From my Maranta cristata grizzle. I’ll try to make it germinate but I’m not sure if it will work ahah.
I wonder if it keeps the grizzle variety or it just becomes a wild bicolor pattern.
What do I need to keep a Calathea alive?
Humidifier ✅️
Soil mixture ✅️
/ Cocos/ Soil for indoor plants perlite is not allowed but should not
Water needs ✅️
Water as needed
1 finger completely in the ground
Cold feeling / no water
Wait 1 to 2 days
Misting / ⛔️
No!
Fog is at risk of mold/leaf burning because water droplets remain.
Self-watering ⛔️
Self-watering such as water droppers or self-watering pots is likely to
- Root rot
- Overwatering
Hello I’m concerned about this Maranta I purchased from an antique store that didn’t treat it very well. Does she look healthy? I’ve had her for 2-3 months now and she’s just now starting to move her leaves and formed a new one that hasn’t emerged as of about a month.
Bought a loupe to admire my plants up close. Instead, I unlocked a microscopic horror.
At first it was amazing: tiny leaf textures, beautiful patterns, a whole hidden world in miniature. Then I kept looking… and suddenly: “well well well… what do we have here?”
This time around... Spider mites 🕷️. Yaaay! 😒
My Crimson Green has been in quarantine for 2 weeks after we spotted webbing almost immediately after bringing her home from the nursery. Today was treatment #2 with insecticidal soap.
A good reminder to isolate plants when you bring them to your home, and that pests have a life cycle. If you want to get rid of them properly, you need to hit every stage: eggs, juveniles, adults… every last tiny freeloading goblin. Including this chubby little menace trying to feast on my beloved Carmela.
Don’t stop after the first treatment. Keep plants isolated and continue treatment for the full life cycle of the pest; sometimes 2 weeks, sometimes 4.
Seriously: inspect your leaves regularly as part of your routine. Check for:
• webbing
• stippling
• weird spots
• tiny moving dots
• leaf undersides
Some pests are obvious (mealybugs basically want to get caught), but others are microscopic little cowards until the infestation gets bad enough to notice with the naked eye.
This tiny jeweler’s loupe cost almost nothing and has built-in LEDs, which makes inspection incredibly easy.
Next step? A dissecting microscope. I want eye contact before the isopropyl alcohol treatment 😈.
My maranta is thriving! Since I purchased him in late February, he's given me about 10-15 new leaves and keeps pushing out new growth. He's right next to a humidifier and has a grow light over him for 12 hrs a day. 3 days ago, two of his lower and older leaves have turned yellow and are now crispy. He's also pushing out a root at the bottom and I'm assuming he's almost root bound. I have to check the roots at a later time since the soil is still a bit moist and it would be a bit messy to do so right now but I'd like to get a second opinion. He's currently in a 4in pot and I would be resizing him to a 6in if so.
To add some context, I'm also planning on leaving home for 10 weeks for a summer internship and if he needs to be repotted, I'd rather do it sooner than later. I have my partner looking after all 19 of my plants while I'm gone but I would ideally prefer to repot it beforehand so it can adjust to a larger pot before I leave :]
Been tracking her for a few days ever since I saw her first flower pop up (not that I don’t check daily), it finally opened today and noticed a few more. She’s been putting out leaves weekly from 3 or 4 growth points since I got her in November. I’d say she’s happy :)
Hi all! Just bought my first ever maranta, this Silver Band, from my local nursery and it was 50% off and I’m not sure why. The leaves do look pretty frail and droopy. I brought her home and repotted into a pot just slightly bigger and inspected the roots and they look fine. What should I do to help her? The soil was damp when purchased and I gave it another little drink after repotting.
Edit to add: pics were taken in the evening when the plant would be “praying” so to say, but I don’t notice a difference between daytime and nighttime, it looks like this all the time
Anyone knows what this is ?
2- 3 photo
Hello,
I came across this maranta at the hardware store. Never seen such a specimen. What kind of maranta is it? The pot says maranta leuconeura fascinator, but it looks nothing like it.
Hello! I bought a maranta fascinator at a plant centre a week ago and the soil was quite moist (not sure what type of soil it is but it’s darker and doesn’t seem as well-draining as the one I use for my other plants), the plant looks happy other than a brown spot on one of the leaves and one leave is a little crumpled and didn’t seem to grow properly (also side question should I remove these slightly imperfect leaves?)
The soil is less moist now but still moist, the plant seems happy and I didn’t want to repot straight away so it could get used to the area.
It’s in a conservatory with bright light (indirect from sunlight from where it’s sitting) and it’s pretty warm in there in the daytime, probably about 16-20 degrees Celsius
I don’t normally water my plants to soak the whole soil and the ones I have are happy with that but because this is my first maranta and I don’t want root rot, should it have dried out by now and should I repot it to what seems to be better draining soil? Or should I leave it until it tells me something? I know these are good at telling us what they need!
I just got this today at Lowe’s for $6.25. I was looking for a Rattlesnake Calathea but found this instead. It’s beautiful but I don’t know anything more than it’s a maranta. Thank you and Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms.
Hey all. I’d like a little guidance. I finally have a successful maranta. It’s my 4th lol. I’m growing in pon and it’s been thriving. I have like 7 new flowers and I haven’t even started fertilizing yet. Still on my first reservoir!!
She’s starting to spread out a bit. But the problem is that the longest branch outs are the stems with the flowers. Like the ones with the best and most amts of nodes are the flowers. So what should I do? Should I wait for the blooming season to be over? Or do those stems make them a really great candidate for propogation? I don’t want to hurt the plant. I’ve tried in the past to water prop but had tons of issues getting roots or root rotting.
I put her in front of a big south facing window but out of the sun‘s reach. The three babies were cut off and the mother recovered after that. Today I was going to put her into a plastic bag for more humidity as one user suggested but I don’t think that is needed anymore.
I also found an old pic of her from three months ago when I brought multiple plants home with me to repot. She looked sooooo good and I am now kinda sad even though I am still happy the she survived at all.
I am not sure anymore if overwatering was really my plant's problem.
The mother plant curled up today after I put the whole thing into dry substrate yesterday so I gave her water a few hours ago. The last time I overwatered her when the mother was still a baby with only four leaves, she didn’t curl up at all. I didn’t give her water for over a week then and she didn’t care. My suspicion is that sunburn could have been the problem after all. I will need to monitor the way the sun shines on my desk before I put her back there. As I mentioned in yesterday‘s post the office window blinds now work a different schedule on the weekends and seem to be up the whole day.
The three babies are probably dead at this point but the leaves of the mother plant already feel less wilted and some have uncurled a bit. I still have hope for the new baby plant though. The tip is peaking out of the soil and it looks dark green and is crispy not mushy. You can see the new baby plant a little in the last picture.