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Jan 30, 2024 1:34 AM CST
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Bristol
I've read that Calatheas are notoriously hard to look after, but I have has this guy for 2 years and it's somehow still alive and doing great. There are a few brown tips but it has doubled in size since I got it and regularly gets new leaves! (It's probably due a pot upgrade/split soon)
I live in UK so I don't think humidity even exists, and I only water it when I remember, maybe every few weeks (or a bit more regular in summer).
It was already a pretty mature plant when I got it - maybe that's the key!

I'm about to move and don't know if it will survive the long car journeys so I want to show it off now just in case, hopefully I'm not jinxing it...

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Jan 30, 2024 6:37 AM CST
Name: Sally
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Jan 30, 2024 7:10 AM CST
Name: Gina
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You have done very well indeed! Some Calathea don't need the high humidity. This one, Calathea binotii, is one in lower humidity. But its a large grower, tops out at about 5-6 ft tall. It seems to be the smaller growers that are drama queens
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Paddle leaf calathea like this one, Crotalifera (the rattle shaker) also can make it fine with less but it too is a large grower and more resembles a Stromanthe in the leaf blade morphology

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