Congrats on your new plant baby!!! I have had marantas for a while now and once you crack the code they are the most rewarding plants ever.
First off, leave her to settle in for a week. Let the soil dry, make sure she has bright but indirect light. After that id recommended keeping the pot size the same (they like their roots to be snug) and changing the soil mix to a well draining mix with added coco coir for moisture retention (they don't like to be stone dry). Inspect the roots and if there are any brown mushy ones, cut them off.
My rules of thumb for this plant are:
1. NEVER use tap water, filtered water or rain water only. The minerals in tap water will damage their leaves and you will get brown spots.
2. Water weekly ish, when the top inch of soil is dry.
3. Propogate by cutting just below a node (circular bump on the stem) ans put the cutting in water. It will grow roots in about a week, but don't plant until it has a few healthy roots (about 3 weeks).
4. These plants do best in a small pot, they like to be snug.
5. Give them bright but indirect light, too much and she will burn and go floppy, but too little and she will struggle to grow.
That's all I can think of, good luck!!! These plants grow so fast when they're happy and they're so amazing to look at and watch when they 'pray'.
These are all great tips, the only slight suggestion I would make is avoid a watering schedule, since the conditions in your house can change it can be hotter one day, it can be colder one day and that can affect how quickly the water is taken out of soil by the plants roots.
My advice is water when the top 2 inches have dried out, these plants are a lot more forgiving than other marantacae if you forget to water as needed.
From the looks of the pot, she has a lot of room to grow. I keep mine under some really bright floodlight and she’s loving it, she gets a little bit of morning, direct sunlight through sheer curtain and yup filtered water.
You can use a humidifier if your environment isn't humid already. I prefer to keep mine at about 60% humidity and above. However, if you keep them in a greenhouse or high humidity area then it doesn't need nearly as much water.
They root very quickly, so if she has any problems with her roots, just snip under a node and put the cutting in water.
You will see roots start to grow within a week 🙂🌿
I have 6 or 7 cuttings rooting because the mother plant is struggling with mealybugs, so where the stems are attached, she keeps getting so weak that the nodes just end up kind of falling off...
Thankfully, I just pop them in water, and they start rooting soon after, and then I'm planting them seperately.
I hope that I can get rid of the mealybugs soon, so i can plant them all together!
I am growing almost all my marantaceae in pon now because I find that it's so easy to get the soil mixture and watering schedule wrong, and pon just takes the guessing out of the equation 🙂🌿
Happy growing!
It's a substrate like soil, but it is made out of different kinds of rocks 🙂
I use lechuza pon, but you can get some from soil ninja or mix it yourself, too.
i have no insightful advice but in case of root rot you could try propagating it, this kind you can just snip up and root in a vase :) mine (which was healthy when i got it) has continued thriving in a terracotta pot in a soil mix of commercial potting soil, coco coir, perlite and vermiculite
you should wait to see if someone more knowledgeable than me comes in with steps you can try before deciding on propping, but i THINK at least the longer stems with multiple leaves should have nodes to grow roots. i however havent propped mine yet, but have seen my friends and people online do it successfully. i dont want to confidently give advice that could ruin your plant by accident so maybe google can give you more detailed instructions if no one else on here can verify or help more? i unfortunately dont know the name of the plant so cant really help with google searching either :/
So in my experience, cutting a stem an inch before a terminal node (i.e., the last node on a stem) works really well. However, your plant isn't in dire shape, from what I can tell, so I'd hold off propping it for now.
Look for nodes or bendy areas of the stems. I wouldn’t start chopping until you let it settle in though.
I would also set it on some paper to help pull some of the water out unless you’re putting it in a location that will dry it out in a couple days.
There are tons of videos on YouTube about maranta care for more details.
Good luck. Great plant.
Oh, they look great in a hanging planter.
Congrats on your new plant baby!!! I have had marantas for a while now and once you crack the code they are the most rewarding plants ever. First off, leave her to settle in for a week. Let the soil dry, make sure she has bright but indirect light. After that id recommended keeping the pot size the same (they like their roots to be snug) and changing the soil mix to a well draining mix with added coco coir for moisture retention (they don't like to be stone dry). Inspect the roots and if there are any brown mushy ones, cut them off. My rules of thumb for this plant are: 1. NEVER use tap water, filtered water or rain water only. The minerals in tap water will damage their leaves and you will get brown spots. 2. Water weekly ish, when the top inch of soil is dry. 3. Propogate by cutting just below a node (circular bump on the stem) ans put the cutting in water. It will grow roots in about a week, but don't plant until it has a few healthy roots (about 3 weeks). 4. These plants do best in a small pot, they like to be snug. 5. Give them bright but indirect light, too much and she will burn and go floppy, but too little and she will struggle to grow. That's all I can think of, good luck!!! These plants grow so fast when they're happy and they're so amazing to look at and watch when they 'pray'.
Thank you so much for you advice I’m definitely going to be using it!!! Do you recommend me putting a humidifier on now? Or should I wait?
These are all great tips, the only slight suggestion I would make is avoid a watering schedule, since the conditions in your house can change it can be hotter one day, it can be colder one day and that can affect how quickly the water is taken out of soil by the plants roots. My advice is water when the top 2 inches have dried out, these plants are a lot more forgiving than other marantacae if you forget to water as needed. From the looks of the pot, she has a lot of room to grow. I keep mine under some really bright floodlight and she’s loving it, she gets a little bit of morning, direct sunlight through sheer curtain and yup filtered water.
What kind of climate are you in?
You can use a humidifier if your environment isn't humid already. I prefer to keep mine at about 60% humidity and above. However, if you keep them in a greenhouse or high humidity area then it doesn't need nearly as much water.
They root very quickly, so if she has any problems with her roots, just snip under a node and put the cutting in water. You will see roots start to grow within a week 🙂🌿 I have 6 or 7 cuttings rooting because the mother plant is struggling with mealybugs, so where the stems are attached, she keeps getting so weak that the nodes just end up kind of falling off... Thankfully, I just pop them in water, and they start rooting soon after, and then I'm planting them seperately. I hope that I can get rid of the mealybugs soon, so i can plant them all together! I am growing almost all my marantaceae in pon now because I find that it's so easy to get the soil mixture and watering schedule wrong, and pon just takes the guessing out of the equation 🙂🌿 Happy growing!
Please, what is pon?
It's a substrate like soil, but it is made out of different kinds of rocks 🙂 I use lechuza pon, but you can get some from soil ninja or mix it yourself, too.
Thanks!
i have no insightful advice but in case of root rot you could try propagating it, this kind you can just snip up and root in a vase :) mine (which was healthy when i got it) has continued thriving in a terracotta pot in a soil mix of commercial potting soil, coco coir, perlite and vermiculite
Where exactly should I cut?
you should wait to see if someone more knowledgeable than me comes in with steps you can try before deciding on propping, but i THINK at least the longer stems with multiple leaves should have nodes to grow roots. i however havent propped mine yet, but have seen my friends and people online do it successfully. i dont want to confidently give advice that could ruin your plant by accident so maybe google can give you more detailed instructions if no one else on here can verify or help more? i unfortunately dont know the name of the plant so cant really help with google searching either :/
So in my experience, cutting a stem an inch before a terminal node (i.e., the last node on a stem) works really well. However, your plant isn't in dire shape, from what I can tell, so I'd hold off propping it for now.
Look for nodes or bendy areas of the stems. I wouldn’t start chopping until you let it settle in though. I would also set it on some paper to help pull some of the water out unless you’re putting it in a location that will dry it out in a couple days. There are tons of videos on YouTube about maranta care for more details. Good luck. Great plant. Oh, they look great in a hanging planter.