Hey I was wondering if anybody has tips on taking care of peacock plants? I got mine a while ago about it hasnāt seemed to be very happyā¦
Hey I was wondering if anybody has tips on taking care of peacock plants? I got mine a while ago about it hasnāt seemed to be very happyā¦
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.
1 gillaNo I havenāt reported it or changed the soil. Thank you so much for your help!
1 gillaThe brown crispy leaves arenāt 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.
3 gillningarOk. Will do! Thank you so much!
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I just trim off the crispy part not the whole leaf.
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Agreed. That way, thereās 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.
1 gillaMy 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!
2 gillningarI use distilled water for my lime sensitive plants. Thankfully I donāt have a lot of them, otherwise it can get expensive purchasing for them all; or rain water.
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Calatheas also like high humidity. They are so finicky that I left it when I moved š
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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.
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Iāve 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 couldnāt 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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