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title: "I bought my beauty star a few months ago without knowing how…"
description: "I bought my beauty star a few months ago without knowing how notoriously finicky and hard to care for they- I fell for her beauty ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ I originally was…"
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community: "Prayer Plant Allies"
author: "Maddie"
published: "2025-10-16T15:41:17.830031Z"
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# I bought my beauty star a few months ago without knowing how…

_Posted by Maddie on 2025-10-16_

I bought my beauty star a few months ago without knowing how notoriously finicky and hard to care for they- I fell for her beauty ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

I originally was watering with tap water but switched to room temp filtered water after noticing her brown leaves and doing some research. She’s watered once a week after I check that the top inch of soil isn’t wet. She’s fertilized every other week. She’s been putting out leaves. She has a new stem growing and at least 2 new leaves growing at the moment.

The problem is she doesn’t close up at night like she used to. She stays like this all day. I have her about 2 feet away from a SW Facing window.

Any help appreciated!

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## 5 comments

### Jennrox commented on 2025-10-16

Honestly it could still be the water. My calatheas only want distilled or nothing. So picky but so beautiful!

#### Maddie replied on 2025-10-16

I’ll switch to distilled to see if that helps. I’ve been trying to avoid it because I have such little storage space in my apartment and I don’t want to buy it for one plant. She’s so damn dramatic.

### Jennrox commented on 2025-10-16

At least you only have 1. I’m about 7 deep with calatheas so I buy it by the truckload at this point lol

#### Maddie replied on 2025-10-16

Oh believe me, I’d have more if I had space!

### Professor Sprout commented on 2025-10-16

I agree with the distilled water for watering. If planta tells you to mist it I would also use distilled water

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