Prayer Plant Care + Collection! | Calathea | Maranta | Stromanthe

[Music] hey guys it's your girl Cheyenne from plant my hobby space welcome back to my channel if you saw the title of this video the intro to this video or everything behind me right now you know that today we are gonna talk about prayer plants I'm talking myrrh anta's strobe anthe and Kalia a lot of you have commented on my videos or DM me on Instagram talking about how how beautiful a certain plan is that I show and maybe one of my halls but you know you kill every Khalifa or prayer plant that you own and I was exactly like that when I first started getting into them and I think the main issue is when you watch prayer plant videos here on YouTube or get prayer plant care tips or clay Thea care tips it's kind of this overarching you know clay Thea's like this kind of lighting and this kind of humidity and you'll be fine and then it sets a lot of us up for failure when we think we're doing exactly what we're supposed to but not all prayer plants are created equally and that's what we're gonna get into today the only thing that I think all prayer plants have in common is a they do not like to be left dry some of them can handle drying out a little bit more than others but none of them like to dry out completely they're not like snake plants or like philodendron or you know you they can appreciate drying out in between waterings most of them do not and I'll go into the weeds on that and I will say less about humidity about and it's more about water and what kind of water you're using I have a cup of clay Thea that aren't in very high humidity and they are thriving and not showing any signs of you know lack of humidity however if you start giving your Callay thea tap water or even water that you think is filtered water it's going to start browning out your plants because most of the filtered water that we have are not filtering out everything and prayer plants are exceptionally kind of sensitive to chemicals and particles and stuff in the so one overarching rule if you're gonna take anything away from this video one rule give them either distilled water or rainwater I don't even mess with giving mine tap water or filtered water or anything like that if you don't mind browning and you don't mind that look you can use filtered water if you have it and I mean it's not going to kill your plant it's just not gonna look as nice as you want it to all right so the first one is going to be this one which is commonly known as kallithea sanguine EA but it's actually Stroh manthie I've also owned the trial star and they have very similar care needs so if you are looking for the trial star just listen to what I'm going to tell you for this one this one is actually one of my less fussy ones I have very little issues with it it has a couple of Brown tips because when I first got it I hadn't started doing distilled water or rainwater but all of the newer ones don't have any Brown tips at all and mind you I do not keep this plant in high humidity it's maybe an forty to fifty percent which is kind of like the bare minimum humidity levels for a lot of our household plants I keep this one probably in like medium to low light it's a couple of feet from an Eastern facing window so it gets morning light and nothing much else after about 8 or 9 a.m. so it's in a fairly low light area but it also does still like to stay pretty moist I know we have a concern with a lot of our houseplants that we don't want them to get root rot so we tend to put them in very Airy soil mixtures and I'm just gonna say for this one it is not necessary it is still in the substrate that I bought it in because if you weren't aware Callay Thea or all prayer plants tend to massively like died on you or massively died back if you repot them as soon as you get them they love to be root bound so if they're not root bound and they've just traveled to you and you repot them that's so much shock all at once there's a few houseplants that don't like to be repotted when you first get them but these really don't want to like unless you're concerned about there being something in the soil I would really refrain for repotting them so if I get one from a seller that I trust and have purchased from before I don't repop clay Thea or brantas or any of that at all until I have to so this one is in a very very thick soil mixture it looks like it is essentially just soil and mixed with peat moss and maybe spagna moss it looks like there might be Spagna moss in there as well so it's very very thick it's not it is not Airy in any way shape or form and I keep it in a medium to low light area and it has not gone root rot or shown signs of root rot I would not be concerned with too many of your Kalay Thea's you know getting root rot or being in too thick of a soil mixture if that is a concern I'll get to it later on some of the other clay Pia's that I have but this one it's pretty easy I have let it dry out on occasion and I've noticed it likes to curl its leaves in when it does really need a watering I don't recommend you always wait till you get to that point I recommend you get a moisture meter and you kind of poke it and break when it hits dry that's when I would water it because if it stays dry for too long is when it starts to curl and if you want that kind of visual cue on when to water it this is a good plant for that but with all plants I don't recommend getting them to the point where they have to show you their cue because then at that point you're almost like stunting their growth if you have the trial star which is the one that's got the pink and the white and everything I would say almost the exact same care needs except for give it a little bit more light maybe medium to bright definitely not direct but I wouldn't worry about giving that one too much humidity either what I did have it and I gave it too much humidity the white tends to melt like on a lot of variegated plants that have white variegation if you put it too close to a humidifier or in too high of humidity it just starts to basically run off the white parts so I if you have that one basically treat it like this one except maybe give it some more light if you want to maintain that white in pink if not if you give it a medium that's fine as well it's just going to be slightly more green not totally it's not gonna revert back but it will be more green than white so it's kind of just what you're looking for but all around very easy both of them alright for the next two I'm gonna kind of talk about them together because they're almost the exact same plant and they are my Moran toes I have my red mer anta and my green Moran 'te and really the only difference between the two is how they look this one is all green with bits of darker green and lighter green and this one has red striping with a red backing and I personally keep both of these in rooms with high humidity and high light and by high humidity I mean sixty to seventy-five percent humidity and they both get medium to bright indirect light don't give them direct light because they'll start to brown out on you but I've noticed that these ones can also take a bit of a punch in the past I have forgotten to water them or forgotten a refill a humidifier that's in that room and they are one of the few plants that when all the other ones are showing me signs these ones are still kind of hanging on there again these ones will really only truly brown out on you if you give them water with chemicals in it or you forget them for a very long time I mean very very long time but if you get to them and you notice they're dry chances are if you kind of keep up on your plant care they still look fine so as much as I say these would ideally like to live in high light and high humidity they could handle an influx I wouldn't keep them at low light and low humidity for very long but they can take a punch and they'll be ok I will touch on one thing real quick that I forgot to mention in the beginning that I think also applies to all clay Thea's and that is fertilizing I really recommend you using an organic or natural fertilizer I have used both on my clay theus and they both work very well it's just kind of like what you prefer to do so when I first got into this I was using Miracle Grow fertilizer which does have chemicals in it and it's not organic and I knew from watching other YouTube videos that I shouldn't be using that on my clay the--is but that's all I had at the time so I used it they started to brown out it happened and at that point I was not in the financial state where I thought I could just you know throw money around at having different kind of fertilizers so I just didn't fertilize my clay the--is and most of them stopped putting out growth they were living they were surviving but they weren't putting out growth so I did start using an organic fertilizer I don't want to name it right now because I am testing it out right now and I'll give you a review on it later if you're okay with it looking a little imperfect and you don't feel like wasting your money on different fertilizers or you've still got a gallon of your current fertilizer you don't want to go to waste ignore what I'm saying but this video is for essentially if you want to give your clay theá-- the perfect conditions for it and matter of fact is it just doesn't like chemicals whether it's in its water or its fertilizer it just doesn't but it's up to you if you want to take that with a grain of salt or not alright now moving on to the actual clay Thea's we've gotten through my one straw man Thea that I have and my tumor and says now the rest are going to be actually Thea's and I want to start with this one because this is the one that a lot of people start out with or I think a lot of people see pretty common which is the Callay Thea rattlesnake I think it's the Lance fo Leah if I'm if I remember correctly but it's common name as the rattlesnake Alethea I got a different one of these a very small one when I first got into it and I got it because Amanda from plant arena here on YouTube said that it was one of her easiest kalay Pia's and it doesn't need high humidity and at the time I did not have a humidifier and I wasn't trying to pay for a humidifier so I was like boom perfect Kalea from me doesn't need high humidity and the mistake I made is she said it doesn't need high humidity which is accurate but it needed more than what my house at the time had a lot of houses if you don't have any humidifier at all are between like 30 to 40 percent humidity which is very low and this one can deal with maybe 40 45 % I think and ideally it wants to be at at least 50 percent humidity 50 55 now it's kept around 50 55 and like I said the last one I would cap low humidity at anything below like 40 or 45 so my house that I was living in it had you know maybe thirty percent humidity and this it was not happy now it was surviving but it was browning it was also browning because I was giving a tap water and a chemical fertilizer and it eventually died on me this one however I did repurchase it and it's just doing a lot better now here's one of the first mistakes I made with this plant both with the small one and the big one is because it was one of my first callate Diaz and one of the common care tips are that Callay Thea can handle you medium to low light so I put it in medium to low light and it wasn't growing for me at all so I was like okay I'm gonna bump it up so I brought it into maybe medium to bright light and it started pushing growth like crazy but here's where the mess-up happens when these get too much light and buy too much I mean basically any light they start to lose the beautiful dark purple backings and they start to lose the patter that they have on the top of the leaves so it was essentially pushing out leaves that were completely green on the back nope at all and very very faint pattern on the top so I realized this one is just going to be a slow grower because if you put it in bright light it'll grow fast but it no longer looks like the plant you bought so I went and I put it back in very very low light it is still technically getting light but very low light and I've just learned as long as you are keeping up on the watering and keeping up on the humidity and the fertilization it'll still push growth for you it won't push your growth very quickly but it'll still push growth for you and it'll be growth that you want it'll be growth that matches the plant that you purchased so do not give up hope and this is also one of the ones that I recommend keeping in its pot for as long as possible I made that mistake with my small one that I had in the beginning this one is also in a very thick soil mixture so again I'm not worried about this one getting root rot it's also in a fairly small pot for the size of its foliage anyways so I'll probably repot it next year I'll let it be root bound for quite a while before I repot it alright moving on to the collegia Sabrina the other ones I was telling you we're fairly easy well this one's not OK in my opinion this is the fussiest kallithea I have and let me tell you why first off it is so needy when it comes to humidity it likes the humidity okay it needs I would say minimum 60% I think I keep it in like 65 just I think I'd really keep it in like 65 right now on the dot it is such a baby when you don't give it high humidity it also very very easily is under water and over watered there is no medium with this one it is just so picky so what I have had to resort to doing is I put it in a cement pot kind of middle the way Airy mixture it's probably got a third extra perlite in it then our typical soil mixture has so it's in a more Airy pot with a little bit of more Airy soil and I've just had to come to the conclusion that I have to water it more often if you really let it go underwater all of these will droop like this but you definitely don't want it to get to that point because the second that they've gotten to the point where they droop that much it's stay drooping and I don't mean just droop like a normal prayer plant does whether you know they fold up and down throughout the day if it's just down and it's staying down you've already messed up because even if they perk back up the second you water them and you haven't seen anything wrong with them they're gonna start browning out on the edges or whatever leaf is inside the stem getting ready to come out that one's brown now - just it's it's a very hateful plant it does not it is not for the faint of heart you got to put some effort into this one and I do not appreciate it but it is beautiful so I've learned to appreciate it um it was definitely some trial and error when I first got it it was a much bigger plant than this when I first got it but it was just dropping leaves left and right and I didn't know what I was doing wrong and it turns out I had over watered it so in theory if you've got it in an airy pot you can water it a lot more often and it won't show signs of over watering but I had it in a I think it was a plastic pot it was either plastic or ceramic because I put almost all of my clay the--is in plastic or ceramic because they like to hold on to that moisture for the most part so that's what I did with this one and this is where I learned that valuable lesson not all clay theas are created equal not all of them like the same care this one needed an airy pot so if you put this one in like a clay terracotta cement pot you probably don't have to worry about over watering as much but it's still like it it's a fussy plant what I do with this one is I water it and I wait till it's a you know just hitting dry on the moisture meter and I mean just hitting dry and then I soak it all the way through and usually I even let it sit in the Sookie so that the cement pot can kind of soak up some of the moisture a little bit - I would say after I've started that method most of the new leaves have come out with no brown tips at all some of the older ones that we're still during my trial and error phase have a little bit of a brown tip but for the most part it's it's on the up-and-up now I would also say this one prefers kind of medium to low light it does like that middle ground it definitely doesn't want bright light it definitely doesn't want bright light it will Brown out on you like that if it has too bright of light but it's not like the rattlesnake that needs extremely extremely low light this is kind of that's the one positive of this one is it is kind of that middle of the ground give it medium ish light and it'll be cool now moving on to this little baby which is my medallion calathea I want to say this is probably one of the more kind of common ones that people see around I think it's really pretty it's got a really pretty purple backing this one I thought was fussier and then it is and the reason why I say that is because this one does not acclimate very well when it gets to your house so it had a lot of leaves dropping off so I was pretty sure this was gonna be like the last one that it was just gonna be a fussy plant and I was just gonna have to deal with all this drama and I almost didn't think it was worth it but it eventually calmed down it pushed a new leaf for me that leaf was beautiful and it's I've narrowed down its care so this one is in a ceramic pot and this one is in a semi area mixture it's just got a little bit extra perlite than the typical but nothing much because it is still a very small pot so I wanted to make sure it could retain some moisture because this is one of the ones that do like stayin moist pretty long I keep this one in probably low light and it really likes it I don't keep it in very high humidity actually and it has not started to really brown out on me I keep this one a probably average it's probably in about 50 maybe 55 but it's not near a humidifier specifically it's just kind of getting the residual humidity from the room and it's loving life it's I would say this is one of the easier ones if you're looking for an easy Killeen Thea this one is the Khalifa war chouette GI and i will probably never pronounce that correctly and i don't care if i miss announced it that's why I put the words here so that you guys at least know how to spell it alright I don't claim to be the perfect person at pronouncing things I just like plants okay so that's me so it'll be correctly spelled here and that's all I'm worried about but this one was on my wish list for so long this is probably one of my favorite if not my favorite Callay Thea's mainly because it's got these giant leaves that are velvet and when I say velvet I mean velvet like I just wanna I'm not gonna touch it to my face cuz I break out really easily but I just want to like pet myself with it constantly so with this one I would say it's not necessarily easy but it's not difficult either it's kind of middle-of-the-road and that is because it has pretty easily obtainable care tips you just have to make sure you get those care tips right when it comes to lighting it definitely wants to be in that like perfect medium light situation because it is both velvet and has darker foliage if you give it bright light it is going to dry out way too quickly it is going to crisp up the edges it is not going to like it but if you give it too much low light it's not gonna really grow and it appreciates a little bit more light than that so medium is kind of like the perfect middle ground and when it comes to humidity I think one thing we like to keep in mind is a lot of times when we say a plant likes humidity we put it right next to the humidifier and this is not one that appreciates that so I'm gonna specifically say this likes being in a humid environment it does not want to be next to a humidifier because this is one of those plants that if you set it right next to a humidifier or you missed it and because of either of those it's got moisture sitting on the leaves for too long it starts to brown out very quickly it does not like water sitting on its leaves so I wouldn't miss this one and I wouldn't put it right next to the humidifier where I can build up moisture on the leaves so I keep this one it's probably about five feet from a humidifier so it's getting decent humidity it's getting probably fifty five to sixty percent humidity it's just not right next to the humidifier and that's kind of its money spot and then it's in a pretty thick soil mixture and I think it prefers that this is definitely not one that likes to dry out a lot of them I think are still fussy even if you're doing everything right this is not one of those once you get it right it's happy you just have to give it basically the exact middle ground of everything this one is the clay Thea roof of Barbra I believe this one is also in my opinion like the wash yci it's kind of that middle ground it is a little bit more taller than that one but not by much so this one likes to stay moist for a very long time it doesn't like to dry out but it can handle low ish humidity I wouldn't give it anything lower than like 50% and it prefers that medium to low light situation it's got almost the same care needs as the war swatch di but just a little bit more give you know it can handle a little bit of dry you know it can handle a little bit of lower humidity but it prefers that middle ground as long as you give it that it'll be happy if you watched my Gabriela plants unboxing which is where I got this planet from I had no idea that this plate is actually like furry and fluffy until I ordered it because obviously I had never felt it before I had it in person and the leaves are furry and so are the stems and I just like live for it the only downside to that is it does kind of build up dust a little bit quicker I've noticed that most other clay theas but it's not a big deal for me I'll just clean the leaves I'm not really that worried about it I just sit here to feel it all day it is a velvet plant with fur on it and it's just like can you tell them in my happy space you know because I plant my happy space alright so for my last two I'm going to talk about them together because they have identical care needs and they look very similar as well I'll go over the slight differences but what I have is the cola Thea or befo Lia in the Callay Thea Fosse ah de / rotundifolia it's kind of known by both names looks wise here is the difference the or befo Lia is green with a green backing and it's got kind of this silvery striping on the leaf whereas the rotundifolia is dark green with light green striping in a purple back I honestly can't choose between the two if you have watched my videos for a while I've kind of explained that I loved this one so much that I wanted to order a second one and while doing my research I found this one which I love it because it's technically not the same plant but it it scratches the same itch for me and I love it care needs for this one it follows the same rules that I've been mentioning with the other ones where it doesn't like chemicals in its water and it doesn't like chemicals in its fertilizer when it comes to humidity prefer to be kind of on the higher end they can handle being in that middle range like 50 55 but I keep both of these in like roughly 65 and that are really happy in that these like very high light I give them both Western facing light which is kind of blocked on the outside so what it is is it gets bright light for majority of the day and then for just a couple hours it gets kind of dappled direct light and these guys can handle it they actually prefer it this is definitely one of the ones that if you give it lower light it is not gonna grow for you the more light and humidity you give it the bigger these leaves get like if you see these if you just Google a picture of these usually the ones you see have these giant like plates four leaves and I can see with my care that each leaf is slowly getting bigger and bigger so I know I'm doing something right if you guys are looking for any clay Thea these are actually my favorite I know I said the worst what she I was probably my favorite but I lied these ones are my fav Bay Bay Bay favorite and I can't wait for them to get bigger and bigger and bigger and they're also very fast growers they do like to be a little bit more moist I keep them in a mostly soil mixture with a little bit of perlite I do water this one more often just because it's in a smaller pot and it is starting to get root bound but this one's got a little bit more space in there but yeah as long as you give these guys boys soil bright light and medium to high humidity you're golden these ones are one of the ones that are a little bit more flexible if you miss a watering by a couple of days they're not going to totally Brown out on you they'll be okay as long as you're keeping up with no chemicals and decently high humidity solid golden cannot mess up I mean yeah you can mess up we can all mess up but they're great they're great so highly recommend these ones oh my goodness I almost forgot one I almost forgot one and it's one of the ones that people have the most problems with all right so I almost forgot one and it's one of the ones that I think a lot of people have issues with so I wanted to touch on it and it is the clay Thea white fusion and most people get these and they die immediately lose all their foliage these ones do not do not acclimate but this one I will tell you right now died back to having literally no leaves for me and because I have this channel and I like to experiment so that I can give you guys you know some decent knowledge I did not give up on it and here is the conclusion I came to when it came to to care and how to kind of prevent all the issues that it has is one it likes medium to low light and it likes medium humidity this is one of the ones that does as much as it has you know white on it and it's a thinner leaf one everybody thinks you know you got to give it high light with high humidity and I disagree because it's just gonna Brown out on you so quickly if you do that so I give this one it's like in medium to low light and it is kind of just as far back as the worst west see I it's like five feet away from a humidifier so that it's not getting any direct you know moisture on the leaves and it has started to recover and all I recommend throughout the entire process if you're doing what I'm suggesting and things are browning out or you're losing leaves is to just keep cutting just the dead parts what I mean by that is if you have a leaf that's starting to brown out on one side of it cut off just that brown part if you have a leaf that's dying completely but the stem is still green just cut off the leaf and keep the stem because it'll eventually forgive you and start growing solid leaves and those leaves the longer you have it and the more that you do this will be acclimated to your home in the environment that you're giving it so do not give up on it don't just throw your clay fee away the second that it looks bad because most clay theists will do this to some extent this one is just in my opinion the most dramatic when it comes to it I haven't even been showing you guys the good side this is one of the ones that likes to be a little bit more moist but it still wants some drainage it's not like sanguine ei where it's literally sitting in moisture constantly and love in life this one can be pretty easily over watered kinda but in my opinion if you've got it any ceramic or plastic pot with just a little bit of drainage meaning it's got a drainage hole and just a little bit of perlite in the soil you'll be good just don't put it in like the thickest mixture you can find because that's where you're gonna go wrong all right that's it for me guys I'm hoping this helped some of you I know some of you comment on my videos telling me that you suck with clay Thea and prayer plants and like trust me I get it cuz I was there so I'm hoping this helps you because these are the things that I have learned you know in my trial and errors and I'm sure a lot of you guys have already been through the air portion already been through the trial portion and you just want to get to the light at the end of the tunnel and see a beautiful prayer plant and hopefully this gets you there alright guys I will see you in my next video comment down below which kind of plant species you think I should do next for care tips and if you guys have any video ideas on what you want to see please let me know I am open to suggestions like I'm here for you guys you know I don't want to put out lame stuff that you guys don't want to see so if there's something specific that you're like I want to see a plant tour I want to see you do a video on propagating or philodendron or I don't know macrame or whatever it is you want to see you let me know and I can oblige okay because that's what I'm here for I'm here to make your day so I'll see you guys in my next video comment down below please subscribe if you're not already and then follow me on instagram at playing my happy space I would really appreciate it but for now I'll see you in the next video peace out [Music]

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Keywords: prayer plant, prayer plants, calathea, maranta, stromanthe, care tips, plant collection, plant care, calathea care, prayer plant care, calathea orbifolia, calathea fasciata, calathea rotundifolia, calathea white fusion, rattlesnake calathea, stromanthe triostar, stromanthe sanguines, red maranta, green maranta, maranta leuconeura, calathea warscewiczii, rare houseplants, uncommon houseplants, houseplant care, how to take care of calathea, save my dying calathea

Id: 1Kj69cHjBKQ

Length: 33min 6sec (1986 seconds)

Published: Sat May 16 2020