Wow! Hats off to you for keeping so many prayer plants alive, bought many, many a times but couldn't find the secret to keep them alive till now. Sending love from India
Great video! Calathea will lose their dark back to the leaves when they are getting too much light. The dark back is meant to absorb more light in their natural low light environment. So when they are getting too much light they stop producing the dark back. Just move them back from the light some and you'll get those dark leaves again soon 😊 Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful plants!
My son just bought a Prayer Plant like the first one that you showed us!! I mentioned you when I saw the plant that he bought & that it looked like that plant lady’s plants , because I had your $1 Tree video playing on the tv a few weeks ago!! Which led me to more of your videos & I definitely recognized your plants!! Thank you for the info!! 💝🌿
I started with the Lancifolia (Rattlesnake) it was so easy going, lots of new growth very chill. I have a cat so when I found out the genus was pet safe I decided to get four more. Little did I know their reputation for being fussy. My Orbifolia and Ornata did not enjoy transport and started to get crispy immediately, my Majestica Whitestar randomly decides to get crispy. Now I have them clustered around an oil diffuser (without oil) working as a humidifier and we're on better terms. Including new growth from everyone. The only one that hasn't been a problem is the Burle Marx and I highly recommend that one. Calatheas are wonderful, but you have to learn to speak their language.
Beautiful collection! 😍 I've been equally blessed when it comes to prayer plant care and have great success with them in lower than ideal humidity and artificial lighting. They do, AMAZING in the interior of my home under regular old light bulbs. Pushing new growth constantly. Thank u for the reminder about wet leaves when it comes to the trio star.
Probably your prayer plants are the most chill ever! Other people use humidifier for their prayer plants. As someone who lives in tropical country, sometimes I'm still struggling with humidity too. I'm not even stressed about brown tips anymore since it always happen lol but yours are amazing. The grey star and the beauty star are my next wishlish calathea! Really wanna know how your beauty star is doing right now 😁 my zebrina once lost its purple back too because it was exposed by too much sunlight so the spot was simply too bright for it. I decided to chop it, started all over again, put it in a shaded area alongside other pot propagations and now the purple are back and the leaves are huge! Love from Indonesia ❤️
Thank you for sharing your beautiful Calathea and prayer plants! I have always had the rabbit track prayer plants but have recently purchased different calathea varieties and I love them and now I am addicted to them and my husband just shakes his head when my plants arrive!😜 Thank you again for sharing because I was able to get some pointers and confirmations from your video! Keep sharing and God bless!!💕❤💕
I've found - like you - that they like a lot of humidity but not necessarily to the leaves.* I think the main thing is to keep the roots humid and this is why they can never dry out. However, they need a lot of aeration, too, and the trick is maintaining that balance. I've been experimenting a bit with them and have had quite a bit of luck with the combination of potting them in Lechuza pon and self-watering pots (filled with distilled water). They become super low maintenance when you don't have to water them regularly or spray them. I have super low humidity and never run a humidifier. And I don't have to worry about checking them constantly to make sure they're moist (but not compacted). I know pon isn't the easiest to come by in some places, but it's made my life so much easier when it comes to tricky plants. The stones hold a lot of air while holding moisture, so it creates that tricky balance and makes overwatering nearly impossible. Aroids and hoyas love it, too, but I don't have them in self-watering, but just pot and water them normally as if it was soil. Hope that helps.
@@lisabromeliads8150 No, it's a similar semi-hydro mix, but I've found it a lot easier for plants to adapt to (most of them need no adaptation at all). It's a mix of small pieces of volcanic rock, pumice, and zeolite. I think the stuff's amazing and I've been surprised by how many of my trickier plants became much easier to take care of after converting them to pon. It's not super widely available, though.
I love your videos ❤️ I agree with you about the cattlesnake they are so easy. Mine are growing on soil under my mangoe tree. Also I got at Lowes the Calathea rabbit simple and variegated both in the same pot for 4 o 5 bucks ! Great deal ! I put in all my pots a single layer of gravel to avoid compacting the drainage hole but I use the same poking the soil above with my fingers ( I always misplaced my toothpicks ) 😊
Love your collection! They look so healthy and happy. One trick I've learned about neem oil is to do it late in the day, or evening as ultra violet light increases the amount the leaves burn from it, or increases their sensitivity to it. Hooe those tricky ones come good for you.
New subscriber! It was a pleasure hearing about your plants. You are very patient if you care for these kinds of plants. I have the Stromanthe and a few Calatheas. I'm learning to pay attention to them. You are a good mama!
great video. for me zebrina, white fusion and medallion are the most difficult ones but strangely my dotti is doing really well eventhough it's not in high humidity and I sometimes forget to water it in time. most of my calatheas hate neem oil and it burns their leaves. I have to wipe leaves down regularly to prevent spider mites because when they get spider mites, any treatment burns their leaves. and even when calatheas loose all their leaves if roots and rysomes are healthy they come back. and the leaves they produce in my house are more resilient and tolerate low humidity easier
I don't have lots of money to spare, so I usually like to take the smaller plants as they are cheaper and I can watch them grow and marvel at how big they get over time 😊
💚 Amazing how you keep these so healthy! Could you someday make a video on Alocacia's? I've had 2 and sudden death both within 2weeks 😭 It looked like wet ink spots and developed a halo 😇 around the spots and then just dried up. I was so sad cause they're such stunning plants!
Overall your calathea look beautiful and healthy. My problem is the medallion. All winter beautiful thriving new foliage. Now it’s going downhill as we head into spring. I repotted in a light mix and still no luck. Would I buy it again. No. My stromanthe on the other hand is just fine.
It was mentioned in the video but I'd like to focus on it again. These plants really struggle with chemicals in tap water. If you feel you are giving your plant the perfect environment but the leaf tips are still getting dry and crispy, try rain, filtered or distilled water.
I actually have been going mine rainwater but some came with brown tips so Im not sure whats going on BUT I do just use tap water in my humidifier so I wonder if that could be an issue?
Yes to filtered water! I just use water from my Brita and all of mine are doing great. I have 5, and during the winter, I sit them on top of trays of pebbles and water to raise the humidity a bit. I also use predatory mites. I started with Calatheas and had no idea what I was getting into. Obviously didn't do my research as a new plant Mom at the time. It's been a lot of "Oh wtf is wrong with you now?!" LOL!! They're so dramatic.
My rattlesnake isn't getting any taller.. Its in a 5in plastic pot.. Idk its in my bathroom. Its not crispy..but just not growing....its been 2yrs now. I gave some fertilizer...ok m just glad its surviving!!
Thank you for this video!! They are all SO GORGEOUS!! I LOVEEE Calatheas, and now that my humidifier should be coming in from Amazon annny day... I've got Calathea fever again! lol I just bought a never never plant, and I'm sooooo intimidated by it!! and I love it SOOO MUCH!! I'm itching for that humidifier haha! I adore your channel, and after a crazy day with my kids I get so excited when I get a notification that you made a new video. I get so excited to watch it with a glass of wine at night!
I love your prayer plant collection and your energy in this video💚🙌☺ beautiful marantacea 💚 I think the last one that lost its pink and white did not get enough light and reverted..could possibly come back with higher light💚☺ most calathea do not revert though so not something to always worry about👍☺
@@EVTD79 glad I wasn't the only one thinking it...I did try to see if the patent said it was stable or not but did not have much luck..of course they say the white fusion is stable to but its not either so🤷♀️😂
Great video and beautiful, beautiful plants. What is your water to Alaska fish emulsion fertilizer ratio? Can you please do a video on plant fertilizer when you get a chance?
I have our have had most of the plants she shared with us and the only two that didn't work out for me is the medallion and the dottie. I threw away both, I'd bought them as young plants. Yesterday I came up on a deal of a huge medallion and it had 6 new leaves coming up as well. I bought it for 26.00 at home depot, it is so big. Hopefully it'll stay healthy
I believe it’s the lite that hits the white part of a plant that makes it burn. I spray down mine all the time but no brite lite until it dries. Agree on the Dotties they are difficult but the grow back. My rattlesnake has a fungus where a few crispy tips and it keep spreading so I cut off all the crispy tip leaves neam oiled it and it’s big and beautiful
Mealy bugs will stunt the growth it may get better when you get rid of the pests. It may not be a hard plant to grow at all. I'd check the other's for mealy bugs save yourself from a dead or badly infested plant. Zebrina are the difficult ones.
They say Calathea lose the color on the back if they are getting a lot of light. If they get indirect light the burgundy color stays because it is used to capture light and retain it. Hey your Dottie looks like my Calathea. I seriously think they go into severe shock and then come back when you get them. But they look awful in the meantime
Thanks for letting me know!!! 😊I’m finishing with your grocery shopping. it’s everything correct? it’s anything else that i can help you with? do you need anything else? I’m here for you! 😊😊💚😊
I have had a stromanthe tri for a few months (maybe four) and I’ve sprayed it every day, sometimes twice a day with distilled water and I haven’t had a discoloring issue...
I don't see the Peacock Plant variety. My 1st Calathea and I put it in a ceramic pot. It stays moist all the time. Can never water it. Doesn't dry out. Has not grown one bit. I've changed its location a few times. No change! Any ideas? I'm afraid of them now.
Maybe you can check the roots… if the plant had a long time wet soil… can be root rot… 😔 not sure… hope I’m wrong… change the soil or mix a little bit of perlite…
Hi! Yes it’s true prices are higher this year. I actually just check often when I’m near a Lowe’s or Walmart. It’s actually seams to vary the day stores restock. 🪴
Find a big one if you have and are struggling with a smaller one. I bought one probably double the size of her big one last year, and that guys is beautiful, happy, always pushing out new growth, and basically cares for itself. Because I was doing so great with my biggen, I bought a smaller one last fall, and that thing was ALWAYS on the struggle bus! I actually bought the bigger one because I thought I'd separate and gift some of it, but after struggling with the smaller one for so long I finally came to yt to find out what I was doing wrong, and every single person that had a bigger one said the bigger the plant the easier it is to take care of the smaller the triostar the harder it is to take care of. So I gifted my mom my smaller one, and kept my bigger one in tact, and she ended up killing the smaller one. The bigger one is still doing great, sitting outside on the porch now, probably ready for a bigger pot, I just have to find one big enough for it, cause it is a monster!
Your second plant is a Ctenanthe Setosa. Grey and Silver Stars are different to my knowledge. Faded backsides of leaves = too much light. Morning light is too strong. These plants need low light. RU-vidrs have different opinions on which Calathea is the most difficult. For some, Dottie is the easiest. You are not a beginner. You are very much an expert, yet I notice that all your prayer plants (even lancifolia) have brown edges/spots. It is a misconception that Calatheas are not for beginners. I am a beginner. I killed plants for 25 years without caring. Then five months ago, I started my own collection I have 20 now. I do not have any brown edges or spots except the ones that occurred in the shop or during a few weeks of acclimatising. Calatheas need perfect conditions: light, temperature, soil, humidity, water, watering, fertiliser, etc. To take care of them, you need a guide and a regular systematic approach. I check my collection every day. If you do the same, I am sure your collection would look near-perfect too.