Took the plunge. How could I not? She’s gorgeous. Don’t want her to die. All tips and experiences welcome!
by Portia_Elegant
Took the plunge. How could I not? She’s gorgeous. Don’t want her to die. All tips and experiences welcome!
by Portia_Elegant
9 Comments
She’s beautiful!!!!
Ohhhh those seductive beauties 😂 I have no advice to offer and only profuse prayers for your success!
May it always be as stunning as the day you fell in love 🥰
Use a self-watering pot to keep it consistently moist and use distilled/rain water. It’ll do great. They actually can tolerate some dryness, but clearly you want it to flourish and self-watering is the easiest thing to do. (It’s a maranta, btw)
Agree with all of this! Some other tips that have helped me – water softener if you don’t want to do distilled or rain water and mine do well in lower light. This plant is beautiful and big and already established and that will help her be more forgiving – they can be a little dramatic. I love marantas! Good luck!
distilled water and no cold drafts! Other than that, this is one of the easier calatheas I’ve had, not to mention ton they’re so pretty
Pretty! I bring mine into the bathroom every once in a while so it gets some humidity from the shower. Someone in another group mentioned that…my prayer plant seems to like it!
Humidifier, keep moist but not drenched or super soaked, give low to medium light. You’ll know when she too dry or lacking humidity, the leave will crisp around the ends, watering issue when full leaf are soft or yellow , nutrient deficient when several leaves have a yellow border around them , and sun/light stress/burnt orangish brownish leaf border, not enough light, slow new leaf growth and long leggy stems .
When she’s really happy she’ll flower white or light purple looking flowers that last no more than 7 days in my experience.
They’re not hard to care for . You got this 👌☺️
Man, people say they’re hard but I recently fell in love with calatheas and *knock on wood* I have not had much trouble! I love how quickly they get new leaves. People say to water with rain or distilled water so I use distilled (when I remember) and mine seem to be doing great.
I water mine with regular tap (it’s hard water too), and just make sure it doesn’t sit dry too long. East window has been perfect for it.
They’re nowhere near as prissy as many people think. My experience with calathea and maranta has been that they often look rough during acclimation, but are actually extremely adaptable. Just be consistent, and the plant will get use to the routine, and THEN it will start growing for you.
If it gets too dry for too long, sometimes you can lose all the leaves. It isn’t necessarily dead, as they have an underground rhyzome. Keep watering the pot so it is just slightly moist, and after 6-8 weeks, it will resprout from the underground portion, almost like how an iris will come back up in spring.