For reference!! Group A (Easy/For beginners): - C. medallion - C. rufibarba - C. makoyana - C. picturata crimson - C. dottie - C. illustris - C. cora Group B (Intermediate): - C. margarita - C. concina freddie - C. musaica - C. rosy - C. sanderiana ornata - C. princess jessie - C. halo - C. picturata argentea - C. warscewiczii Group C (Advanced): - C. zebrina - C. white tiger - C. fusion white - C. whitestar - C. fucata - C. misto Group X (Unknown): - C. vandenheckei (Group B?) - C. ecuadoriana (Group A?) - C. louisae (Group C?)
I bought a Fucata on accident when searching for an Orbifolia. I keep her a ft away from a North window next to my humidifier surrounded by ferns and she is giving me so much love. While all my other calatheas are hating me. She's my most beautiful one. I bought a tiny burle marx baby with two leaves and it had been struggling. I finally gave up on it and put the root node with no leaves left into a mossy terrarium and now it has three leaves.
So I finally know what type of calathea I have! Picturata argentea! I bought it because I thought the leaves were pretty and I had no idea how fickle calathea are! After a few months of frustrating research and almost killing him a few times he is now happy in my bathroom with bright indirect light, a pebble tray of filtered water, weekly soil moisture checks, watering with filtered water and very diluted fertilizer, and increased humidity in that room. Yeah. Somehow each new leaf is so much more rewarding when you have to work that hard for it!
I fell in love with this calathea when I first saw it and didnt know it's a Zebrina! I gave solely all my love, care and humidity yet it was still droopy and dying so I gave up and placed it outside together with my other plants. The next morning I was shocked it grew healthy again and even water it w/ tap water together with my other plants! My zebrina drove me crazy yet i still adore it so much ❤️
Thank you for this video! It’s fun to see so many different types. It’s also reassuring to hear that even experienced owners can have issues with these divas! I have 5 calatheas and they’re mostly happy but I definitely don’t have the humidity high enough for them.
The first plant that i have bought was calathea maui, i just love her ♡ i didnt know anything about plants but she is still very healthy and still growing ♡
Hola desde Panamá🇵🇦.. No entiendo tu idioma ..pero si pude entender el idioma universal de la belleza de las plantas.. Felicitaciones por tan hermosa colección de plantas.. Me encantó👍
For anyone who doesn't know. Essential oils are photo-toxic. So when a plant is introduced to sunlight while it has Essential oils such as neem oil. It causes chemical burns. This is true for people as well. Thats why it's so important to dilute it.
Can you please do a new video on what different calathea leaf conditions are telling you. For example, new leaf growth coming in smaller and lower down to the base of the plant, lower leaves yellowing, curling and dying off, (I'm noticing this after watering, not sure if it's a coincedence) when it's normal old leaf loss and when it's a watering issue. New leaves coming in with see through edges which eventually crisp. Not producing new leaves at all or rarely. As you can tell i am having several issues with all my calathea! There's not a great deal of info out there on these issues so i thought you might be able to help! Thank you
I love these plants! Great video!! I have 5 calathea plants. ... I found that they hate to dry out. ... so I bought those self watering bulbs. ... on my larger medallion I have a glass bulb and on the smaller one some smaller bulbs that are platic i found on amazon. You xare right about humidity! One more thing.... my first one i forgot to water it died....but I read somewhere it will grow back from its rhizomes and it has grown 2 new stems. ...thanks for the video
I'm suprised that you don't have an Orbifolia, your plants are absolutely beautifullll! Ive had a small Orbifolia and quite a few different calatheas for just over a year and they're definitely one of my favorites for sure!
I am really afraid of Orbifolias! For some reason, I am convinced I won't be able to keep it alive. But I am glad yours is doing well. 😊 They really are beautiful!
@@AddyBeez I’ve found the single best way to keep one alive is to keep it close to a humidifier, and out of the sun. In nature they thrive underneath tree canopies, and receive VERY little sunlight, mine has been so happy!
@@isaacspeyer1129расплывчато. Калатеям нужно немного Lux (освещенности), но длительное время освещения. Поставить их в совсем малоосвещеное место плохая идея- они не смогут полноценно развиваться. Для справки (будет полезно). Калатеям нужно ~ 4500-8000lux [~80- 140 umol] это поможет подобрать лампу и правильно её расположить
Please do a care video on the White Star. I just can’t figure out how to keep it happy. I give it distilled water and keep it at 60% humidity and the new leaves unfurl with brown tips or develop crisps shortly after. What am I doing wrong? 🥺
Yaiks! Just saw this after I just bought my first Calatheas... Zebrina, White Tiger and Ornata... 😳😳😳 just repotted one of my Zebrina yesterday when I saw your video yesterday about the yellow edges. Binge watching your videos and thanks for all the infos about them. ♥️
Oh my Addy!!! That’s me, well one of many I guess who recently asked this and you did it! Wow thanks for showing this to us. Must be hard to rank and judge them and have something specific to say. Goes to show you pay attention really well to each and single one of these beauties! Thank you!!!!!!! Supporting from Japan
Yes! And thank you so much for the recommendation--I'm glad that conditions permitted me to get them all together for the video. 😊 Each one seems to have a lesson to teach me, that's for sure! Thanks for the support, so appreciated!
Completely the opposite way round from me! With houseplants, I think, the most important factor is the nature of 'house'. See - you seem to be in a 'new build' so you don't have the damp and dingy thing that I have with my three hundred year old stone cottage. People can talk about window direction, window distance, latitude and precise humidity needs but it comes down to some plants like old houses and some plants like new houses. Just about every video I see, online, about houseplants is from somebody who is raising them in a recently built house. All of that advice, I now realise, I have to put through my own algorithm. Apart from using room temperature collected rain water - that's pretty much a good thing across the board. My Calatheas all seem to hate being top watered, too, so I've got all mine in self watering pots with chutes down to the reservoir and water level indicators. I try to keep the indicator levels at about half full.
Love this! Became a calathea fan a few months now and can't stop! Looking for the difficult to find ecuadorian calathea! next! Cannot find! Ty for great video!
Absolutely beautiful.. 😍 Calathea are my absolute favorite.. Nothing can beat them when it comes to beauty and foliage.. Though they are little finicky and they don't love me that much.. 🙃😁 But I'm learning gradually how to keep them happy.. Thanks for sharing.. It helps..
I love Calatheas too!! Recently got the rattle snake ones and I think they are likely to be group A. However I live in a tropical country - Singapore so I guess that contributes to the easier maintenance here for most of the calatheas.
Surprisingly, my rufibarba is one of my most problematic. I was having problems with my warcewitzi over the winter but I just cut it down to the soil level, placed it in a self watering Lechuza pot and substrate and it has grown quite a few new great leaves. The beautiful louisae now has 3 leaves. I chopped off all the leaves except one and totally just watered it and waited for it to die. Apparently, she wants to live! You have a great collection! My easiest Calathea is the C. lancifolia. It has not given me any humidity issues and is quite beautiful!
Oh--this is good to know! 😊 I need to figure something out--I am pretty sure the roots are damaged on mine. It put out a new rhizome--or I should say that it put out new growth on a rhizome that seemed to recover but the leaves all show root damage. A few people having been mentioning how well calathea do in Leca and I am trying to work up the nerve to try it/research enough to know how to get started. I am going to have to look more into Lechuza pots, too, thanks for the tip. Some of the species that get water stressed easily may do better in one!
I always enjoy seeing what calatheas that other people have....thank you for sharing your collection. The only problem that I have had is with my white fusion....I had it about 8 ft.away from the window, it looked all droopy. I took the risk and moved it to about 3ft. from the window and it seems to love it. I thought that the white leaves would burn, so far so good. If you want those 3 calatheas to drop their law suit....you might want to consider getting a table size water fountain and only use distilled water in it. My fountain was only 27.00 from Amazon.
I have a mosaica (group b). Bought it on a whim. It’s doing great. I don’t do a thing to it. I have found that if a plant likes it’s spot - it will do well. If it doesn’t like its home - you will have problems from day 1.
People in my locality says I would regret buying calathea coz it's won't last till Christmas time, my calathea's are still doing good so far and I'm looking forward to it😀. I would like to know what soil mix or potting mix you use for your calatheas.
Thank you for your helpful classification system- I think I own four in Group B. What humidity levels were you aiming for with your calathea collection? And also what has been your experience of caring for them over winter- did you have grow lights to supplement the shorter daylight. Thanks!
Great video! I'd love to see an update. I bought an orbifolia as my first calathea, and one of my first tropical, not knowing how much or a diva they were. It's alive but with crispy leaves when there was humidity stress and when I used tap water.
For me here in Seattle, makoyana is hands-down the most bulletproof, as is setosa. The big round leaved ones like ‘Medallion’ and illustris seem much more prone to browning edges. They all hate getting too cold but makoyana responded only by downward-pointing leaves, and came right out of it when the weather warmed. Mine now lives 8 feet away from a south-facing window, and is a complete beast. Curling leaves do seem to happen with root damage, either from drying or overwatering. The ones that break the most hearts (here) seem to be any of the velvety leaved ones, and also the pink-lined ones (ornata, ornata sanderiana). And of course $&#%€¥ ‘Fusion White’. 🤣 No mention of orbifolia, but people here seem to have good success with it as long as they are good on the watering. I recommend they treat them like some of the more finicky ferns in that respect - consistent, “little at a time” watering to maintain a constantly moist but not wet soil. Not so into bottom watering as it tends to lead to a wet bottom layer before the upper layers can get moistened.
Wow! Your collection is gorgeous!! I'll definitely keep this video as a reference. I can't keep up w/ their humidity requirements, especially in the winter when my prayer plant really took a beating. My little Dottie is doing fine right now out of it's terrarium, but come fal,l it's going back in there. It makes you wonder how they manage to survive in the wild - unless their natural habitat is a swamp, lol!
Such a good point! Once I learned that some of them live in actual cloud forests (montane environments)-- well. Not exactly easy to replicate in my area. I'm so glad that your Dottie is doing well. 😊 Oh! My Aglaonema is putting out a new leaf, or trying to, but I do think I got the watering wrong because its lowest leaf is definitely going to turn yellow. Do you think a terracotta pot might be better for it or would that dry it out too fast? The yellowing could be from acclimation/shipping stress but I'm not sure.
@@AddyBeez After one died from root rot, I propagated a stem in water and recently transitioned it to soil. It's doing great, so I'm definitely moving it to terracotta as soon as those roots are firmly established in the nursery pot. I'm hoping it will lower the chance of it getting rot again. That plant was never healthy and it hung on for a year before it's rapid decline, so at least they are hearty!
Your calathea collection is amazing and beautiful. I give up on calatheas after killing a dottie and struggling keeping the others I own alive. I will not buy another. I love them but they don't love me.
I understand--there are plants that I like but can't keep in my house for one reason or another. There are calathea I can't keep, too. Pretty sure I will not be getting any more Fucatas--I imagine it is pretty mad at me about now.
Maybe i should try the orbifolia. I’ve literally killed 3-4 medallions. I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. The peacock is in the same room & is literally thriving so much!😩
I'm new and really enjoyed your format, explanations, and labeling. Beautiful plants, appreciate the names but hard to read on light pink background for a such a short glimpse.
I think I am pretty lucky to live in a tropical country (Indonesia).. As long as calathea are placed in bright indirect light & close to other plants, they are pretty happy. We have no problem with humidity and I noticed calathea just love humid place & the soil must also humid too.. I have black dottie, pink cynthia & fasciata.. I'd love to have more but the prices are so expensive here 😂
I have a question! What do you use to maintain pest-free calatheas? Does neem+soap solution work for you, no adverse effects on the plants?:)) thanks!!!
I've had a few of those some easier some advanced (medallion, picturata crimson, dottie and zebrina) but all of them died. My musaica is around 6 years old. And even though we had our ups and downs it outlived all of them and it's doing pretty good. Currently it is sprouting 7 new leaves and I'm soo proud of it! (It's one of the first plants that I ever purchased)
Great vid, you're my go - to channel for calathea care! After a year long battle with recurrent spidermites on my Whitestar, I just gave up and she is now buried in my compost tip! I only have one calathea left and that's a Fusion White. Got it as a 5 leaf plantlet about a year ago and it's thriving! Still a small plant but about three times the size it was. 👍 I'd love a warsceweckii but they are very hard to find for me.
Oh, I understand. Spider mites can just decimate a plant so quickly. I'm glad that your Fusion White is doing well! 😊 Impressive growth!! Mine just seems to replace its leaves without growing bigger though maybe this year. Maybe. I feel like some calatheas are just impossible to get where I am--or, it will at least take a couple of years for them to get on market. The Warscewiczii is honestly so lovely and I have treated it so poorly. Had I done a better job from the beginning, it would look quite different now.
@@AddyBeez you won't believe it but I found an absolute beauty of a warscewiczii at IKEA today! 6" pot with three huge plants in it, 45cm tall (I think that's about 18") for 10 euros!!! (12$US) Happy dance time, I tell you! 😁 Not a blemish on it but, as usual, it's in quarantine on my dining room table. I've never brought pests home on an IKEA plant but better safe than sorry! So happy 😊
How do you use your humidifier ? how long do you run it ? how often do you run it ? Do you use it every day for two hours or . . . . Please share , Thank you
The results are worth the efforts and very satisfying. I wanted to grow these for a long time but my climate would not allow it. Do you favour the use of a humidifier or an evaporative cooler? Does a humidifier create mold in your room?
Not sure about anyone else, but depending on how warm your room stays and the type of calathea you could get away with misting it two or three times a day instead of using a humidifier. That's what I do, and my white fusion is super super happy.
I used to think i know pretty much all calatheas.... Until UA-cam recommended me your video !! 😅 Misto has been the easiest calathea for me till now, don't know how though ! And that louisae is just amazing 😍.... Would love to know where and how one can get it ?
Beautiful collection! The only calathea I have is a medallion and prior to moving to my current home it was doing fine (popped a lot of new pretty leaves in janurary!). But now that I have a new space it having trouble adjusting and I am so sad. The humidity is in the 40% and being I only have one calathea I wasn’t keen on bringing out my humidifier again but I think I might have to. Calathea are so beautiful but you do have to commit more to it then other plants
Thank you and agreed! 😊 Honestly, I've wondered if I like calathea so much because I know they'll take up the time that I would have spent killing my other plants with over watering.
I am now at a point where before buying new calatheas, I wonder which category they belong :P Added new to my collection and while I was at the plant store, I kept rewatching this :)
You know--I should update this in a year to see if I still feel the same. It's so hard to know if I'm being objective or not! And congrats on your new calathea! 😊
Im so jealous you were able to snatch a GORGEOUS makoyana at lowes. I got mine at a nursery and it's a little baby right now but I'm excited for it to get thiccc 😋
Excellent video! Calatheas have become my favourite, and all the information you provided will be super helpful. Would you say the water in a humidifier needs to be distilled too?
Humidifiers, where I am, come with a warning to use distilled or other types of filtered (for example: demineralized) water because the process of releasing the vapor into the air can also release minerals from water into the air, among other concerns. However, I am certainly not an expert! But I do follow the EPA's recommendation to use distilled water to be safe. You can find a bit about it here: www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-08/documents/humidifier_factsheet.pdf
Hi new to your plant video really enjoy looking at your plant I appreciate you giving advice on how to take care of them I had one of them recently it's looks like the peacock feathers it started to dry up from the leaves and eventually die but I have to get another one so happy planting
Somehow for me the hardest ones are makoya and lancifolia, and orbifolia and stromanthe triostar feel perfect! They are all baby sized though. Just bought a white star in a normal size, let’s see how it goes..
I wish my medallion looked as nice as yours! I bought mine over the summer - It looked great but quickly declined when it became infected with spider mites. I’ve tried everything but it hasn’t improved. Soon, it’ll have no leaves left. Not sure what else to do ☹️ How do you care for your rescue calatheas?
.. I mist all my Calatheas (all 22) every day using boiled, cooled, filtered tap water and they are as happy as can be.. I also use the same for watering (for all 120 plants).. Only not my warscewiczii as the leafs are sensitive to water, but, she has a peppletray ☺️.. They love to be outside when raining (on my garden table under a huge parasol) and the humidity is sky-high.. My leopardina is blooming for the 3rd time this year, 3 yellow flowers every time.. Guess I must be doing something right 🙄.. All my Calatheas are growing like crazy 😳 and so far, I haven't had not even the smallest issue with any of them..
Wow ive never seen some of these gorgeous plants.. I think i have to wait till i get a humidifier. Where i live its anywhere from 6% to 20% humidity.. But these are all beautiful
I am really taken by their foliage. They remind me of one of my favorite outdoor plants that doesn't do well in my area (hostas), so it is a pleasure getting to have them indoors. 😊
Well thought out video!! This was a excellent depiction of Calathea’s! I’m trying to nurse my Fasciata back to life. It appears to have white spots on several leaves.
Funny. I own 8 calatheas. None have had spider mites but the picturata. I ended up treating it, cutting leaves and eventually calling it a day and getting rid of it.
I like to know please where you are ordering your Calathea? I went to Lowe and Home Depot I only found 2 kinds. You had beautiful Calatheas. Thx you for sharing your Videos.
Thanks for this video. I would agree with zebrina and white fusion being in the advance category. I wish I knew that before buying them. I am a new plant mom and to have those 2 as a new plant owner was quite challenging. I use distilled water, humidifier and they still didn’t do well. I think they ended up suffering water stress (overwatering). I didn’t even water it frequently, but I think when I watered it, I used too much water. They need the perfect amount of water. Not too much, not too little, just right. Like Goldie locks and the 3 bears 😅😂
That is a perfect description! 😊 The care is tricky, especially because it's hard to know what they were used to at the nursery. Some seem to be easy to care for and others--well. Not so much!
It is tricky getting that perfect balance of water (and I also find they ironically like a lot of aeration as well. I've switched all my calatheas to self-watering and it's made both me and them a lot happier.
I just baught a Rosie at Lows and i was able to diagnose its leaves with hard water damage. Wish me luck in its rehoming process. No more tap water for Rosie. What im most concerned about now is if I need to repot it to start fresh with distilled water.
I have repotted immediately in the past but have since held off to give the plant a chance to acclimate to its new environment (so as long as there is nothing wrong with the soil). Starting with a distilled water now that it is in your home will help flush the soil and in my experience, it has helped to mitigate the need to repot right away. Good luck with your new Rosie! :)
OMG I saw your Sansevieria collection! So impressive!!! I have two and lets just say that 50% of my Sansevierias don't like me. We can live vicariously through each other! 😂
Beautiful Calatheas. May I ask where are you getting all of the Calatheas from? I have never even heard of some of them. Great video, new subscriber here.
Thanks! 😊 I source a lot from sellers on Etsy.com--you can find some rare ones throughout the year. I also buy from local sellers when I can and also from sites like planterina.com.
How big are your pots? Right now I have a calathea peacock plant with a 8 inch wide and 6 inch tall pot... Is it acceptable or should I change my pot? And thank you soooo much for sharing, very informative😊
My Zebrina has been such a trooper. It was one of my earliest plants. It got spider mites and I didn’t know what to do so I just put it outside in the dry Southern California heat that goes down to 20% humidity. I give it filtered but not distilled water. Does it have crispy tips? Yes, but not bad at all. 😃
You say humidity stress, but you have a humidifier. Are you around 50-60 %? And those need more humidity than that? My favourite is the Mokoyana, I love mine. It's just easy, looks like a painter made it, perfect leaves and I love the back and forth movement it makes every day.
Yes, a lot of the humidity stress came from spending time in lower humidity levels before being in an area with the humidifier. I would say very few need higher humidity than 50-60%, most do well with that, but once the damage is there, it is a matter of waiting for it to grow out.
Hello Addy! Enjoyed the video and information - loved the Rosy and the White Fusion - so striking! I've got a Lancifolia, Vittata, and two leuconeura (not sure if they are anything more specific). I live in the cold dry North of Canada so I'm concerned how winter will affect them - we'll see! Would you ever trim the browned edges or damaged leaves? My kitten has been chewing on them, esp the lancifolia, but I'm not sure if I should trim them back. (I sprayed the plants with Bitter Apple spray - said on the bottle that it was plant-safe and it does seem to be helping). Do you use a specific food/feeding schedule? Also just some friendly feedback about the video - found the background music loop loud - distracted me from listening to what you had to say :(
Thanks for the feedback on the music; it is helpful to know! It sounds like you have a nice collection of plants! I have a calathea care video where I show how I trim away brown edges if you are interested. A lot of the time I just let them brown all the way up and then tug them out once they're loose enough. However, damaged leaves just might attract your kitten so trimming away the extra brown could be a good idea. I do avoid making cuts into the healthy tissue of the leaf when I trim, so there is a thin line of brown that I leave at the edges, as I don't want the plant to waste energy healing new wounds on old leaves. As far as fertilizer goes, I am pretty light handed. For the last year, I've used only worm castings as a top dressing. About two weeks ago I used a very, very diluted fish emulsion on a handful to see how it would go. So far, so good, but as someone who has scorched calathea with fertilizers--I'm careful! 😊
My calathea Dottie is a right a hole! I can’t believe it’s on your easy list 😂 it literally started turning into a Dorito until I put it in a terrarium which has like 100% humidity or close enough. If I leave the top open to get rid of some moisture it will start crisping up within the day. It didn’t crisp a little bit, like the leaf rapidly turned into a brown crispy Dorito. They seem to be doing well in the terrariums though (I separated the two leaves I had left into two separate terrariums just in case) now one has a baby too and the other one is starting to unfurl finally, whereas my makoyana has been amazing and I even use tap water and even without a humidifier it’s been perfect. Honestly regret purchasing the Dottie it’s been such a ball ache
It's hard to type when I am laughing this hard--I am sorry your Dottie is giving you a bad time! I feel this way about all of the plants in Group C but am too afraid to say it in front of them in case they all decide to crisp up right on the spot. I'm glad the terrarium is working. I tried to build one for a plantlet I took off the Zebrina, which was a big mistake (too young to split), and learned that I have no terrarium building skills. I need to just buy one.
Do you have any experience with the beauty star? I have one and am not able to get the pink stripes on the leaves. There are some white stripes on some leaves, others grow with no white stripes at all. May it be a light issue? For the rest it is doing quite well. BTW great video and amazing calathea collection!
Hi, Clara! I don't have a Beauty Star, though I have a few closely related calatheas. The thing about the pinstripe calatheas seems to be is that their appearance can change over time in terms of color/pattern (some of the pinstripe calatheas lose their stripes altogether as they reach full maturity). I have heard that light plays a role and I have also heard that maturity plays a role, too. Did it ever have pink stripes? I am not sure there is a definitive answer here but I do know that, in general, the appearance of a calathea can change greatly over time.
I have quite a few plants I don’t have drainage holes for or I have purposely kept the hole plugged. I do it for plants that need to keep some of that humidity level going because my apartment is rather dry and I don’t see humidifiers working in my plant spaces (they share their space near computers, books, etc). However never a store not having them in nursery pots that’s just a crime!!! Ahh
There are so many different calathea species--and hybrids and cultivars seem to pop up all of the time now! I try to keep them between 50-60% relative humidity. Sometimes, they get up into the 70% range, which is fine so long as I have enough air circulation so that moisture doesn't accumulate on the surface of the leaves.
thank you so much for these tips! I still have one question, maybe you know what went wrong with my calathea leopardina. She started to bloom and she was perfectly fine, got enough humidity, middle light, in the early evening a little stronger light and she was blooming about 5 month straight. Then she suddenly started to decline and what I mean REALLY decline :(. She started to get yellow leaves, hanging leaves, so I started to give her more water, but it didnt change everything. She is almost dead by now. I cutted of all the blossoms after they dried and kept everything else the same, but she still doesnt get better. It seemed to me that the blooming was just too much for her, but I dont know what to do no? Does she need more nutrition? Should I change the soil or get more fertilizer? Thank you for made this video it helped a lot and maybe someone knows to help =) Thank you in advance!
I don't have any advice sorry. My leopardina is blooming and is also struggling. I want to try and remove the blooms before they emerge but the buds are attached to the stem so it's difficult! As calathea grow from rhizomes I think you could theoretically cut it all back and it will regrow. But don't quote me!
For reference!!
Group A (Easy/For beginners):
- C. medallion
- C. rufibarba
- C. makoyana
- C. picturata crimson
- C. dottie
- C. illustris
- C. cora
Group B (Intermediate):
- C. margarita
- C. concina freddie
- C. musaica
- C. rosy
- C. sanderiana ornata
- C. princess jessie
- C. halo
- C. picturata argentea
- C. warscewiczii
Group C (Advanced):
- C. zebrina
- C. white tiger
- C. fusion white
- C. whitestar
- C. fucata
- C. misto
Group X (Unknown):
- C. vandenheckei (Group B?)
- C. ecuadoriana (Group A?)
- C. louisae (Group C?)
Thank you for this ranking!!
C. vandenheckei (A)
So I basically killed the easy ones and the advanced ones are living their best life with me 😂😂😂
Thanks for this!!
Thank you for showing beautiful flowerds
I bought a Fucata on accident when searching for an Orbifolia. I keep her a ft away from a North window next to my humidifier surrounded by ferns and she is giving me so much love. While all my other calatheas are hating me. She's my most beautiful one. I bought a tiny burle marx baby with two leaves and it had been struggling. I finally gave up on it and put the root node with no leaves left into a mossy terrarium and now it has three leaves.
So I finally know what type of calathea I have! Picturata argentea! I bought it because I thought the leaves were pretty and I had no idea how fickle calathea are! After a few months of frustrating research and almost killing him a few times he is now happy in my bathroom with bright indirect light, a pebble tray of filtered water, weekly soil moisture checks, watering with filtered water and very diluted fertilizer, and increased humidity in that room. Yeah. Somehow each new leaf is so much more rewarding when you have to work that hard for it!
How do you know it's Picturata Argentea and not Halo? They look the same to me, at least from the video
Or it could be a royal standard or a corona. They are all similar.
Whats the difference between white fusion and white tiger?
I fell in love with this calathea when I first saw it and didnt know it's a Zebrina! I gave solely all my love, care and humidity yet it was still droopy and dying so I gave up and placed it outside together with my other plants. The next morning I was shocked it grew healthy again and even water it w/ tap water together with my other plants! My zebrina drove me crazy yet i still adore it so much ❤️
Thank you for this video! It’s fun to see so many different types. It’s also reassuring to hear that even experienced owners can have issues with these divas! I have 5 calatheas and they’re mostly happy but I definitely don’t have the humidity high enough for them.
The first plant that i have bought was calathea maui, i just love her ♡ i didnt know anything about plants but she is still very healthy and still growing ♡
I struggle with all calatheas in the dry climate I live in. I'm glad you did a video on calatheas. Thanks for the great info!
Hola desde Panamá🇵🇦.. No entiendo tu idioma ..pero si pude entender el idioma universal de la belleza de las plantas.. Felicitaciones por tan hermosa colección de plantas.. Me encantó👍
For anyone who doesn't know. Essential oils are photo-toxic. So when a plant is introduced to sunlight while it has Essential oils such as neem oil. It causes chemical burns. This is true for people as well. Thats why it's so important to dilute it.
Can you please do a new video on what different calathea leaf conditions are telling you. For example, new leaf growth coming in smaller and lower down to the base of the plant, lower leaves yellowing, curling and dying off, (I'm noticing this after watering, not sure if it's a coincedence) when it's normal old leaf loss and when it's a watering issue. New leaves coming in with see through edges which eventually crisp. Not producing new leaves at all or rarely. As you can tell i am having several issues with all my calathea! There's not a great deal of info out there on these issues so i thought you might be able to help! Thank you
Sounds like your calathea is getting overwatered
She did a video about calathea leaf conditions and what each can mean. It was super detailed and informative.
Sounds like over water or your not using distilled water
I love these plants! Great video!! I have 5 calathea plants. ... I found that they hate to dry out. ... so I bought those self watering bulbs. ... on my larger medallion I have a glass bulb and on the smaller one some smaller bulbs that are platic i found on amazon. You xare right about humidity! One more thing.... my first one i forgot to water it died....but I read somewhere it will grow back from its rhizomes and it has grown 2 new stems. ...thanks for the video
I'm suprised that you don't have an Orbifolia, your plants are absolutely beautifullll! Ive had a small Orbifolia and quite a few different calatheas for just over a year and they're definitely one of my favorites for sure!
I am really afraid of Orbifolias! For some reason, I am convinced I won't be able to keep it alive. But I am glad yours is doing well. 😊 They really are beautiful!
@@AddyBeez I killed an orbifolia 😢
Any tips on how to care for an orbifolia? I just purchased one and a lot of videos say they are up and down
@@AddyBeez I’ve found the single best way to keep one alive is to keep it close to a humidifier, and out of the sun. In nature they thrive underneath tree canopies, and receive VERY little sunlight, mine has been so happy!
@@isaacspeyer1129расплывчато. Калатеям нужно немного Lux (освещенности), но длительное время освещения. Поставить их в совсем малоосвещеное место плохая идея- они не смогут полноценно развиваться. Для справки (будет полезно). Калатеям нужно ~ 4500-8000lux [~80- 140 umol] это поможет подобрать лампу и правильно её расположить
This video was very helpful for me. I am a fairly new Calathea Mom. I love them. Thank you for all the info.
Thank you for sharing your tips and experiences ...we plant parents always need to be more generous with our patience and humility 😊
So true--this is such a good reflection! 😊
Please do a care video on the White Star. I just can’t figure out how to keep it happy. I give it distilled water and keep it at 60% humidity and the new leaves unfurl with brown tips or develop crisps shortly after. What am I doing wrong? 🥺
What would you say the optimum humidity for the hardest to grow ones is? What about the minimum to keep them happy?
Yaiks! Just saw this after I just bought my first Calatheas... Zebrina, White Tiger and Ornata... 😳😳😳
just repotted one of my Zebrina yesterday when I saw your video yesterday about the yellow edges.
Binge watching your videos and thanks for all the infos about them. ♥️
I’m a Calathea lover too, I relate tho this video so hard!!! It’s a great video, you are so knowledgeable and I love learning from you!
Thank you so much, bronwyn! 😊 They do bring so much joy into my house.
So gorgeous 😍 im new to these plants. But have always love unique looking plants and flowers. I feel fulfilled and happy when I see them thrive.
I agree! Their foliage is so gorgeous and they truly do brighten my home up.
Oh my Addy!!! That’s me, well one of many I guess who recently asked this and you did it! Wow thanks for showing this to us. Must be hard to rank and judge them and have something specific to say. Goes to show you pay attention really well to each and single one of these beauties! Thank you!!!!!!! Supporting from Japan
Yes! And thank you so much for the recommendation--I'm glad that conditions permitted me to get them all together for the video. 😊 Each one seems to have a lesson to teach me, that's for sure! Thanks for the support, so appreciated!
What kind of soil use in repotting Calathea plants?
Completely the opposite way round from me! With houseplants, I think, the most important factor is the nature of 'house'. See - you seem to be in a 'new build' so you don't have the damp and dingy thing that I have with my three hundred year old stone cottage. People can talk about window direction, window distance, latitude and precise humidity needs but it comes down to some plants like old houses and some plants like new houses. Just about every video I see, online, about houseplants is from somebody who is raising them in a recently built house. All of that advice, I now realise, I have to put through my own algorithm. Apart from using room temperature collected rain water - that's pretty much a good thing across the board.
My Calatheas all seem to hate being top watered, too, so I've got all mine in self watering pots with chutes down to the reservoir and water level indicators. I try to keep the indicator levels at about half full.
Love this! Became a calathea fan a few months now and can't stop! Looking for the difficult to find ecuadorian calathea! next! Cannot find! Ty for great video!
Absolutely beautiful.. 😍
Calathea are my absolute favorite.. Nothing can beat them when it comes to beauty and foliage.. Though they are little finicky and they don't love me that much.. 🙃😁 But I'm learning gradually how to keep them happy..
Thanks for sharing.. It helps..
hi. how you use neem oil on calathea. can you tell me the ratio and process? thanks
I love Calatheas too!! Recently got the rattle snake ones and I think they are likely to be group A. However I live in a tropical country - Singapore so I guess that contributes to the easier maintenance here for most of the calatheas.
Surprisingly, my rufibarba is one of my most problematic. I was having problems with my warcewitzi over the winter but I just cut it down to the soil level, placed it in a self watering Lechuza pot and substrate and it has grown quite a few new great leaves. The beautiful louisae now has 3 leaves. I chopped off all the leaves except one and totally just watered it and waited for it to die. Apparently, she wants to live! You have a great collection! My easiest Calathea is the C. lancifolia. It has not given me any humidity issues and is quite beautiful!
Oh--this is good to know! 😊 I need to figure something out--I am pretty sure the roots are damaged on mine. It put out a new rhizome--or I should say that it put out new growth on a rhizome that seemed to recover but the leaves all show root damage. A few people having been mentioning how well calathea do in Leca and I am trying to work up the nerve to try it/research enough to know how to get started. I am going to have to look more into Lechuza pots, too, thanks for the tip. Some of the species that get water stressed easily may do better in one!
I always enjoy seeing what calatheas that other people have....thank you for sharing your collection. The only problem that I have had is with my white fusion....I had it about 8 ft.away from the window, it looked all droopy. I took the risk and moved it to about 3ft. from the window and it seems to love it. I thought that the white leaves would burn, so far so good. If you want those 3 calatheas to drop their law suit....you might want to consider getting a table size water fountain and only use distilled water in it. My fountain was only 27.00 from Amazon.
My calatheas really love light, too. Oh--the fountain is an interesting idea! I am going to have check that out.
I have a mosaica (group b). Bought it on a whim. It’s doing great. I don’t do a thing to it. I have found that if a plant likes it’s spot - it will do well. If it doesn’t like its home - you will have problems from day 1.
It doesn't like this home! It has four healthy new leaves but I am not certain they will stay that way.
People in my locality says I would regret buying calathea coz it's won't last till Christmas time, my calathea's are still doing good so far and I'm looking forward to it😀. I would like to know what soil mix or potting mix you use for your calatheas.
This was really thorough. When I moved my calatheas to shallower pots, there was marked improvement. Thanks for sharing your tips.
What do you mean, how shallow?
@@kimchiiiii0525 About 3-4 inches deep and 5-6 inches wide.
Thank you for your helpful classification system- I think I own four in Group B. What humidity levels were you aiming for with your calathea collection? And also what has been your experience of caring for them over winter- did you have grow lights to supplement the shorter daylight. Thanks!
Great video! I'd love to see an update. I bought an orbifolia as my first calathea, and one of my first tropical, not knowing how much or a diva they were. It's alive but with crispy leaves when there was humidity stress and when I used tap water.
Hi u have some really nice choices of plants keep it up thanks for sharing tips on how to care for them
For me here in Seattle, makoyana is hands-down the most bulletproof, as is setosa. The big round leaved ones like ‘Medallion’ and illustris seem much more prone to browning edges. They all hate getting too cold but makoyana responded only by downward-pointing leaves, and came right out of it when the weather warmed. Mine now lives 8 feet away from a south-facing window, and is a complete beast.
Curling leaves do seem to happen with root damage, either from drying or overwatering.
The ones that break the most hearts (here) seem to be any of the velvety leaved ones, and also the pink-lined ones (ornata, ornata sanderiana). And of course $&#%€¥ ‘Fusion White’. 🤣
No mention of orbifolia, but people here seem to have good success with it as long as they are good on the watering. I recommend they treat them like some of the more finicky ferns in that respect - consistent, “little at a time” watering to maintain a constantly moist but not wet soil. Not so into bottom watering as it tends to lead to a wet bottom layer before the upper layers can get moistened.
Wow, they’re absolutely stunningly beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Wow! What a great vid. You are sooo knowledgeable…and humble. Really enjoyed this!
beautiful calatheas...thanks for your informative video
Makoyana is the easiest Calathea in my opinion! Always happy, easy going.
Please please do an update video! Did your collection increase too maybe? Super helpful
Wow! Your collection is gorgeous!! I'll definitely keep this video as a reference. I can't keep up w/ their humidity requirements, especially in the winter when my prayer plant really took a beating. My little Dottie is doing fine right now out of it's terrarium, but come fal,l it's going back in there. It makes you wonder how they manage to survive in the wild - unless their natural habitat is a swamp, lol!
Such a good point! Once I learned that some of them live in actual cloud forests (montane environments)-- well. Not exactly easy to replicate in my area. I'm so glad that your Dottie is doing well. 😊 Oh! My Aglaonema is putting out a new leaf, or trying to, but I do think I got the watering wrong because its lowest leaf is definitely going to turn yellow. Do you think a terracotta pot might be better for it or would that dry it out too fast? The yellowing could be from acclimation/shipping stress but I'm not sure.
@@AddyBeez After one died from root rot, I propagated a stem in water and recently transitioned it to soil. It's doing great, so I'm definitely moving it to terracotta as soon as those roots are firmly established in the nursery pot. I'm hoping it will lower the chance of it getting rot again. That plant was never healthy and it hung on for a year before it's rapid decline, so at least they are hearty!
Your calathea collection is amazing and beautiful. I give up on calatheas after killing a dottie and struggling keeping the others I own alive. I will not buy another. I love them but they don't love me.
I understand--there are plants that I like but can't keep in my house for one reason or another. There are calathea I can't keep, too. Pretty sure I will not be getting any more Fucatas--I imagine it is pretty mad at me about now.
For me the orbifolia is easiest she never complains but the medallion is such a diva 😂 Loved the video!
Same!! Mine keeps loosing its colors it’s almost completely green now not sure what to do to fix that!!!
Maybe i should try the orbifolia. I’ve literally killed 3-4 medallions. I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. The peacock is in the same room & is literally thriving so much!😩
Mine some are healthy and few drive me crazy.. I love them very much and can’t see them suffering
Your Calatheas are so beautiful!
I wish I could take credit! They are my favorite! 😊
Addy Beez Yes you can take credit.
I'm new and really enjoyed your format, explanations, and labeling. Beautiful plants, appreciate the names but hard to read on light pink background for a such a short glimpse.
I think I am pretty lucky to live in a tropical country (Indonesia).. As long as calathea are placed in bright indirect light & close to other plants, they are pretty happy. We have no problem with humidity and I noticed calathea just love humid place & the soil must also humid too.. I have black dottie, pink cynthia & fasciata.. I'd love to have more but the prices are so expensive here 😂
They're so pretty. I love them calatheas
Me too! 😊
I have a question! What do you use to maintain pest-free calatheas? Does neem+soap solution work for you, no adverse effects on the plants?:)) thanks!!!
I've had a few of those some easier some advanced (medallion, picturata crimson, dottie and zebrina) but all of them died.
My musaica is around 6 years old. And even though we had our ups and downs it outlived all of them and it's doing pretty good.
Currently it is sprouting 7 new leaves and I'm soo proud of it! (It's one of the first plants that I ever purchased)
Your Makoyana is absolutely gorgeous😍I hope mine ends up looking like that🌿✨
Great vid, you're my go - to channel for calathea care! After a year long battle with recurrent spidermites on my Whitestar, I just gave up and she is now buried in my compost tip! I only have one calathea left and that's a Fusion White. Got it as a 5 leaf plantlet about a year ago and it's thriving! Still a small plant but about three times the size it was. 👍
I'd love a warsceweckii but they are very hard to find for me.
Oh, I understand. Spider mites can just decimate a plant so quickly. I'm glad that your Fusion White is doing well! 😊 Impressive growth!! Mine just seems to replace its leaves without growing bigger though maybe this year. Maybe. I feel like some calatheas are just impossible to get where I am--or, it will at least take a couple of years for them to get on market. The Warscewiczii is honestly so lovely and I have treated it so poorly. Had I done a better job from the beginning, it would look quite different now.
@@AddyBeez you won't believe it but I found an absolute beauty of a warscewiczii at IKEA today! 6" pot with three huge plants in it, 45cm tall (I think that's about 18") for 10 euros!!! (12$US)
Happy dance time, I tell you! 😁
Not a blemish on it but, as usual, it's in quarantine on my dining room table. I've never brought pests home on an IKEA plant but better safe than sorry!
So happy 😊
I’m glad I have well water in my house so I don’t have to worry about the water damaging the plants
Oh my god awesome! I have 17 different Marantas. Your video is greaaattttt
17 different marantas! That sounds amazing. 😊
How do you use your humidifier ? how long do you run it ? how often do you run it ? Do you use it every day for two hours or . . . .
Please share , Thank you
Wow beautiful calathea.they really love rains
Whats the difference between Rosy and Crimson Calatheas? Its so hard to tell!
Yeah I didn't see any difference between the two?
The results are worth the efforts and very satisfying. I wanted to grow these for a long time but my climate would not allow it. Do you favour the use of a humidifier or an evaporative cooler? Does a humidifier create mold in your room?
Not sure about anyone else, but depending on how warm your room stays and the type of calathea you could get away with misting it two or three times a day instead of using a humidifier. That's what I do, and my white fusion is super super happy.
I used to think i know pretty much all calatheas.... Until UA-cam recommended me your video !! 😅
Misto has been the easiest calathea for me till now, don't know how though ! And that louisae is just amazing 😍.... Would love to know where and how one can get it ?
Beautiful collection! The only calathea I have is a medallion and prior to moving to my current home it was doing fine (popped a lot of new pretty leaves in janurary!). But now that I have a new space it having trouble adjusting and I am so sad. The humidity is in the 40% and being I only have one calathea I wasn’t keen on bringing out my humidifier again but I think I might have to. Calathea are so beautiful but you do have to commit more to it then other plants
Thank you and agreed! 😊 Honestly, I've wondered if I like calathea so much because I know they'll take up the time that I would have spent killing my other plants with over watering.
Beautiful collection.......your tips are very helpful .....thank you .
Thank you! :)
Loved your video. Currently own rattlesnake,orbifolia,majestica white star, zebrina, and musaica. :)
Where do you buy your calathea's?
Thanks for the video! My princess Jessie is going through the same thing with leaves browning and crisping. How did you treat yours?
I am now at a point where before buying new calatheas, I wonder which category they belong :P Added new to my collection and while I was at the plant store, I kept rewatching this :)
You know--I should update this in a year to see if I still feel the same. It's so hard to know if I'm being objective or not! And congrats on your new calathea! 😊
Thank you for making this video I really needed this information and loved it
Im so jealous you were able to snatch a GORGEOUS makoyana at lowes. I got mine at a nursery and it's a little baby right now but I'm excited for it to get thiccc 😋
Excellent video! Calatheas have become my favourite, and all the information you provided will be super helpful.
Would you say the water in a humidifier needs to be distilled too?
Humidifiers, where I am, come with a warning to use distilled or other types of filtered (for example: demineralized) water because the process of releasing the vapor into the air can also release minerals from water into the air, among other concerns. However, I am certainly not an expert! But I do follow the EPA's recommendation to use distilled water to be safe. You can find a bit about it here: www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-08/documents/humidifier_factsheet.pdf
Hi new to your plant video really enjoy looking at your plant I appreciate you giving advice on how to take care of them I had one of them recently it's looks like the peacock feathers it started to dry up from the leaves and eventually die but I have to get another one so happy planting
Oh, happy Sunday! ☕️ 💚
Happy Sunday, Whitney! 😊
Merci de m'avoir appris à connaître quelques unes de mes plantes par leur nom spécifique .
Somehow for me the hardest ones are makoya and lancifolia, and orbifolia and stromanthe triostar feel perfect! They are all baby sized though. Just bought a white star in a normal size, let’s see how it goes..
Beautiful calatheas! So nice to see their leaves so shiny!
I wish my medallion looked as nice as yours! I bought mine over the summer - It looked great but quickly declined when it became infected with spider mites. I’ve tried everything but it hasn’t improved. Soon, it’ll have no leaves left. Not sure what else to do ☹️ How do you care for your rescue calatheas?
Hi! Thank you so much for the video. I noticed you didn't include Calathea Insignis. Which group would you put that in, please?
I killed C. White Fussion once but now I have been growing one and she is doing good.
.. I mist all my Calatheas (all 22) every day using boiled, cooled, filtered tap water and they are as happy as can be.. I also use the same for watering (for all 120 plants).. Only not my warscewiczii as the leafs are sensitive to water, but, she has a peppletray ☺️.. They love to be outside when raining (on my garden table under a huge parasol) and the humidity is sky-high.. My leopardina is blooming for the 3rd time this year, 3 yellow flowers every time.. Guess I must be doing something right 🙄.. All my Calatheas are growing like crazy 😳 and so far, I haven't had not even the smallest issue with any of them..
Wow ive never seen some of these gorgeous plants.. I think i have to wait till i get a humidifier. Where i live its anywhere from 6% to 20% humidity.. But these are all beautiful
I am really taken by their foliage. They remind me of one of my favorite outdoor plants that doesn't do well in my area (hostas), so it is a pleasure getting to have them indoors. 😊
Well thought out video!! This was a excellent depiction of Calathea’s! I’m trying to nurse my Fasciata back to life. It appears to have white spots on several leaves.
Funny. I own 8 calatheas. None have had spider mites but the picturata. I ended up treating it, cutting leaves and eventually calling it a day and getting rid of it.
They're so beautiful ♡♡ I hope what you got through what you were having before :) tale care.
Will you please share with me the mixture of the soil you use? Thank you!
oh gosh I have two calatheas only and they really stress me out 😄😄😄 I actually just realized that their both advanced ones...😅
I like to know please where you are ordering your Calathea? I went to Lowe and Home Depot I only found 2 kinds. You had beautiful Calatheas. Thx you for sharing your Videos.
Thanks for this video. I would agree with zebrina and white fusion being in the advance category. I wish I knew that before buying them. I am a new plant mom and to have those 2 as a new plant owner was quite challenging. I use distilled water, humidifier and they still didn’t do well. I think they ended up suffering water stress (overwatering). I didn’t even water it frequently, but I think when I watered it, I used too much water. They need the perfect amount of water. Not too much, not too little, just right. Like Goldie locks and the 3 bears 😅😂
That is a perfect description! 😊 The care is tricky, especially because it's hard to know what they were used to at the nursery. Some seem to be easy to care for and others--well. Not so much!
It is tricky getting that perfect balance of water (and I also find they ironically like a lot of aeration as well. I've switched all my calatheas to self-watering and it's made both me and them a lot happier.
I just baught a Rosie at Lows and i was able to diagnose its leaves with hard water damage. Wish me luck in its rehoming process. No more tap water for Rosie. What im most concerned about now is if I need to repot it to start fresh with distilled water.
I have repotted immediately in the past but have since held off to give the plant a chance to acclimate to its new environment (so as long as there is nothing wrong with the soil). Starting with a distilled water now that it is in your home will help flush the soil and in my experience, it has helped to mitigate the need to repot right away. Good luck with your new Rosie! :)
There's no Orbifolia here. Is there a reason you don't have it at all? 😅 I am dying to get one.
I'm so impressed by your Calathea collection! Absolutely beautiful. I will live vicariously through you, as I have such bad luck with these guys. 😆
OMG I saw your Sansevieria collection! So impressive!!! I have two and lets just say that 50% of my Sansevierias don't like me. We can live vicariously through each other! 😂
Your calathea sooo beautiful..🥰🥰
Beautiful Calatheas. May I ask where are you getting all of the Calatheas from? I have never even heard of some of them. Great video, new subscriber here.
Thanks! 😊 I source a lot from sellers on Etsy.com--you can find some rare ones throughout the year. I also buy from local sellers when I can and also from sites like planterina.com.
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How big are your pots? Right now I have a calathea peacock plant with a 8 inch wide and 6 inch tall pot... Is it acceptable or should I change my pot? And thank you soooo much for sharing, very informative😊
My Zebrina has been such a trooper. It was one of my earliest plants. It got spider mites and I didn’t know what to do so I just put it outside in the dry Southern California heat that goes down to 20% humidity. I give it filtered but not distilled water. Does it have crispy tips? Yes, but not bad at all. 😃
You say humidity stress, but you have a humidifier. Are you around 50-60 %? And those need more humidity than that? My favourite is the Mokoyana, I love mine. It's just easy, looks like a painter made it, perfect leaves and I love the back and forth movement it makes every day.
Yes, a lot of the humidity stress came from spending time in lower humidity levels before being in an area with the humidifier. I would say very few need higher humidity than 50-60%, most do well with that, but once the damage is there, it is a matter of waiting for it to grow out.
@@AddyBeez thanks! I'm buying a humidifier soon so will introduce some more difficult varieties then. Thank for your video!
Hello Addy! Enjoyed the video and information - loved the Rosy and the White Fusion - so striking! I've got a Lancifolia, Vittata, and two leuconeura (not sure if they are anything more specific). I live in the cold dry North of Canada so I'm concerned how winter will affect them - we'll see! Would you ever trim the browned edges or damaged leaves? My kitten has been chewing on them, esp the lancifolia, but I'm not sure if I should trim them back. (I sprayed the plants with Bitter Apple spray - said on the bottle that it was plant-safe and it does seem to be helping). Do you use a specific food/feeding schedule?
Also just some friendly feedback about the video - found the background music loop loud - distracted me from listening to what you had to say :(
Thanks for the feedback on the music; it is helpful to know! It sounds like you have a nice collection of plants! I have a calathea care video where I show how I trim away brown edges if you are interested. A lot of the time I just let them brown all the way up and then tug them out once they're loose enough. However, damaged leaves just might attract your kitten so trimming away the extra brown could be a good idea. I do avoid making cuts into the healthy tissue of the leaf when I trim, so there is a thin line of brown that I leave at the edges, as I don't want the plant to waste energy healing new wounds on old leaves. As far as fertilizer goes, I am pretty light handed. For the last year, I've used only worm castings as a top dressing. About two weeks ago I used a very, very diluted fish emulsion on a handful to see how it would go. So far, so good, but as someone who has scorched calathea with fertilizers--I'm careful! 😊
@@AddyBeez Thanks Addy, I subscribed and will check it out. Thanks for the advice!
My calathea Dottie is a right a hole! I can’t believe it’s on your easy list 😂 it literally started turning into a Dorito until I put it in a terrarium which has like 100% humidity or close enough. If I leave the top open to get rid of some moisture it will start crisping up within the day. It didn’t crisp a little bit, like the leaf rapidly turned into a brown crispy Dorito. They seem to be doing well in the terrariums though (I separated the two leaves I had left into two separate terrariums just in case) now one has a baby too and the other one is starting to unfurl finally, whereas my makoyana has been amazing and I even use tap water and even without a humidifier it’s been perfect. Honestly regret purchasing the Dottie it’s been such a ball ache
It's hard to type when I am laughing this hard--I am sorry your Dottie is giving you a bad time! I feel this way about all of the plants in Group C but am too afraid to say it in front of them in case they all decide to crisp up right on the spot. I'm glad the terrarium is working. I tried to build one for a plantlet I took off the Zebrina, which was a big mistake (too young to split), and learned that I have no terrarium building skills. I need to just buy one.
Do you have any experience with the beauty star? I have one and am not able to get the pink stripes on the leaves. There are some white stripes on some leaves, others grow with no white stripes at all. May it be a light issue? For the rest it is doing quite well. BTW great video and amazing calathea collection!
Hi, Clara! I don't have a Beauty Star, though I have a few closely related calatheas. The thing about the pinstripe calatheas seems to be is that their appearance can change over time in terms of color/pattern (some of the pinstripe calatheas lose their stripes altogether as they reach full maturity). I have heard that light plays a role and I have also heard that maturity plays a role, too. Did it ever have pink stripes? I am not sure there is a definitive answer here but I do know that, in general, the appearance of a calathea can change greatly over time.
Your plants look amazing!! I love this video thank you!! You have so many varieties that I don’t have
Thank you! 😊 It feels like I learn about a new variety every week!
I have quite a few plants I don’t have drainage holes for or I have purposely kept the hole plugged. I do it for plants that need to keep some of that humidity level going because my apartment is rather dry and I don’t see humidifiers working in my plant spaces (they share their space near computers, books, etc). However never a store not having them in nursery pots that’s just a crime!!! Ahh
Wow so many ones that I never seen. What is the level of humidity you keep them on?
There are so many different calathea species--and hybrids and cultivars seem to pop up all of the time now! I try to keep them between 50-60% relative humidity. Sometimes, they get up into the 70% range, which is fine so long as I have enough air circulation so that moisture doesn't accumulate on the surface of the leaves.
Addy Beez Thank you so much for the amazing information! I will do my best to keep them alive here in las vegas weather lol
Which kind of soil are you using guys for Calatheas and Maranthas? Thanks!
What potting mix do you use? I only get red soil as a base. Should I mix it with succulent potting mix?
thank you so much for these tips! I still have one question, maybe you know what went wrong with my calathea leopardina. She started to bloom and she was perfectly fine, got enough humidity, middle light, in the early evening a little stronger light and she was blooming about 5 month straight. Then she suddenly started to decline and what I mean REALLY decline :(. She started to get yellow leaves, hanging leaves, so I started to give her more water, but it didnt change everything. She is almost dead by now. I cutted of all the blossoms after they dried and kept everything else the same, but she still doesnt get better. It seemed to me that the blooming was just too much for her, but I dont know what to do no? Does she need more nutrition? Should I change the soil or get more fertilizer?
Thank you for made this video it helped a lot and maybe someone knows to help =) Thank you in advance!
I don't have any advice sorry. My leopardina is blooming and is also struggling. I want to try and remove the blooms before they emerge but the buds are attached to the stem so it's difficult!
As calathea grow from rhizomes I think you could theoretically cut it all back and it will regrow. But don't quote me!
It looks like you've overwatered it.