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higuy

Second year 'gardening' after a first full of lessons from mother nature, hoping to fill the garden full of life and could use all the extra help!

Calathea Insignis

  • Season Icon Mid SpringMid Spring 2018
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higuy

Flash on my camera is like a floodlight 🙄

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  • Season Icon Mid SpringMid Spring 2018
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higuy

My calathea has been on a west facing windowsill most of the day enjoying the sunshine as it's been looking a little down and I've just noticed its all stuck up and frilled out. 🐡🐡

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  • Season Icon Early SpringEarly Spring 2018
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higuy

Keeping an eye on my calathea, getting these brown scars and although lots of new leaves were unfurling for a while once I brought it home they seem stunted. 🤔 hoping it's just due to my house not having heating on as much as I probably should 😅 I've been thinking of putting it in the frontroom which gets so much more light than the kitchen but it's also so much colder as it's got big old patio doors. See if summer perks it up.

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  • Season Icon Late WinterLate Winter 2018
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higuy

Nooo! 😰😰😰 Blue mold seems to have turned up overnight?! Only watered it once, a week and half ago since bringing it home! Any #help or #advice? Is blue/green fungus treated the same as white fungus?

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natii

Oh no 😐 Did you repot it or is this still the soil in which you got it? The soil in which plants are sold has often rather bad quality. I would repot it. It's often said that soil with coco peat is much better than with.. the common peat (? don't know the english word sorry 😂). To prevent mold you can aerate the soil every now and then and maybe also add some active carbon.

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hayleyaj

Try a sprinkling of cinnamon on top of the soil. It acts as a natural fungicide 😊

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moore.794

repot in fresh soil. only water when top 1" deep is dry. to wet don't water by week . water by dry @higuy

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higuy

Thanks for all the advice guys definitely does need a repot @natii hadn't done it so far as didn't want to kill it which I usually do! Lol I think the bargain store near me does the coco peat blocks so will go have a look over the weekend! Removed the fungus which was only on the top actually and have sprinkled some cinnamon on until tomorrow thanks @hayleyaj I think I am slowly but surely learning when it comes to overwatering everything 😝 @moore.794

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hayleyaj

Most plants will tell you when they need water. Wait til surface compost is dry. 😊

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  • Season Icon Late WinterLate Winter 2018
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higuy

Just to show off that pointed leaf on top 😁

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wizzpop

What a beauty. 😊

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  • Season Icon Late WinterLate Winter 2018
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higuy

Calathea Lepordina looking great

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