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title: "This was the last Calathea I had that I hadn’t totally killed.…"
description: "This was the last Calathea I had that I hadn’t totally killed. Started using distilled water. I wish I had done it sooner 😣"
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community: "Prayer Plant Allies"
author: "MicAZ"
published: "2025-11-08T18:35:26.827775Z"
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# This was the last Calathea I had that I hadn’t totally killed.…

_Posted by MicAZ on 2025-11-08_

This was the last Calathea I had that I hadn’t totally killed. Started using distilled water. I wish I had done it sooner 😣

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## 6 comments

### skylar commented on 2025-11-08

what water did you use before, tap?

#### MicAZ replied on 2025-11-08

Tap, but with a conditioner. We have really hard water.

#### skylar replied on 2025-11-08

i’ve used distilled water with all my plants cause i don’t trust the water, i think ours might be hard too. anyways i got my first calatheas on the 27th and im very new to plant parenting, one of them is thriving and the other one has some problem areas, people say they are very dramatic 😭 so im scared to kill mine lol

#### MicAZ replied on 2025-11-09

Most dramatic plant I’ve ever had, lol. I had 4 now I have 1 😳

#### skylar replied on 2025-11-14

my pin stripe calathea is wayyyy more dramatic than my calathea musaica. she’s thriving compared to the first one. and i bought them together smh. one always has to be more dramatic i guess 😭

### Carla commented on 2025-11-09

WOW that’s amazing, it’s beautiful. I water mine with tap that isn’t terribly hard and they do pretty well, but now I’m gonna try distilled and see if they do even better! 😀

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