How to Care for Prayer Plants | Plant Care Tips and Maintenance
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- How to Care for Prayer Plants | Place Care Tips and Maintenance. Today I am going over my prayer plant care. I am going to tell you how I care for prayer plants, marantas, calathea, stromanthe, and ctenanthe.
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I really love how you admit that you don't use distilled/filtered water simply because it's a pain in the butt! I tried for ages to make my calatheas happy by giving them lots of light, filtered water, and love... they absolutely hated it and yellowed like crazy. Once I started neglecting them and moved them to a (relatively) dark corner, they started to thrive! Plants are wild like that lol.
That sounds like me and orchids, everyone says how difficult they are. I pretty much abuse them, and they blossom over and over again. 😅💚🌿🪷🌺
All I Can say is "You're The Prayer Plant Queen" 😁🤗🤗 Action speaks louder than words!
Just look at all your beauties!!! They all look picture perfect. Enjoyed your video.🤗🤗
Wow 😮 what a collection 🥰
Thank you 🤗
I love prayer plants. The fact that they are moving make you realize they are living creatures not to say they have one of the most beautiful foliage beside begonias in the plant world.:)
That is an interesting way to think about it 🙂🙂🙂
Your prayer plant collection is absolutely beautiful ❤ thank you for the tips , super helpful🎉
I agree with you on all points except type of water. I’m guessing you have fantastic water. I could not keep either alive until I used distilled and now they are all thriving. I also noticed that mine did much better in plastic so I took them all out of my clay pots. I truly hope yours continue to thrive for you. It really is a chore to keep distilled water on hand. I wish I didn’t have to use it. I also tried rain water and spring water but my distilled was my key to success.
I have a humidifier that requires distilled h20 so I already have it around to use for sensitive plants.
You can get a gallon of Distilled water in Walmart for eighty cent
I’m glad that you found something that works for you and your plants. I definitely have hard water but I also don’t give my plants any other choices lol if they didn’t do well with the tap I either wouldn’t have as many if any at all.
I misted my prayer plant, and it gave me purple flowers!
I learned a lot! Thank you!
Thank you for watching
I have prayer plants & I don’t use filtered or distilled water either, I let my water sit out at room temperature before I water them ( I do this for all my plants now ) I have no browning & my prayer plants are always full of new growth.
That’s awesome. I have heard several others using water other than distilled or filtered and having great success. I am glad that it’s working for you as well.
My trick is using my fish tanks water! If you don't have a fish tank, buy some water conditioner for fish tanks, super cheap, lasts a long time, you only need 5ml per 5 gallons of water for most kinds. Something easy and more convenient to help more. A lot of plants will be fine w tap, for awhile, but eventually the junk will build up in the soil and it will show effects for sure!
This is an excellent suggestion. I use the water conditioner and it has been a game changer.
Such a beautiful collection!! This is one of the plants that I’ve wanted but was afraid to get because I thought I needed to provide higher humidity for them. Now I’m thinking I should give them a try!!
Yes, I’d love to see a video on how to propagate them.
Thank you so much for this video - it’s really helpful! 😊💜
Love your Calathea collection! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing it. 🪴🌱
I love the variegation of prayer plants. They're all so gorgeous.
They are very interesting plants for sure
I try to watch all your plant videos. Thank you for the time and effort you put into them.
Thank you for demystifying calatheas and all the great info!
Helpful! Thank you! 💚☀️
I love prayer plants thanks for sharing 💜
So beautiful. I'm finally getting hoyas. Working on them for awhile. When I get confident w them prayer plants here I come.
What an informative video. Thank You.
I am so impressed by your knowledge and care tips. I just purchased another calathea and am going to try it again. I have had some in the past, but I could never get the hang of it. So, the information you gave will hopefully work for me too! I will let you know in a couple of months! Thank you so much.😊
Many thanks for another amazing educational and visually engrossing plant related video! I’ve watched before and now once more to help me figure out why I lost my Calathea Medallion a few months ago…think it was sudden temperature change, pale leaf backs, overwatering finished it off. You helped me solve this so now I can get another Calathea (with a maroon leaf underside). Always enjoy your content and your knowledge and feedback always keep me following and discovering different plants as well. 🌴🪴🌿💐
Thank you so much for explaining the prayer plant care. Your explanations are so informative and simple to understand. I will be moving my prayer plants to less light placement, I am so happy I can fill low light areas at home with my prayer plants. Thank you again for all your great videos!!
I love your videos! Thank you for trying a new genus and sharing your experience 💚💚
Thank you. I am so Glad you like them!
I like the information she's putting out
Excellent video! So many pretty plants. Beautiful collection!! Good information and good tips. Well done, as always!! 🕊🌿🥰💚
Thanks so much! 😊
Mine aren't really happy without distilled water (some can handle it for a bit but then start to have trouble again after a while). I didn't want to have to water them with different water either, so I converted all my calatheas to self-watering pots with lechuza pon. That way they remain moist but are never soggy and it's no extra work because I just fill their reservoirs once a month and they're really happy.
I now have several, can u recommend which self watering pots u use PLEASE?
Also what is luchuwan water please?
LLesuron pon? I mean
@@lisabromeliads8150 It's a mineral substrate constituting of lava rock, zeolite, and pumice stone. It retains water well but is extremely airy and I find it's a great substrate for a lot of trickier plants. It also removes the guess work of trying to mix a soil mix and not knowing how airy works for your home. Lechuza is the brand that sells the mix. One can also make their own with those ingredients. I've seen cheaper generic ones at garden stores occasionally as well. Lechuza makes self-watering pots, too. But to be honest, I just watched some videos and made some myself using a deep cover pot and a wick.
All of your plants look perfect. Thank you for this information.
Thank you 🙂🙂🙂
I just got a Calathea Orbifolia - my first plant !!! Thank you for all your advice. Hopefully my plant - friend will grow and thrive
Love your plants! I'm going to try one with clay pot. I had one that got hit by some bright sun and went into decline and never recovered. I have another that is doing well. I don't use distilled water, the sun was the issue for mine because the plant areas in my house get bright light during the day. I backed the one that is doing well away from the sun. This is a most excellent video!
Iam glad you mentioned that they need warmth. Now I feel that I did the right thing. Because I recently bought a very small orbiofolia, the last one in the store. It looked sad already but "it felt like mine" so I bought it against better judgement. 😄And I live in Sweden so it was maybe 1+ Celsius, and snowing outside... It looked really sad when I got home. I didn't have distilled water as everyone said it needed, but my feeling was that it wasn't thirsty, just cold. I put it in my pentry window (with gentle indirect light) turned up the heat and closed the door. It's starting to look better but I'm not sure yet which way it will go.
I keep the thermostat in my apartment 68 - 70 degrees, it works ok with all my plants. 💚
Your collection is beautiful. I received one calathea as a gift. I’ve been giving it spring water and keeping it in the bathroom for humidity. So far so good.
I love your collection. I have 2 hanging red maranta prayer plants. I water them with purified water. I find them very beautiful. I love that you show so many varieties.
Very good information
Beautiful collection! I would love to hear more about how soil mixtures affect moisture meter readings. I have a few pots that always show that the soil is dry, but it feels very moist to the touch. It is very frustrating as I rely on my meter.
That's a really nice collection of payer plants and they seem to be thriving under your care.
I only have one prayer plant at the moment. A Goeppertia insignis (formerly Calathea lancifolia - most Calathea species have been reclassified as Goeppertia). It was in the mail for about a week and unfortunately it took some damage from it. Several new leaves have died. I hope it recovers cause its leaves are gorgeous. The other leaves look fine. I do give mine filtered water but I may be a bit too afraid of overwatering it... This genus is still quite new for me so I'm still learning how to take care of it.
Thanks for all the great info.
Thank you for watching
oh id love a prayer plant collection video! i personally only own a calathea roseopicta from ikea (that was struggling BIG TIME when i got her but i came along to also figure out most of the advice you gave, mainly regarding sun and watering) and also the regular pink maranta which is honestly doing okay but not good good? she keeps flowering randomly but also some of her leafs keep yellowing.
i definitely have the calathea makoyana and the stromanthe triostar on my wish list !!!!
G'Day from Sydney🐨🦘 I absolutely love your collection and this video was extremely helpful 👍 I use rain water for all my plants. I have 2 Calatheas...Makoyana and Orbifolia and I have struggled a bit with them and your tips on light and water, are spot on so thank you🙏 I was giving them too bright light so will move them now and letting them dry a little more than I should have. See how we go 😃
Great video. Very informative. Spider mites devastated my makoyana. Its coming back now. I use pumice instead of perlite. I change the soil too. They're always in peat. I also repot them into terracotta pots.
Beautiful collection
Thank you 🙂🙂🙂
I love my prayer plant but I noticed she’s been struggling. I’ve moved her away from the sun and next to a peace lily and I think she’s doing much better now. I love your collection!
I'm getting that calatheas are the perfect plan for the helicopter plant parents! Maranta are much more forgiving! I'm only saying that because different plants work differently in different people's homes
Thanks, great video. Of the prayer plant category, I have a pretty big Calathea Orbifolia and pretty big Rattlesnake. Of the marantas, I have seven of them. Massangeana Black Maranta (newer variety), Kerchovean Green one, Fascinator Red one, Cristrata- Grizzle (newer variety), Silver Band, Lemon Lime, Beauty Kim (variegated).
My few prayer plants I own have to be on humidity trays. I must mist them and not let the soil dry out at all. But all of them generally die back from the shock of going from a nice nursery to my arid home. I’ve learned not to give up on them right away and when they grow back (such as my Lemon Lime Maranta) they seem to be more resilient. My home generally goes from 17% (or less) to 30% max humidity. So you can see plants here have to be tough. Lol. I do also run 3 humidifiers in my plant room to bring up the humidity to a minimum of 40%. But it’s a lot of work to keep that up. (That’s the reason for the humidity trays and misting.). I will keep in my mind now about how you mentioned the leaves may not like that most, though. I don’t douse them just a fine mist, but I will watch that. So thank you. What a pretty collection. I’m giving up on Stromanthe though. Too much of a diva.
Great video and great collection! With over 100 plants I mist most but often skip the six prayer plants. If I notice their soil top dry while I am misting the others plants, I will hit their soil directly avoiding leaves. They remind me of duck feathers how the water seems to repel from leaves. I use reverse osmosis water from the Dehumidifier. Use containers to store water. Have Red and White Maranta. Planted the two together once year ago and it didn't go well.
Hey make more vids please! I want to watch more black plant content creators! 🙏🏼💚
They are gorgeous!!
Thank you 🙂🙂🙂
Love your collection 💚
Thank you 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you
I love your approach to calatheas. I think I was fretting over them too much at first... Now I try to neglect them somewhat. I'm happy that some are coming back after losing all their leaves.
They are very resilient. Probably some of the most resilient in my opinion.
Hii I am a new mom to the indoor plant scene. It's 2024 so not sure how you check your video's. However I got the prayerplant with the burgundy on the back of the leafs. Well most started doing the yellow crispy thing. I got it in a pot from Lowes, a taricotta plant pot. I feel doomed and I haven't over watered, but I am a hot mess. Well if you could respond would be great!! Your plants are beautiful. I love the content you put out. I tried to email through utube you have no luck. I also have a rubber tree and it's not really growing either. Yikes but I will keep on trying. ✌🏾🙏🏾🌻
Yes Queen! You were spot on about the humidity! Trying to make sure we have “Instagram worthy” plants, and will have a house full of mold!!! Most of these plants are gooood without the extra!
You have an awesome collection. Your tap water sounds a lot better there then here. My water chemicals are so strong it smells like a freaking swimming pool so I have to use rain water instead . If not they're goners. Unfortunately I had to learn the hard way
Ewww that sounds terrible. Even just to drink it sounds awful.
I still haven't gotten the nerves to get a prayer plant however your collection is gorgeous.I especially like when say what the reading is on the moisture meter.Hope you will continue to do that with your other plants as well.Very helpful care tips and tfs.
They aren’t that scary. Maybe you could try at least one and see how it goes.
@@RootingMindfully I hope you do a collection video and show each one and can you show your soils and which moisture meter please. thank you.
I live in the UK and we have VERY little light from the end of October to March, should I use grow lights on my prayer plants? Love your content!
How often do you fertilize? And what do u use?
Great video by the way☺️
I would love to see other plants
Full watch, full support my friend congratulation for big channel already.
Awww thank you
I would ❤️ a collection video. I only have the white star in this moment. It is doing well after 2 months.
Good mor ing , I live in zone 10 and I am a biginner on calatheas plants, Thanks to your video I ha e learned alot,
I will change pots to clay pot like you said in tbe videos, how i care for them in summer pls?
In summer our temprture goes up to 30 it will be very hot weather.what can I do keep them alive please?
Thank you, good day
How you gonna tease me with the thumbnail picture showing that BEAUTIFUL Calathea Medallion and then not show it in the video....lol. Quick question when you repot your calatheas from the peat moss to potting soil have you had any problems with the plants accepting a new soil medium? Great video and HIGHLY informative. Hope to hear from you. Thanks
My Calathea Burle Marx was one of my first plants and he's been doing great for over a year now, but suddenly started to droop and has been losing leaves. I've done everything I can think of except turn up the heat. I generally like it a bit chilly so I don't really use my heater in winter. Fingers crossed that this saves him.
They are beautiful. Making me want to go out and get more 😄
Thank you and I’m sorry lol
@@RootingMindfully no that is fine. I only have 17 plants to my name so I am not at the crazy plant lady/hoarder stage yet. 😁
@@jenniferthompson5146 There's still time for that ;)
Itsa herd of Maranta's!! 🌿
Wow all those plants would make a great living room divider!
I’m really curious….. I’ve never seen you talking about Fiddle Leaf Fig trees. Do you even have them ? Do you like it? If you do have them, do you have any videos about it ? I like how you explain and I was curious about your tips and care if you have them. Lol
It really depends on where you live. Test your own water by giving to a cheaper plant first for a few weeks. My cheap supermarket peace lily got crispy brown and was fine once I cut off the brown and switched to distilled. Most of the other plants are fine with tap so I only buy distilled for calathea, ferns, pilea, and peace lily.
Hello just wondering what does it means when you have a brown circles on the leaves ? I brought home a prayer plant from my moms funeral and I really want to keep it alive . Thank you so much !
If it would just rain.... Our water is super hard. Rain water feels like silk to the touch, compared to tap water. I put my White Star and my Trio-Star each in a shallow plate of water which goes under the ceramic pot for humidity. I bought a filter to try as the distilled water runs out too quick even if I just use it on the fussy plants. This is a great video to view repeatedly. Q. I test the soil, but is there a way to notice that the White Star is thirsty by looking at the leaves? Thank you. 😎 It looks like it could rain today but.... it won't.
I live in the desert with 5* humidity. They have no issues for lack of humidity. Sun and water is key…. As she said.
Well my God on today! All those plants...
do u fertilizer How often
I have well water for which we have a water softener. I’m a newbie so I have no idea what I should water my plants with. The filtered water? Or hard well water from the tap. My prayer plant is starting to yellow and feel soft.
You look great
Thank you :):):)
Learned a lot! Thank you
Aww thank you
I haven't found prayer plants to be that hard to care for either if, like you said, you get the watering right. I have struggled a bit with that..I keep getting small brown spots on the tips or edges of my Maranta leaves that have the yellow ring outlining them🤔 I'm assuming this is a watering issue, but can't figure out if it's an under or over watering problem. Anyone know what this usually means??
When I was ontop of mine, no growth, once i begun to abandon it, because I work way too many hrs, now is growing more and more and more leaf...... I water them every 1 in a half weeks, reg water because i do not have time to store the water for a week, reg dirt... and this is when it is finally growing, i have it infront of a southwest window
Perfect Sweety 🍃
Thank you 🙂🙂🙂
I have a calathea orbifolia and a rabbits foot. Both push out new growth but I’m still struggling with the brown edges smh I’ll get the watching schedule down one day😅
What state are you in? In California where I am there’s no way calathea’s will last here in terracotta pots. I have to use osmosis water here because only chlorine evaporates not any of the other chemicals that’s added here.
Yours are gorgeous mine live in my BiOrb & I don’t have to care for them at all. I just planted them in & watch them
I live in Delaware
This plant has been so hard for me to grow even I propagate the roots and give it water but it browns at the edges and all the leaves fold and it eventually dies. it's one of my favorite planst too>=(!
PLEASE HELP! I have a question: I have 3 prayer plants that are growing nicely but a couple of things are strange. My c. medallion has 4 new leaves and they all look faded in color (back and front). My c. insignis (rattlesnake) has 2 leaves that in the front are fading. And finally my ctenante b. marxii is loosing the purple back (but in the front looks amazing). On top of that they dont move. They stay "open" all the time. Do you have an explanation? A lot of people are saying that maybe its too much light, but they are sitting 1,6 mt away from a south-east facing window (whit a huge tree and a house in the front). Thank you for reading my long message.
If they are faded they are getting too much light
How often should I fertilize? The old leaves look pale and seem not to green up again on mine, but the new leaves look deep green. I've done so much wrong to the plant, surprised it still alive.
I would try one a month and use a more gentle fertilizer like seaweed or fish
I boil my water and put in a gallon jug
Well first your plants are beautiful, but you are going against everything I have learned about Maratha and Calatheas. I am with you on the lighting and pots, soil. But the water in WNY, I have to use distilled water. Also, I wait until the soil is dry before watering. I guess what works for you, definitely is working for you!
They open and close due to moisture… if the moisture is good in your home they don’t open and close as much. At least in my experience of just watching
Haha People say this is an easy plant I've been growing plants for several years now I would never give this planet to someone as a beginner plant. Pathos on the other hand are Are easy or split leaf plants are even easier to grow.
Gasp. 😱
I killed mine, left it alone and it started growing again…
I personally think they are better left alone lol
I believe you should have them for at least 1 year, to know them, and not shorter than 6 months
If I waited a year you guys probably wouldn’t get a care guide. That is a long time to remember to do one. But feel free to take or not take my advice.
@@RootingMindfully fair enough, but it takes time to get to know different plants, the thing about water chemicals, is that it can take time to show on your calatheas, it depends on how much it’s in the water
That’s true but most times you don’t need a plant for a whole year to understand it’s care. Like I said you don’t have to take my advice and this isn’t my first time owning prayer plants. I had them a couple years ago and took a break from them because they didn’t grow well for me because I failed to do research on them first.