew the baby had a chance to take root. Once it did, I figured it would be save to cut the cord. There's probably other ways; but, this is what I did and it worked for me. Now, I don't have the space for a spider plant. I think they are interesting plants, though.

I just got a plant from a friend that is very damaged. I’ve wanted a spider plant so bad. I managed to pull some healthy pups off her. But I appreciate your video very much! Hoping to get her back to health

I’m going to try this heavy prune today. I’ve got nothing to lose. Excited to see if this will help.

That looks like a fairly healthy plant to me. You should see mine. I love plants but I’m not great with spider plants, even though I love them. I have tried different things and have no idea what I’m doing wrong.

My favorite plant, I've had one for 30 years now and it's a monster..

That plant is so grateful. How sweet. 💚 The earth thanks you. 🙂

i love how he said so confidently SNAKE plant😂

Oh! My God I just loved the way you explained everything about the spider plants. In Puerto Rico we also call this spider 🌱 as “ Mala Madre” means bad mother . Thanks a lot.

Yes, please!! We need a propagation video on spider plants!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video!!! 🤜🤜🌿🌱🖤🖤🖤🎃🖤👻

Love your videos - learned a lot. A the beginning of this video, you mentioned your SNAKE plant. By the end of the video, you were calling it your SPIDER plant. LOL

I'm currently trying to rescue my Bonnie plant. It came through the mail as a full plant but dying of root rot... All the leaves fell off. It was pruned, then came back some. Then dropped and reported. Grew a few new leaves then I over watered it and those got sick and now it's day three with only a stem. I'm hoping for a miracle.

I actually came from your book! I picked it up last week (I’m trying to grow some food in my apartment over the winter) and I’m CURRENTLY trying to save my spider plant...I pruned back all the diseased, dead and dying but I haven’t repotted him I was scared that was too much stress. Will try repotting him ASAP 💪 thanks :)

That spider plant looks fine

“Look at this piece of trash!” Lol

Cats have been the kiss of death to my spider plants.

Thank you for this video! I just received a very sick spider plant from a neighbor. Going to use your tips to try to save it. It also has quite a bit of babies to it so I’m propagating those as well!

I recently discovered my spider plant had root rot after her leaves kept turning brown and dying. I cut the dead roots and repotted in new soil. I hope she makes it. 🤞🏾

I love your videos! I have learned so much from your videos on gardening and vegetable plants as well as houseplants! Thank you so much for putting together informative and well thought out instructional videos! I literally went from a complete novice to someone who can now teach others because of your instructions.

Spider plants love to be root bound. They will throw off pups on a vine like shoot that you can plant directly into soil. They will thrive in indirect light and when watered when soil becomes dry. A really easy and fun plant to grow.

I’m a certified cosmetologist and cutting my spider plants hair is my fav thing to do. 😂😂

Did he really call that spider plant a snake plant? Lol

My spider plant has minor root rot. So yours looks super healthy 🤣

Thank you for this video! Very informative for me to revive my spider plants that my mother meant to give me a while ago. She was trying to take care of them until I picked them up so now I gotta rescue them lol.

OMG I WISH U WERE HERE TO HELP ME. !! MY ROOTS WERE GINORMOUS!!! I COULDNT GET IT APART!! I WISH I COULD JUST SHOW U!

I just bought a spider plant that had many dead leaves. Wish I wouldn't watched the video before repotting it because I didn't know to look at the bottom roots. I'll see how it does I hope it makes it.

Great video. I would like you to tell us soil mix/recipe for every plants when you repot or new pot for propagation if that is possible. See in this video you were able to use the same soil from old pot. But sometimes often we need to add more soil, or just whole a lot more for a new pot. I learned soil and how to water is the key. (I learned that from your video) And if I may be greedy, fertilizer/plant food also. So... please consider. Thank you!!

he said “honestly😐i😐am😐actually😐pretty😐stoaked😐about😐the😐health😐of😐the😐root😐system” LMAO

When the tip of the leaf is broke off & missing... I cut a new point on the tip. That way it looks natural. I particularly do this to palm trees and they look like new.

I thought I had the name of this plant wrong all this time, until you said it. Lol

Cheers Epic Gardening - Thanks for this clean up and review video.. I really appreciate that "10 days" review...... honest, I would have liked to see a 20 or 30 day review.... I feel I never get to see the wonderful after a repot or pruning video.... but that is more of a "All Growers" on you tube... I get to see the joy and wonder of pruning or repotting.... and once watered I don't get a follow up... at least not the ones I have been watching.... Hey.... Here is something I think about all the time and cannot imagine actually doing.... lol I dare ya.. When I pass by different homes I see a lot of well kept plants... I wanna go around to all my neighbors to see how they do it? See if I can record some of their zeal... to get pointers I'd never think of... Anyway thanks again Cheers

Well at least I know I did the correct thing for my friends spider plant. It was in really bad shape and I did my best to save it for her. It's doing well now. Thank you for this video.

Thank you for showing the progress of the rescue!

Very cool. Spider plants are awesome! They end up looking ratty if you aren’t careful so this was s good video. Right now I’ve got a dark green one that makes babies on it’s base. I hadn’t seen that before until I saw yours too. Plus I’ve got a big pot of variegated ones with babies coming out of long strips. I’ve got an aloe that everyone says is an easy plant but mine hates me?! Thanks my planty friend!! 🌱♥️

My mother was given a spider plant while pregnant with me. She was scared she would kill me, and her friend told her to keep the spider plant alive, and she'll do fine with me. I adopted the plant, spread it's leaders, and my big sis is now 31 years old with plenty of clone babies spread over two states! :)

Amazing video. I can see the Big difference

Your video was really helpful! Now I know what a thriving spider plant looks like but could you show us signs that it’s going the other way? I just bought a spider plant as my first plant ever and don’t know how to tell when it’s doing badly

Spider plants are my favorite. I have plenty of them in my garden. Was looking forward to a video on care of spider plants. Thanks for sharing this video ❤

I had bought one from Walmart about a month ago. Just getting into plants, it was nearly dying when I bought it, now I see a bunch of babies coming through 🥲 Every morning I wake up and see new sprouts, I cry a little bit and get emotional. It's ready to be repotted, so I'm going to do that when it needs to be watered again.

Boy have a killed a few plants in my day! This was very helpful :)

".. or you can't see it, you just have to trust me." 😂😂 I love your sense of humor!

I have a spider plant that needs some work and I'm going to do it now that I've watched this video.

Yes, please do a propagation video.. Thank you. ❤️

I rescued a little spider plant from Wal-Mart thinking it be like under 5.00 back in May this year😂 (never had a price tag but I thought it be under like 5.00 ) Wal-Mart wanted there money and charged me 20.00 for a silly planter she never sat in for long. Flash forward to today and she has spider pups babies and thriving and growing and living life. Worth the save. But not worth the 20.00 planter 🤦‍♀️

A certified plantotologist. Love that

I happy i ask help.Thank you i prune my spider plant hope it will grow.your easy care .

Plz do an Aloe Vera one too.. mine is growing but its soo unhealthy.. thin leaves that look dead 💁🏽‍♀️

Those little shoots you pulled out had roots. You should have loosened the soil and taken them out and re-pot them. This would eliminate the need to try and root them. I do this all the time with my spiders.

I need this for my catnip plants. They're a mint they should be indestructible, but they're falling apart.

Could u make a similar video for a dying prayer plant

Hi Epic!! I have a spider living in my croton plant. She has been there for maybe 8 months! I have over 80 indoor plants in semi hydroponic. I need to care for the plant but do not want to disturb "Elvira" my spider. What would you do? I know she helps me care for other pest problems so I want her to live there. She never moves from the Croton plant in the window. I will feel really bad to take her home and job away😇 Thank you & love your work!!😻

Hello. I found your videos and they are so much better than books. Can you make a video about propagating spider plants shown here in this video, and also how to help the Wandering jew? I used to grow them with great success but they no longer react to me even in very light rooms and great initial condition. They all die. I put 7 baby spider plants without roots in small pots and water them daily in the warm conservatory. Is that a successful way to grow these nany plants? Also, how do I propagate in water? Another problem I have is with Deffenbachias. I used to grow them 2 or 3 foot high, but I received 6 over the last 2 years, none of which survived, despite being 3 metres away from direct sunlight and having little watering, as their roots rot like mad. I now bought one from a comany in Germany and this Dieffenbachia has so far recovered from too much water in the soil exceptionally well but I am afraid it will die as well, if I do something wrong. How do I keep it in a very light house connected to a small conservatory without doors (rented house)? What can one do when a branch loses all its lower leaves and only produces two leaves at the top which die and slowly take over the plant with yellow soggy leaves. I look forward to seeing more of your videos which are by far the best I have seen on KZfaq, and I hope you don't mind my questions.

Just got a spider plant and definitely did not do anything you did 😅 I did remove a few dead leaves but it has a lot of baby ones growing

I'm pretty proud of my avocado tree rn. Convinced my in-laws to let me have it a couple months ago because it was so pitiful. Someone gave it to them as a gift I think. It's about 2 feet tall. Had about 4 full sized, sagging, pale green, spotted leaves. And a handful of newer, small pale green leaves. They kept it in a bucket with 3 tiny holes drilled in the bottom and the soil was like... idk maybe it was some they bought when they put in flower beds? It was dense and heavy and not well draining. I'm pretty new to the plant lady life and I used to be pretty dang good at killing plants. But yea, repotted that sucker, put it in kind of a transitional light space (they had it way up under their covered patio... extremely little to no direct sun). It got attacked by some sort of pest. I dealt with that. It was looking worse than ever but still appeared to be working on some new leaves at the top. FINALLY within the last couple weeks, those leaves came out and they're lovely dark, dark green leaves. Like 8 of them!

I keep seeing people post in fb plant groups about quarantining house plants. I would love to see a video on that if you recommend it.

I almost killed my string of pearls but I've managed to keep on piece going and it's finally got a couple off shoots 🙌

Excellent information that really helped. It was one foot out-the-door. It also helped to see a healthy root system. Mine definitely needed a new pot with space to grow. I now think I have a happy camper in the window.

Thanks I have 2 I'm not giving up on them.

Would like to see a spider plant propagation video.

Awesome video thanks👍🏼🤗💯

that's not even close to death... it just needs a bit of care, come on...

This guy looks like a darker Dean Lister

Explain how you rescued this "Snake Plant". It didn't need re-potting so all you did to "rescue" it was to trim it a little. lol

Also this video really helped me thank u so much!!

Great video...Thank you. ❤

I will follow ur trick to my spider plant now

Should you let plant get rootbound before trans-planting it?

I think I'm going to have to do this with my Pearls and Jade pothos. The store drowned it and I think the soil it came in might retain too much water. It's getting brown spots on the leaves and just isn't growing successfully like all my others. It doesn't look horrible but it also doesn't look happy :/

I love rescuing plants. Great video. Thanks for posting.

My biggest question is how often I should water it. Mine keeps getting brown leaves and is droopy. This was a great video though!

How do you even kill spider plants? They grow like maniac in my house no matter what I do. They grow, grow, spread, spread and my house could be covered by this plant. I gave some shoot to my friend and he said he killed it. I could not believe it. I don't even have to water them for long time. They are healthy as rock. It started from one small piece I took from my co worker's plant and her plant didn't even look good. I have no clue what it is that make them grow so aggressively and so healthy.

A) Ugly plant in need of grooming - NOT "brink of death". B) YES, should have been a little lower in pot - jamming it in a little harder is not the best solution = TRY AGAIN while you still have a mess to clean up!

I wish you could repot my spider plant ! 🤗 she fell on the floor and I defently think she needs that ; the problem is she's big and I dont want to hurt her while repoting..

Man handled it 😆😆😆😆😆 that's what we all need nowadays 🙃

Hi! Great video - learned a lot :-) Question... when you pulled out the plant to inspect the root, I was really surprised that it wasn't root-bound. Do you already have a video that talks about transplanting a root bound plant? TIA!

You said the roots look fine on this one. Do you have any videos thar show damaged roots and what to do with them?

This is good looking compared to the one I just got from my nana 😅 now that one was on the brink of death! root bound and dry af 🙈

I have a spider plant literally halfway hanging out of the planter - half dead for years... my question is if I replant it, how deep should I bury the part that is exposed??

I'm trying hard to get mine back but she had plenty of brown leaves and even with cutting them off and repotting they keep turning brown. I sat the pots outside today to get some bright light (not direct sunlight). I think my major mistake was that I didn't water her right way *cries* so now she looks wilted again and brown again. I don't know if I should just give it time, try cutting the leaves off, or what.