Monday, May 11, 2009

Forgot house plants outside during frost?

I put my house plants out on our deck during the day to get some extra sun. The next day I realized that I had forgotten them out over night and it had frosted. I've since brought them inside but they're not doing too good, they're all limp. Any suggestions on how I could revive them or is it a lost cause?

Forgot house plants outside during frost?
This happened with my spider plants. I have three and keep them outside during the warmer months. In November, the temps at night were still above 40 so I left them out. But I went for 3 days to my sisters and when I came back, they were all frost damaged! I thought I had lost all my wonderful spider plants that I had for 10+ years! They were limp and thawed out and awful. These are BIG plants, one of which is in a large 14 inch pot with a hundred spider trailers hanging down. They ALL died. Most of the parent plants died down to a single leaf. When I brought them in the house. I didn't water at first, but after two days of warmth I watered well. The next week, I started regular fertalizer with a 20-20-20 solution and kept that up keeping the plants moist. These plants like moist. After about 2 1/2 weeks I trimmed off all the dead leaves and trailers and was really dissapointed to have only a leaf or two still alive. However, I am happy to say that they are growing back beautifully now and look even better than before. This was a good rebirth process for them. I was lucky though. Just keep the plants warm, keep them watered, but not wet and then start fertilizing and take of all the dead mushy stuff so the plants won't be putting energy into the old stuff and will focus on new growth. Good luck, I hope it all works out for you!
Reply:I did the same thing with my 10 year old spider plant. I could have cried! What I did was cut it all the way back. I put it in a sunny window and made sure it didn't dry out. It came back very slowly. It's not as full as it was before, but I figure I can always fill it in with cuttings later on.
Reply:If they were watered well, they could be okay. They're going to look bad though, and some may die back to the soil. I have done that myself, and found that if I just kept treating them as if they had not had that experience, they came back, beautiful as ever. But it takes awhile to recover. Maybe all summer. Just don't feel stupid watering and caring for what seems to be an empty pot, do it anyway.
Reply:i think you lost them but just in case leave them alone for a couple of days see what happens but i do think you lost them.

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