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title: "Strongly considering purchasing a Cat Palm for my bedroom in the next…"
description: "Strongly considering purchasing a Cat Palm for my bedroom in the next 1-3 days (lol) and I’ve been relying on CHATGPT on what to expect. I recently purchased a…"
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author: "CeeCee"
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# Strongly considering purchasing a Cat Palm for my bedroom in the next…

_Posted by CeeCee on 2026-08-20_

Strongly considering purchasing a Cat Palm for my bedroom in the next 1-3 days (lol) and I’ve been relying on CHATGPT on what to expect. I recently purchased a snake plant from EASY plant basically because of the self-watering marketing . But the price of a Cat palm (a full grown one is 200.00!) . So I want to just get one and purchase a watering planter myself. The thing I’m nervous about is replanting on my own once I buy it. I’m sure it’ll be in a nursery planter. I read on Reddit some people said don’t repot right away some say do to check for any disease or soil rot….so I think I’m going to repot immediately (maybe a week later). Just to be sure I have everything I need how much and what brand of potting soil would you recommend…I believe the nursery pot is 9.5 and I’m planting in a 10in pot. Any other suggestions or advice would be great

## 10 comments

### Tarsier commented on 2026-08-20

If you’re nervous about starting with palms you could get a small cat palm or something similar and get some experience before going in on a $200 plant.

#### CeeCee replied on 2026-08-20

I’m definitely not purchasing a 200.00 plant as a starter. That’s my plan to get something smaller but I’m going to have to do everything myself to get it going. The 200.00 EASYPLANT would’ve be prepackaged and ready out the box

### Nikiller commented on 2026-08-20

Any kind of palm will need high humidity to keep the fronds from getting dry and crispy.

#### CeeCee replied on 2026-08-20

I live in Texas it’s always humid here lol. But I did see I should purchase a small humidifier to help with that

### Chris commented on 2026-08-20

I wouldn’t recommend easy plant. I have a large bird of paradise and a medium parlor palm and their nice and all but a lot of money could haven been saved

#### CeeCee replied on 2026-08-20

Exactly I’m seeing that now after I just purchased my snake plant. The only selling point is that self water planter. I could get that myself …

### Waspinator commented on 2026-08-20

Please stop using AI; they're destroying rare books to train it now

#### CeeCee replied on 2026-08-20

I can honestly see that happening. I feel like I’m teaching AI to do my job where I work

#### Lil Mismuffet replied on 2026-08-21

Keep in mind this is an AI app.

I’ve had plants in my home for over 50 years … and managed well enough without having an app nag me daily!

It was fun having a sort of plant journal … but I think the novelty is outweighed by the fact that I’m helping feed not just my plants … but “the machine”!

#### Waspinator replied on 2026-08-22

what planta is doing is training a model on photos of plants to recognize species and symptoms/pests. That sort of training does not require anything language related, aside from plant names. Nobody is destroying anything to train plant recognition apps. Language and text-reading models are the ones getting trained by destroying books

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