Can a Spider Plant Live in a Bathroom? Yes — If Yours Has These Three Things
Can a spider plant live in a bathroom? Yes — better than almost anything else you'd put there — but only if that bathroom has a window you can see daylight through. The humidity everyone talks about is the least important part of the answer. Here is the honest split. A bathroom with a frosted or textured window that lets in real daylight is genuinely good for a spider plant ( Chlorophytum comosum ): steady moisture in the air, no scorching sun, warm temperatures. A bathroom with a small window 2 m (6.5 ft) away behind a shower screen is survivable — the plant holds on, stops making babies, and slowly thins out. A bathroom with no window at all , lit only when you flip the switch, is not a home for any plant. It is a holding cell. The spider plant will coast on stored energy for two to four months, lose its variegation, then collapse from the centre. The thing that actually kills bathroom spider plants is not darkness on its own. It is darkness plus a normal watering routine — t...