I found this plant in car park, helpfully identified by a fellow redditor as a pinstripe calathea. I wanted to know should i keep it in the glass of water it was in? Or can she be grown in soil?
Hi. I want to know this as well lol. Anyway. I have the lemon one (I think this is the name) in water after she was adamant she wants to die. Now she gave me three new leaves in a month.
My thinking is…..yes. they can live in water and it looks better imo. I change the water once a week. I use normal tap water that I have in plastic open water bottles. But we have really good tap water.
Strange-Mine6440
I have mine and leca and that has been what’s kept the alive. When I had them in soil they kept dying.
Cold-Ad-3994
You could try potting it in PON and/or akadama since it already has water roots. I have a calathea Dottie in a 50/50 mix of PON and akadama and it’s thriving. You can learn more over at r/semihydro
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Hi. I want to know this as well lol. Anyway. I have the lemon one (I think this is the name) in water after she was adamant she wants to die. Now she gave me three new leaves in a month.
My thinking is…..yes. they can live in water and it looks better imo. I change the water once a week. I use normal tap water that I have in plastic open water bottles. But we have really good tap water.
I have mine and leca and that has been what’s kept the alive. When I had them in soil they kept dying.
You could try potting it in PON and/or akadama since it already has water roots. I have a calathea Dottie in a 50/50 mix of PON and akadama and it’s thriving. You can learn more over at r/semihydro