I love how dramatic prayer plants are 😍🌱 #HappyPlants #Pl...
I love how dramatic prayer plants are 😍🌱 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #PrayerPlant
1ft to light, indirect
4” pot with drainage
Last watered 2 weeks ago
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@TerpyDragonfly Me TOO!! It’s such a treat to be able to see them move throughout the day 🤗 Yours is beautiful!
Also just fyi you have a red prayer plant there because of the red colored veins 😁 The green ones have green veins. Greg often misidentifies them 🤪
Also just fyi you have a red prayer plant there because of the red colored veins 😁 The green ones have green veins. Greg often misidentifies them 🤪
@TerpyDragonfly @DreamMachine @Just1More I can’t keep one alive for anything! I keep getting new ones but they never last😞 I just can’t do it! I don’t know what I do wrong, I have tried literally everything, well I guess I haven’t or I would have a live one🤣 anywho- the one I have now has one pitiful leaf left☹️ I JUST DONT KNOW HOW TO KEEP THAT PLANT ALIVE! I can’t do it! I wish I knew the secret! HINT HINT😁
@Ponytailmom what kind of conditions do you keep them in? For the marantas specifically, and at least in my environment, don’t want to be in any bright sun. I actually keep them on a lower table leg (a couple of my plant tables are boards set over step ladders) and that’s where they thrive. 🪜 They pretty much like to be left alone. I kind of treat them like hormonal teenagers. I tell them they’re pretty and that I love them, throw them a tiny bit of fertilizer, and make sure they’re watered, but they just like to hang out with their friends/other calatheas or maranta family.
I’m not sure if this is right, but I heard that if your brown tips are evenly distributed across each leaf, that can be tied to moisture/hunidity issues, but UNEVEN brown tips is often a fungal infection. So I do regularly (every few months) spray them down with a neem and Castile soap treatment. (1 Tb. Pure neem oil + 1/2 tsp. Castile + 32 oz water)
And then sometimes it just depends on species. I have 20 or so calatheas, and I have my really strong and laid back ones (makoyana, ctenanthes, stromanthes, marantas etc) and then some like my ornata and roseopicta types are throwing a fit right now. And sometimes I feel like it’s individual plant personalities 🤷♀️
I’m not sure if this is right, but I heard that if your brown tips are evenly distributed across each leaf, that can be tied to moisture/hunidity issues, but UNEVEN brown tips is often a fungal infection. So I do regularly (every few months) spray them down with a neem and Castile soap treatment. (1 Tb. Pure neem oil + 1/2 tsp. Castile + 32 oz water)
And then sometimes it just depends on species. I have 20 or so calatheas, and I have my really strong and laid back ones (makoyana, ctenanthes, stromanthes, marantas etc) and then some like my ornata and roseopicta types are throwing a fit right now. And sometimes I feel like it’s individual plant personalities 🤷♀️
@Ponytailmom they need a humidity bubble to thrive I put my finger in the soil if the first 1 1/2 to 2 inches of soil is dry I water good with distilled water they are sensitive to minerals and salts, then I have a pebble tray underneath I use leca balls instead of rocks they retain water better, when the tray is fully dry but the leca is still a little damp I add more water you don’t want the bottom of the pot touching water it’s suppose to evaporate around the plant and keep it humid. I live in Maine and have kerosene heat for my house so I mist it 1-2 times a day in the winter and not at all in the winter it’s in my bathroom so shower steam is enough in the humid half of the year. Good luck 🌱💜
@DreamMachine I guess I give them too much attention! I worry over them constantly because I am so scared of messing up! My daughter has one that I don’t even think she remembers she has and it is thriving! It makes me so mad‼️🤣 if I get another, I will try not to care so much I guess! It’s so hard!
YOU ROCK BTW!🪴🌵🌿🌺
YOU ROCK BTW!🪴🌵🌿🌺
@TerpyDragonfly Thank you! I think humidity is my issue! I also worry over them so much! IDK! I will try the tray and see if it helps! THANK YOU!🪴🌿🌺
@MariansOasis I’ve been too scared to get a calathea 🫣 lol, I’ve managed to keep this alive but I’ve heard your cortisol rises when a calathea is in your home 🤣 they are so pretty though!
@Ponytailmom it’s true, omg my poor first maranta like 10 years ago was happy in that same spot, and I totally forgot about him, and then remembered him and thought I should move him to a better brighter spot and he upped and died on me 😭 He was so lush too.
And YOU ARE THE BEST 😘🥰🌿🌻♥️
@TerpyDragonfly oh and Celeste brought water quality, that’s important too. I give my rain water or filtered tap. I can’t be bothered to remember to fill humidity trays, but I do find that their humidity is great in their corner if I group them together with their friends 🫶
And YOU ARE THE BEST 😘🥰🌿🌻♥️
@TerpyDragonfly oh and Celeste brought water quality, that’s important too. I give my rain water or filtered tap. I can’t be bothered to remember to fill humidity trays, but I do find that their humidity is great in their corner if I group them together with their friends 🫶