PotPal's default range for spider plant
- Summer: every 3–4 days
- Spring and autumn: every 5 days
- Winter: every 7 days
These ranges are PotPal's default starting point for this species by season; once the plant is in the app, PotPal adjusts them for light, pot, soil mix and local weather. They are PotPal's convention, not a general gardening rule, and checking the soil always comes first.
Light
Bright, indirect light is all it needs.
The most common way it gets killed
Keeping the summer pace into winter; about once a week is enough then.
How to check
Touch the topsoil and water thoroughly when it's dry; in hot summer weather you can top up morning and evening.
The general rule of checking the soil rather than the calendar comes from UConn Home and Garden Education Center, Houseplant Watering Recommendations (homegarden.cahnr.uconn.edu), checked 2026-10-13.
Let PotPal keep track
PotPal works out a watering window for each plant you add and sends a local reminder, and you can tap Not dry yet when the soil is still damp. Adopting spider plant straight from the in-app plant atlas is coming with PotPal 1.4.0, with the range above as its starting point.