let it leave me like a long breath

okay so a while back i repotted my spider plant. the soil was like 75% roots and some parts were so gnarled that they were trapping water and getting moldy. like uh when i got the plant it was pretty rootbound so i repotted it, but i didn't really separate the roots in the way i should have, and it was into a pot that wasn't really big enough anyway. and then i kept it in that pot for like another year or so. it was _really_ rootbound.

so a few months ago i repotted it, and when i was doing that i broke the main growth apart into three separate plants b/c there were three distinct 'crowns'. since then they've all gotten more established, but... yeah uh turns out all that overcrowding and the dim light i was keeping it in weren't actually very good for it. i left one outside where it's getting direct morning sunlight, and... okay for all of them the main crown has only grown a few new leaves, but they're all much broader and darker. but the spiderettes on the one i left outside look like an entirely different plant. this spider plant is variegated, and in all the old leaves this has been expressed as mostly-white leaves with a thin yellow-green margin at the edges. also all the leaves are very long and very thin. meanwhile the spiderettes have short broad leaves that are nearly solid dark green, with a thin white line in the center. a few leaves have more complex green/yellow-green/white streaking patterns.

basically they look really nice but in a way that kinda makes me feed bad for how i've been taking care of it up until now.

also i got a fern a little bit ago and so far it's been doing well, but i need to repot it out of its nursery pot and i don't really know what to do about soil, because ferns are a plant that definitely require something other than just houseplant soil mix. gotta figure that out.