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MoMo

My Calathea Warscewiczii has started seriously curling and browning at the edges. I’ve had it for 3 months and it was looking amazing. I then went away for a few days and left my husband in charge. I’m not sure what happened - he carried on with my regime - but it’s been downhill since then. This was two weeks ago. Any ideas?! I have Alocasias and Anthuriums which have done well so I thought the Calathea would be OK but… argh. So far, I’ve cautiously trimmed the worst brown bits, and realised that while I’ve been watering with distilled water, I’ve been misting with filtered water! I think this may be the issue. I also think that misting is a bit much for it and have bought a new humidifier for it. Its spot averages around 50-60% humidity so I may have been too enthusiastic with misting. I also wonder if I’ve been under watering slightly - I’m a historic over-waterer but may have been slightly too stingy. Has anyone had this, and successfully diagnosed and fixed the issue?

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  1. K

    They don’t like wet leaves, so I’d definitely stop misting, but filtered water should be fine either way, just overall. Mine responds well to frequent watering with a very dilute fertilizer. She doesn’t like drying out at all, so that could definitely be it. The fact that the leaves are curled under more at the tip rather than curled upward at the sides also points to underwatering. Tbh probably my most dramatic plant. Things finally stabilized after I moved her to semi hydro (at least stable so far 🤞) but I know that’s kind of a crazy thing to do with a calathea

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    • MoMo

      Thank you! I’ve stopped misting entirely. As luck would have it, I just built a proper plant shelf so it now lives next to two lava plants and the humidity level is 70% so I feel much better about not misting 😆 I’m also going to start checking with a wooden skewer every couple of days. Semi hydro sounds amazing but tbh I’m not quite ready for it! One day…

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