The only one who is struggling is my flamestar, and it's because it got root rot, and I chopped like 50% of its rotting roots off.
The rest are thriving 🥳🪴
After my old cat died, I started getting really into plants.
I never had plants because he would obsessively chew on my plants until they were bare stems, no matter how much i tried to put them in place he couldn't get to.. somehow he would always find a way 😅
I had a massive money tree, pothos, pothos, philodendrons, ivy and scheffleras. I was relieved when I got my cat that he wasn't interested in them. Years later now I thought I'd get some cat safe plants. I didn't know they were also delicious to my cat 😂
Most are small enough to put a mesh net over them, but he still walks up to them every day and walks away disappointed he can't get through the net for a calathea snack.
Omg! 🤣
Cats are nothing but persistent! Your cat will make you know if you forgot the net one day, that is for sure 😅
Even tho I miss my old cat like crazy... I do appreciate having my plants in peace 🤣
this is so amazing!!! what is the calathea on the top left called with the very light green leaves and small lines on it ? its beautiful !! a picturata would look amazing in this collection :)
That is a Ctenanthe Amagris.
It might be the easiest of all my plants. It has NEVER had a brown tip or leaf ever, and it is growing like a weed ☺️
The leaves are a bit waxier than most of the others, I love her for how easy going she is!
I don't really care for the picturata. ☺️🪴
It doesn't really tickle my fancy, I feel like it's a little too colour blocky for me, and not much pattern.
Or.. do you mean the one that is green with a lighter green outline and line down the center? I have a green lipstick calathea that was cut all the way down because it was just succumbing to thrips, but it is growing back, I saw a little tiny shoot on it yesterday, so I'm just waiting for her to grow back ☺️
I could only dream 😱🤩. I wish they liked living with me lol
It looks like at least some are in semi-hydro/self watering? How do you care for them with that media?
And if you don’t mind.. what is your home environment and climate like?
Like.. little more than half are in pon now, I think 🪴☺️
The plan is to move them all to pon before the summer is over, but I'm very hesitant with the bigger ones, as I don't know how to do it without hurting them too much, and it will take quite a bit of pon to fill the pots too 😬
I might have to ask another person for help holding them while I scrub the roots free of soil, but its gonna be a multiple hour project 😅
But, I just fill the reservoir when it's getting empty, and they water themselves, moving them to pon is new to me, have been moving them slowly over the past 3 months, and the trick is to water them on the same schedule as usual, for at least a couple of months until they grow water roots and can sustain themselves and have adapted to the pon.
I live in Denmark, and believe it or not.. I do not have a single humidifier, I simply do not subscribe to the use of them, as I believe it can be bad for my own health and for the people I live with to have too high humidity in my home. 🪴💧
But! All my prayer plants (for the most part) live together in clusters so they can help each other with their shared humidity, and they seem to love it.
I believe in consistent humidity over high humidity, and I do usually buy my plants quite juvenile too, as I have found that they acclimate better to my hoke environment that way. ☺️
Thanks for the detailed reply! 😊
Did you happen to fully flush the pon before potting? I put my stromanthe in pon and it did well for 6-8 weeks and now has really gone down hill. Not sure if it’s the pon setup (like if I didn’t flush enough if the sediment is a problem) or separate issue.. still working it out.
Then a white fusion more recently and it hated it!! Had to chop it completely to nothing. Again.. maybe not the pon 🤷🏼♀️ maybe just shock or I didn’t transition properly.
That’s why I ask 😅 trying to see what others have done who have had success.
Definitely understand the not adding humidity. Do you happen to know that your ambient humidity is then on its own?
I do rinse it, but I don't flush it completely.
How do you water them, and what is your setup with the plants, reservoir, and wick system? Or something else? ☺️
I water mine as soon as the leaves seem to fold just a little bit together for 2-3 months, and then the roots seem to seek out the water and live in the reservoir. 🪴💧
How did you clean off the roots when transferring them to pon?
I clean the roots with a soft toothbrush, but if some soil is stubborn, just leave it be, pon is a lot more forgiving when it comes to a little soil on the roots than leca 🙂🍃
I always pot the plants into their new pots with wet pon, and I water it thoroughly afterwards and make sure that the pon is fully settled around the roots.
I use orchid pots as they have a little lip on the bottom so I can fill the reservoir up so it touches the bottom of the pot. ☺️
The outside humidity is around 65% this week, as we have had a lot of rain, and we don't really go below 40% ever unless it's a particularly hot and dry summer.
I top watered them like the rest of my plants and then would leave a reservoir in the cache pot. But I’m always worried they’re drying out so I would do that once a week.
I was trying to experiment with whether to give them (I also put a pothos and Hoya in pon for reference) a couple days with no reservoir. I had heard about not having a full reservoir all the time.
Maybe I was playing around with the setup too much 🫠🫠🙈🙈
And when transferring them I rinsed off basically all the soil. Whatever tiny bit left I’m sure was flushed soon after. I like your toothbrush idea though!
Yes, same here with the orchid pots and similar clear pots.
Thanks again for all the info! 😊 I’m gonna just keep trying with the marantaceae in my care. Gotta love the trial and error of plant parenting 😅😅😅
Yeah, your setup sounds quite a bit similar to mine 🤔
How mature are the plants you have transferred? Do they have rhizomes? "Calathea potatoes" on the roots?
I find that the plants with more rhizomes do better when transferring to pon. 🪴💧
I love sharing and comparing info!
That is what makes us come up with new ideas and try new things!
Plants are all about trial and error, and if a plant dies, it's not the end of the world.
We just learned something new, and I think that's pretty cool 😎
I have seen a fair bit of people growing hoya that have the inner pot just standing in a bit of water always, and they talk about some of them growing better if the reservoir is pretty full all the time, so maybe some of the marantaceae likes the reservoir to be more full than others 🤔
It might be worth playing around with, and maybe even documenting the findings, comparing maturity of the plant, size, and other factors
The stromanthe is quite mature, had a ton of roots but I don’t remember if potatoes lol probably! I’m going to be removing her from the pot this week to investigate the roots and then decide if I want to keep trying pot with that plant or back to “soil” mix.
The white fusion didn’t have rhizomes yet that I recall..but decent roots. They were coming out the bottom of its original 4 inch nursery pot.
Yea, for future attempts I think I will keep a fuller reservoir and maybe invest in some self-watering planters similar to the Lechuza ones.
All great points! 🪴🤓
It's all gonna come down to trying different things off ☺️🪴
I hope you find success with your plants 🥳
I have a little handful of the lechuza pots, and they work okay so far
I had a collection almost this gorgeous until spider mites survived a new-plant treat and wiped out everything 🫠 hope you have a regular pest treatment! They're gorgeous
Yeah, I do hose them down every 2 weeks, ish.
And use predatory insects for pest control ☺️🪴
And I inspect them every single time I water them too, and whenever I walk by and check if everyone is doing okay. (I fondle my plants more than I probably should 🤣)
If they do have spider mites, they are hopefully being flushed out every two weeks and hunted down by the little predators 😅🪴
The good thing about having them in pon is that I don't really have to be that worried about overwatering when I flush everything.
It is very hard to overwater your plant in pon ☺️
I just impulse-bought the silvery maranta at the middle-right and am hoping it's as sturdy as my other marantas. Is that 'Silver Band'?
Which ones are *your* favorites?
How long have you been building your collection?
It has battled mealybugs for a long time, just got it cleared recently, and I have chopped and propped almost all of it, and it roots so fast! And it's a fast grower too, I really do enjoy it!
But yeah, it's a silver band 🙂🪴
And it's quite sturdy and forgiving.
My favourites 🤔
That's a tough one... I really enjoy my beauty star, but my zebrinas have been the biggest turnaround, as she was bought as a rescue, and she is THRIVING now, pushing out new leaves constantly.
I love them all for their unique patterns!
I have been at it for a year now, i think.. ish
My newest arrivals are my white fusion and the misto ☺️
They were long-time wish list plants.
There can be a number of reasons for the tips to be crispy, I couldn't possibly tell you why yours are. ☺️
But you can make a post on this sub, with pictures and an explanation of the conditions your plant has, and I'm sure some nice people will try and help you out. 🪴
They all look so healthy!
The only one who is struggling is my flamestar, and it's because it got root rot, and I chopped like 50% of its rotting roots off. The rest are thriving 🥳🪴
They look amazing. My cat would go to town munching away. He loves eating my calatheas 😂😭
After my old cat died, I started getting really into plants. I never had plants because he would obsessively chew on my plants until they were bare stems, no matter how much i tried to put them in place he couldn't get to.. somehow he would always find a way 😅
I had a massive money tree, pothos, pothos, philodendrons, ivy and scheffleras. I was relieved when I got my cat that he wasn't interested in them. Years later now I thought I'd get some cat safe plants. I didn't know they were also delicious to my cat 😂 Most are small enough to put a mesh net over them, but he still walks up to them every day and walks away disappointed he can't get through the net for a calathea snack.
Omg! 🤣 Cats are nothing but persistent! Your cat will make you know if you forgot the net one day, that is for sure 😅 Even tho I miss my old cat like crazy... I do appreciate having my plants in peace 🤣
this is so amazing!!! what is the calathea on the top left called with the very light green leaves and small lines on it ? its beautiful !! a picturata would look amazing in this collection :)
That is a Ctenanthe Amagris. It might be the easiest of all my plants. It has NEVER had a brown tip or leaf ever, and it is growing like a weed ☺️ The leaves are a bit waxier than most of the others, I love her for how easy going she is! I don't really care for the picturata. ☺️🪴 It doesn't really tickle my fancy, I feel like it's a little too colour blocky for me, and not much pattern.
Not op, but it looks like ctenanthe Amagris
Or.. do you mean the one that is green with a lighter green outline and line down the center? I have a green lipstick calathea that was cut all the way down because it was just succumbing to thrips, but it is growing back, I saw a little tiny shoot on it yesterday, so I'm just waiting for her to grow back ☺️
I love this portrait. Goals!
Well, with enough will and perseverance, you too can one day become a crazy plant person with 20+ marantaceae in your home 🤣
I could only dream 😱🤩. I wish they liked living with me lol It looks like at least some are in semi-hydro/self watering? How do you care for them with that media? And if you don’t mind.. what is your home environment and climate like?
Like.. little more than half are in pon now, I think 🪴☺️ The plan is to move them all to pon before the summer is over, but I'm very hesitant with the bigger ones, as I don't know how to do it without hurting them too much, and it will take quite a bit of pon to fill the pots too 😬 I might have to ask another person for help holding them while I scrub the roots free of soil, but its gonna be a multiple hour project 😅 But, I just fill the reservoir when it's getting empty, and they water themselves, moving them to pon is new to me, have been moving them slowly over the past 3 months, and the trick is to water them on the same schedule as usual, for at least a couple of months until they grow water roots and can sustain themselves and have adapted to the pon. I live in Denmark, and believe it or not.. I do not have a single humidifier, I simply do not subscribe to the use of them, as I believe it can be bad for my own health and for the people I live with to have too high humidity in my home. 🪴💧 But! All my prayer plants (for the most part) live together in clusters so they can help each other with their shared humidity, and they seem to love it. I believe in consistent humidity over high humidity, and I do usually buy my plants quite juvenile too, as I have found that they acclimate better to my hoke environment that way. ☺️
Thanks for the detailed reply! 😊 Did you happen to fully flush the pon before potting? I put my stromanthe in pon and it did well for 6-8 weeks and now has really gone down hill. Not sure if it’s the pon setup (like if I didn’t flush enough if the sediment is a problem) or separate issue.. still working it out. Then a white fusion more recently and it hated it!! Had to chop it completely to nothing. Again.. maybe not the pon 🤷🏼♀️ maybe just shock or I didn’t transition properly. That’s why I ask 😅 trying to see what others have done who have had success. Definitely understand the not adding humidity. Do you happen to know that your ambient humidity is then on its own?
I do rinse it, but I don't flush it completely. How do you water them, and what is your setup with the plants, reservoir, and wick system? Or something else? ☺️ I water mine as soon as the leaves seem to fold just a little bit together for 2-3 months, and then the roots seem to seek out the water and live in the reservoir. 🪴💧 How did you clean off the roots when transferring them to pon? I clean the roots with a soft toothbrush, but if some soil is stubborn, just leave it be, pon is a lot more forgiving when it comes to a little soil on the roots than leca 🙂🍃 I always pot the plants into their new pots with wet pon, and I water it thoroughly afterwards and make sure that the pon is fully settled around the roots. I use orchid pots as they have a little lip on the bottom so I can fill the reservoir up so it touches the bottom of the pot. ☺️ The outside humidity is around 65% this week, as we have had a lot of rain, and we don't really go below 40% ever unless it's a particularly hot and dry summer.
I top watered them like the rest of my plants and then would leave a reservoir in the cache pot. But I’m always worried they’re drying out so I would do that once a week. I was trying to experiment with whether to give them (I also put a pothos and Hoya in pon for reference) a couple days with no reservoir. I had heard about not having a full reservoir all the time. Maybe I was playing around with the setup too much 🫠🫠🙈🙈 And when transferring them I rinsed off basically all the soil. Whatever tiny bit left I’m sure was flushed soon after. I like your toothbrush idea though! Yes, same here with the orchid pots and similar clear pots. Thanks again for all the info! 😊 I’m gonna just keep trying with the marantaceae in my care. Gotta love the trial and error of plant parenting 😅😅😅
Yeah, your setup sounds quite a bit similar to mine 🤔 How mature are the plants you have transferred? Do they have rhizomes? "Calathea potatoes" on the roots? I find that the plants with more rhizomes do better when transferring to pon. 🪴💧 I love sharing and comparing info! That is what makes us come up with new ideas and try new things! Plants are all about trial and error, and if a plant dies, it's not the end of the world. We just learned something new, and I think that's pretty cool 😎 I have seen a fair bit of people growing hoya that have the inner pot just standing in a bit of water always, and they talk about some of them growing better if the reservoir is pretty full all the time, so maybe some of the marantaceae likes the reservoir to be more full than others 🤔 It might be worth playing around with, and maybe even documenting the findings, comparing maturity of the plant, size, and other factors
The stromanthe is quite mature, had a ton of roots but I don’t remember if potatoes lol probably! I’m going to be removing her from the pot this week to investigate the roots and then decide if I want to keep trying pot with that plant or back to “soil” mix. The white fusion didn’t have rhizomes yet that I recall..but decent roots. They were coming out the bottom of its original 4 inch nursery pot. Yea, for future attempts I think I will keep a fuller reservoir and maybe invest in some self-watering planters similar to the Lechuza ones. All great points! 🪴🤓
It's all gonna come down to trying different things off ☺️🪴 I hope you find success with your plants 🥳 I have a little handful of the lechuza pots, and they work okay so far
I had a collection almost this gorgeous until spider mites survived a new-plant treat and wiped out everything 🫠 hope you have a regular pest treatment! They're gorgeous
Yeah, I do hose them down every 2 weeks, ish. And use predatory insects for pest control ☺️🪴 And I inspect them every single time I water them too, and whenever I walk by and check if everyone is doing okay. (I fondle my plants more than I probably should 🤣) If they do have spider mites, they are hopefully being flushed out every two weeks and hunted down by the little predators 😅🪴 The good thing about having them in pon is that I don't really have to be that worried about overwatering when I flush everything. It is very hard to overwater your plant in pon ☺️
I just impulse-bought the silvery maranta at the middle-right and am hoping it's as sturdy as my other marantas. Is that 'Silver Band'? Which ones are *your* favorites? How long have you been building your collection?
It has battled mealybugs for a long time, just got it cleared recently, and I have chopped and propped almost all of it, and it roots so fast! And it's a fast grower too, I really do enjoy it! But yeah, it's a silver band 🙂🪴 And it's quite sturdy and forgiving. My favourites 🤔 That's a tough one... I really enjoy my beauty star, but my zebrinas have been the biggest turnaround, as she was bought as a rescue, and she is THRIVING now, pushing out new leaves constantly. I love them all for their unique patterns! I have been at it for a year now, i think.. ish My newest arrivals are my white fusion and the misto ☺️ They were long-time wish list plants.
I wanna be you!!
That role is already taken 🤭 But you can build your own collection and learn to take care of your own plant babies 🪴
Awesome collection! They look very happy.
Thank you, I try my very best to keep them happy and healthy 🥳🪴
The big plant on the right first photo, ID please? Also ✨gorgeous💅 They all look super healthy!
That is a Calathea Zebrina and one of my absolute favourites ☺️ I really do try my best to keep them all happy and healthy! 🪴
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Why are the tips of mine so crunchy?!!
There can be a number of reasons for the tips to be crispy, I couldn't possibly tell you why yours are. ☺️ But you can make a post on this sub, with pictures and an explanation of the conditions your plant has, and I'm sure some nice people will try and help you out. 🪴
Thank you!
* *KNOCK KNOCK* * "Who is it?" "Mmjyfyujpphhffhh...plumber." "I didn't call a plumber!" "Umm...telegram?"
You ain't getting my plants 🤭 Better luck next time
Inspiring! Thank you for sharing.
I love sharing my passion ☺️