I have an indoor plant wall, a dozen different plants, all doing extremely well. Because I have very little natural light, I have a high quality grow light. All the plants are happy save for 1 plant that someone gave me as a gift...a very productive variegated spider plant. When it first arrived, if was obviously healthy..bright green with spiderettes galore...at least 50 of them. The spiderettes had spiderettes, just a lovely plant. Well, almost from day 1 the plant has gone down-hill. At first, leaves on the mother plant were turning yellow and softening. I read "over-watering". Okay...I let it go to just about dry and then watered. Slowly, the spiderettes starting to die. The lowest-most ones thinned out, dried and turned totally brown. The mother continued to degrade. I am hoping to save the plant and bring it back to its former beauty. Currently, it gets about 1.5 hours of grow light. I sprayed the spiderettes regularly. Is it possible that the spiderettes actually drain nourishment? Should I cut them all back so that the mother can recover? Do spider plants not like grow-lights? I just cleaned off all the dead and thin legs, but am at a loss as to what to do now. I have uploaded a picture, and while it doesn't look that bad, believe me, it's a third its original density and its lost its brightness totally. Thanks for any help.
