Viewing post #393954 by Jookieblue

Hello everyone, Im usually seen over on the Cactus and Succulent forums....but I have a question about a couple of my houseplants.

I had bought the common Spider plant some time ago. My cat apparently decided he didnt have enough green in his diet so he chewed off about every leaf possible that he could get to. I finally decided to hang it up where he couldnt get to it. (guess i should have done that in the first place ) Anyways, one day I decided to repot my spider into two different pots and I cut all the icky chewed leaves off so it looked halfway decent. They are not really growing all that fast so far but what I am curious about is why everytime I think it is about to start producing babies the shoots dry up along with the little white flowers and then go away? This happens all the time. I make sure to give it a good soaking about one a week and have it so it receives indirect sunlight for a good part of the day. I have even tried giving it a little fertilizer to see if that would help. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated






Ok, Second question is about my ivy. I bought a really nice ivy from my local hardware store to put into these little sconces(?) that hang on my wall. They have little glass pots in them. I split the ivy into two and planted half in one and half in the other. They were doing very very well for awhile but now they are drying up and leaves are falling off daily. These receive indirect sunlight in my living room and I dont have them by any vents or anything as I have heard that can be bad for them. I also try to keep them a little more on the moist side and water when the soil starts to feel dry about an inch down. I am going to take them out of there and put them in one pot together and see how they do. What plants would do well in these? It would need to be something with a little root system as the pots are not all that deep and would probably do best with ones that only need low light. I would like to plant some sedum maybe? or something that would grow fairly quickly indoors and sorta drape over. Im really into the succulents currently as well. Any suggestions? Here are before and after pics of my english ivy.