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title: "Hey I was wondering if anybody has tips on taking care of peacock…"
description: "Hey I was wondering if anybody has tips on taking care of peacock plants? I got mine a while ago about it hasn’t seemed to be very happy…"
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# Hey I was wondering if anybody has tips on taking care of peacock…

_Posted by Plant mama on 2024-03-17_

Hey I was wondering if anybody has tips on taking care of peacock plants? I got mine a while ago about it hasn’t seemed to be very happy…

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## 11 comments

### Rhona commented on 2024-03-17

Have you repotted it? Is that the original soil? I know this app can help you with directions on lighting and watering and things like that. It just looks like it just needs a fresh start.

#### Plant mama replied on 2024-03-17

No I haven’t reported it or changed the soil. Thank you so much for your help!

### Sarah commented on 2024-03-17

The brown crispy leaves aren’t going to recover. Personally I would get rid of and prune the plant. Check the roots and pot into fresh soil and downsize the pot.

#### Plant mama replied on 2024-03-17

Ok. Will do! Thank you so much!

#### Plant Mom replied on 2024-03-17

I just trim off the crispy part not the whole leaf.

#### Tantalizea replied on 2024-03-17

Agreed. That way, there’s more leaf surface to help bring it back to life, then you can trim the whole leaf later on to make look how you want.

### Ariana commented on 2024-03-17

My prayer plant was having the same issue, calatheas are usually sensitive to high amounts of lime in tap water. I had to get a water filter to water them and they are doing a lot better!

#### Sarah replied on 2024-03-17

I use distilled water for my lime sensitive plants. Thankfully I don’t have a lot of them, otherwise it can get expensive purchasing for them all; or rain water.

### Tantalizea commented on 2024-03-17

Calatheas also like high humidity. They are so finicky that I left it when I moved 😅

### Plant Lives Matter commented on 2024-03-18

Whenever you see a calathea get crispy leaves, low humidity is most often the reason why. They like high humidity and having moist soil. You could try putting it around a bunch of other plants (transpiration increases humidity), getting a humidifier, or failing those, putting under glass. My calathea loves being in my mini-greenhouse.

### Anna commented on 2024-03-18

I’ve seen people have success by putting a large glass cloche over their Calathea.  
I ended up transferring mine to water because I was so fed up with it and I figured I couldn’t make things worse. She is very happy now and is putting out four new leaves. So you could always try that too.

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