r/Maranta

Bought a loupe to admire my plants up close. Instead, I unlocked a microscopic horror.

At first it was amazing: tiny leaf textures, beautiful patterns, a whole hidden world in miniature. Then I kept looking… and suddenly: “well well well… what do we have here?”

This time around... Spider mites 🕷️. Yaaay! 😒

My Crimson Green has been in quarantine for 2 weeks after we spotted webbing almost immediately after bringing her home from the nursery. Today was treatment #2 with insecticidal soap.

A good reminder to isolate plants when you bring them to your home, and that pests have a life cycle. If you want to get rid of them properly, you need to hit every stage: eggs, juveniles, adults… every last tiny freeloading goblin. Including this chubby little menace trying to feast on my beloved Carmela.

Don’t stop after the first treatment. Keep plants isolated and continue treatment for the full life cycle of the pest; sometimes 2 weeks, sometimes 4.

Seriously: inspect your leaves regularly as part of your routine. Check for:
• webbing
• stippling
• weird spots
• tiny moving dots
• leaf undersides

Some pests are obvious (mealybugs basically want to get caught), but others are microscopic little cowards until the infestation gets bad enough to notice with the naked eye.

This tiny jeweler’s loupe cost almost nothing and has built-in LEDs, which makes inspection incredibly easy.

Next step? A dissecting microscope. I want eye contact before the isopropyl alcohol treatment 😈.

Hi guys im just excited to show a mini Timelapse of my ‘Variegated Rabbit Tracks!’ There is a cutting of my ‘Cat Mustache’ on the bottom left but it’s a bit hard to see at times.

I didn’t think she would move so much!

My maranta is thriving! Since I purchased him in late February, he's given me about 10-15 new leaves and keeps pushing out new growth. He's right next to a humidifier and has a grow light over him for 12 hrs a day. 3 days ago, two of his lower and older leaves have turned yellow and are now crispy. He's also pushing out a root at the bottom and I'm assuming he's almost root bound. I have to check the roots at a later time since the soil is still a bit moist and it would be a bit messy to do so right now but I'd like to get a second opinion. He's currently in a 4in pot and I would be resizing him to a 6in if so.

To add some context, I'm also planning on leaving home for 10 weeks for a summer internship and if he needs to be repotted, I'd rather do it sooner than later. I have my partner looking after all 19 of my plants while I'm gone but I would ideally prefer to repot it beforehand so it can adjust to a larger pot before I leave :]

Hi all! Just bought my first ever maranta, this Silver Band, from my local nursery and it was 50% off and I’m not sure why. The leaves do look pretty frail and droopy. I brought her home and repotted into a pot just slightly bigger and inspected the roots and they look fine. What should I do to help her? The soil was damp when purchased and I gave it another little drink after repotting.

Edit to add: pics were taken in the evening when the plant would be “praying” so to say, but I don’t notice a difference between daytime and nighttime, it looks like this all the time

Been tracking her for a few days ever since I saw her first flower pop up (not that I don’t check daily), it finally opened today and noticed a few more. She’s been putting out leaves weekly from 3 or 4 growth points since I got her in November. I’d say she’s happy :)

Hello,

I came across this maranta at the hardware store. Never seen such a specimen. What kind of maranta is it? The pot says maranta leuconeura fascinator, but it looks nothing like it.

Anyone knows what this is ?

2- 3 photo

Hey all. I’d like a little guidance. I finally have a successful maranta. It’s my 4th lol. I’m growing in pon and it’s been thriving. I have like 7 new flowers and I haven’t even started fertilizing yet. Still on my first reservoir!!

She’s starting to spread out a bit. But the problem is that the longest branch outs are the stems with the flowers. Like the ones with the best and most amts of nodes are the flowers. So what should I do? Should I wait for the blooming season to be over? Or do those stems make them a really great candidate for propogation? I don’t want to hurt the plant. I’ve tried in the past to water prop but had tons of issues getting roots or root rotting.

I have a fascinator and a variegated one but never seen this one… she’s not lemon lime, she has this pattern like a network calathea on it… would love it if someone could identify thank you 🥰

But yeah I’ve never bought a calathea or maranta full price… always get them from clearance and they perk up with just some water 🤣🤣

I'm pretty sure I over watered her in my enthusiasm in response to all those little leaves popping up. She seems to enjoy water but I think I overdid it. Which one do you think?

i've had this maranta since january. been following all the advice posted here & on plant care blogs. i water with distilled water, use a pebble tray, fed it fertilizer once last month, rotate the pot every day in indirect sun here on my table. im worried bc it hasnt grown at all, the leaf edges are turning brown. the stems havent grow straight up, instead hang drooping out of the pot. some leaves are breaking off the stems and the stem turns brown. i think its dying, which feels awful bc im new to plant raising and trying to do it right. 1st pic is today, 2nd is from last month. any advice?

I just got this today at Lowe’s for $6.25. I was looking for a Rattlesnake Calathea but found this instead. It’s beautiful but I don’t know anything more than it’s a maranta. Thank you and Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms.

While the green Maranta Leuconeura makes several new ones, the

Red fascinator seems to be standing still ?

She s getting new leaf every where 😊🥰

I am not sure anymore if overwatering was really my plant's problem.

The mother plant curled up today after I put the whole thing into dry substrate yesterday so I gave her water a few hours ago. The last time I overwatered her when the mother was still a baby with only four leaves, she didn’t curl up at all. I didn’t give her water for over a week then and she didn’t care. My suspicion is that sunburn could have been the problem after all. I will need to monitor the way the sun shines on my desk before I put her back there. As I mentioned in yesterday‘s post the office window blinds now work a different schedule on the weekends and seem to be up the whole day.

The three babies are probably dead at this point but the leaves of the mother plant already feel less wilted and some have uncurled a bit. I still have hope for the new baby plant though. The tip is peaking out of the soil and it looks dark green and is crispy not mushy. You can see the new baby plant a little in the last picture.

I got this in the sad plant section of Lowes a few months ago and it seems extremely happy (good light, distilled water). It seems to be putting out an air root and I’m not sure what is going on with that node - is that normal? Is there anything I should be doing?