Well it's still the beginning stages so I'm happy you found the flat mites before the situation got out of control. Regardless, the comeback on your marantas is thus far outstanding. I think the only marantas that I have that you don't are the cristata-grizzle & the maranta no ID/cats moustache.
Thank you!! Writing the names of those down now lol 🫶🏻 yes! I had a suspicion something was off with it. I wished I scanned it sooner but glad I caught it and can get rid of them!
The Maranta Kerchoveana "rabbit tracks" is a stunning plant. One of my all time favs - I just love the dark reddish-brown tracks next to the green that change colours. Gorgeous plant.
I loved this video because I am obsessed with marantas. Yours are so big and bushy, I don't know how you do it. Mine are like that and then they get leggy and I have to cut them like every month to keep them compact. I keep most of my marantas in pon. Let me tell you, nobody loves anything more then marantas love pon. They absolutely thrive in it. My favourite maranta is light veins because it exploded in pon and is now giving me huge leaves
I feel like the lemon lime and Red maranta are super easy! I have my red from lowe’s too and it is MASSIVE! I love the growth pattern how it looks like a massive ball! So cool
Also a great way to check for flat mites is to rub a damp (or even dry if it's real bad) tissue across the leaf undersides (sometimes tops). If u get a rusty residue you've got em. They spread so easily you have to eradicate them fully or they just pop back up again!
I found a nice Silver Band last month and dropped $30 on it. 6" pot with nice growth. I was so happy. YESTERDAY I found 8" pots with mad growth and huge leaves for $13. It took every ounce of my willpower to walk away. Also, thanks for the flat mite info. I'm grabbing my microscope right now.
I'm so excited! Your marantas are breathtaking; I actually got the confidence to buy my first maranta after watching your journey with your's and it's now become a full blown obsession 😅
I was afraid to repot my lemon lime but I had to and it is happier now and doesn't dry out so fast. I'm hoping it will grow. It's kinda new but it was in a small pot and was drying fast.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! What a GORGEOUS collection Melissa 👏🏼 👌🏼 And great composure at the end....you got this!! Thankfully you saw it early and it's a small enough plant to deal with it quickly. I just wanted to ask about the lighting you provide the ones NOT in your bathroom. Do you use grow lights for the ones in your plant room? Thank you for sharing your beautiful Marantas with us ❣
I love my Maranta's. I'm losing my Red Maranta so I need to check it for flat mites. (I hope not). Currently my favorite is my Silver Band. I eventually going to get the Black Maranta. So pretty. Love how big your Marantas have gotten.
The variegated maranta I found at my local nursery were about $25 and they had a lot of variation ❤ so good luck Melissa u will find another good one...
You keep saying you don’t do anything. I loveeeee that. I seem to get inspiration from your plants, and then I see mine, barely growing. Lol. I am struggling, but trying :)
I really like your Kerchoveana Rabbit Tracks. Ok, let’s be honest, I should just admit that I like all your plants! I find it amazing how incredibeaut they all are. I can’t remember not liking a plant of yours. PLANTOLOGIST EXTRAORDINAIRE in my most stentorian voice, for sure. Plantmore Estate we are there. Lol. Thanks for the video.
Your marantas are incredibly beautiful! After seeing yours a year ago, I went right out and bought a lemon lime! My question is where do you cut to remove a yellow leaf? When I cut at what looks like the node the whole stem dies back. Thank you so much for your helpful content!
@plantsbyMelissa will you please tell me what microscope you use please? I am interested in figure it out what pests my plants are getting so I best know how to treat them. Your maranta’s are absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Every single one of them is so impressive. Fun to watch your enthusiasm for your beautiful plants. Thanks for the info and teaching and sharing. -Kristin
If u ever get flat mites again try Mighty by NPK Industries (used to be Mighty Wash). It actually works on a whole host of insects. A dude at a hydro shop recommended it to my dad. He said it's really popular w/ pot growers bc it's like 98%? 99% water so it's safe for consumable plants. NOTHING ever worked on flat mites before it. They are INSIDIOUS! Wiped half of my orchid collection! But def do 2-3 applications 5-7 days apart to get new hatchlings bc the 1st time I only did 1 app and they came back 2 years later. Follow instructions (u have to apply before dark).
Found a small maranta at a big box store the other day and got excited to give it a try. It was root bound so I slightly potted it up. Any tips on how “separated” each plant/stem should be in the pot? Like spacing? The one I bought feels kinda squished but I didn’t want to mess with it too much bc I would have totally ruined all the roots. Maybe I’m just over thinking it and just need to let it sit and figure out it’s life in it’s new home lol
What am I doing wrong? I brought home a beautiful silky and silvery maranta last week and the leaves are either floppy or crusty or just look unwell. At first I kept the plant in a high humid, high temperature room (not too high temps tho) and gave it indirect light that was filtered thru curtains. Nope. Then I took it downstairs where it gets both shade and light but only moderate amount of light. Now some of the leaves have closed completely and it looks even worse. I repotted it as it was rootbound but that also had no effect
Your plants are awesome. I am trying to learn your process. I wish you would give alittle more detail on like repotting ingrents that you use. How much of what and what brand? I need to change mine. I was just using Either Happy Frog or Espoma. I did add extra perllite.
I found a beautiful Lemon Lime on Etsy and I hope she will love my bathroom also! 😅 I will have it under a grow light tho, I don't have any window in there 😅
Love your marantas, they are so lush and beautiful 😍 I think you're missing Cat mustache maranta Bad news about the flat mites 😢, I've used beneficial mites to get rid of them on my hoyas Good luck sweetie 😊 😘
Here are a couple to think about adding to your collection: Maranta Leuconeura Kim Maranta Leuconeura Mini Prayer I blame you for my current maranta obsession ;). I have seven varieties now. I’ve been putting them straight into PON and the only one that has thrown a fit is the mini. I bought another mini yesterday and it’s going to go into PON via the long method. They’re super cute. I love the silver vein and the black but need to wait for prices to come down some more. I’ll find them eventually! Do any of the predatory mites kill flat mites?!
Thank you for the suggestions!! Writing those down 😝 I haven’t thought about pon for marantas! I might try one 🤭 some predatory mites can attack them and I heard cucumeris mites can but not sure exactly which ones. I have californicus now but not sure how they do with flat mites.
@@plantsbymelissa I have to keep mine in PON. it’s the only way they stay alive and mostly happy. My ambient humidity is around 35% and I’m out of room in my cabinets. So, if I want them, and I do(!!!), into PON they go. So far, so good.
Isn't Variegata the same as Kim? I see in webshops that they sign them the same - Maranta Leuconeura var. kerchoveana 'Variegata' (Maranta 'Beauty Kim').
Hi Melissa, I have a question. My philodendron white knight went root rot. I cut rotting parts and put it in super thrive water now. What would you do? Stay in water or put in moss, pon or soil?
I'm considering changing out my marantas from soil to pon. what is the best way to start the transition 🤔 im batting 0 on successfully growing a lemon lime or red maranta. trying my luck with pon.
Your Marantas are beautiful. Do flat mites lay eggs in soil? Bought my red maranta last summer and finally found a lemon lime now I’m looking for the rabbit tracks
They can but from what I researched changing the soil out wouldn’t have much of a benefit. Here’s a great article on them: staugorchidsociety.org/PDF/Johnson-Mites.pdf
@@plantsbymelissa thank you. I still haven’t been able to see what is chomping certain plants. But know scale has gotten at my monstera and pothos so hoping the systemic granulars will kill off all those. The other thing I do is spray them almost weekly in the kitchen sink and use neem oil and also castel soap. But thank you for the nemotoads as I’m going to head that direction
What type of beneficials do you have there? Did I miss that? Next time could you please give a super close up of the flat mite damage. That photo's impossible to see. I have a weird texture in areas on different plants, wondering if that is it?? - Oh I came back and see them blowup shot. It would be good to see the damage closeup though.
I made a whole flat mites video recently and show damage and what they look like. I also have a flat mite highlight on Instagram! This photo is included in there :) I currently have Californicus mites on my plants :)
😂 exactly! Haha I think just not stressing them is important and repotting/messing with roots can be stressful! I’ll repot them all eventually here and see how they handle it 🤭
I rehabbed it in a recent video! I didn’t include any calatheas in this video just marantas. They both fall under the MARANTACEAE family but different species!
I think your new light veins is just growing roots since you up potted it. I’m curious if you were to put one of the runners off of your big plant in water if it would root? It’s so cool it’s putting out runners. 🫶🏼💚
It probably would! I just have so much experience with marantas and flat mites now I knew something was off with it! My marantas usually grow almost immediately after repotting plus the growth was super small which was unusual and the new growth was brown. If they’re not growing something is stressing it!
@@plantsbymelissa I’ve propagated my variegated one the new growth is small but no browning, might check it just to be sure. 💚 So your new light lines had mites? I’m surprised.
Well it's still the beginning stages so I'm happy you found the flat mites before the situation got out of control. Regardless, the comeback on your marantas is thus far outstanding. I think the only marantas that I have that you don't are the cristata-grizzle & the maranta no ID/cats moustache.
Thank you!! Writing the names of those down now lol 🫶🏻 yes! I had a suspicion something was off with it. I wished I scanned it sooner but glad I caught it and can get rid of them!
The Maranta Kerchoveana "rabbit tracks" is a stunning plant. One of my all time favs - I just love the dark reddish-brown tracks next to the green that change colours. Gorgeous plant.
I didn’t know there was that many different marantas. This was interesting.
I loved this video because I am obsessed with marantas. Yours are so big and bushy, I don't know how you do it. Mine are like that and then they get leggy and I have to cut them like every month to keep them compact. I keep most of my marantas in pon. Let me tell you, nobody loves anything more then marantas love pon. They absolutely thrive in it. My favourite maranta is light veins because it exploded in pon and is now giving me huge leaves
I feel like the lemon lime and Red maranta are super easy! I have my red from lowe’s too and it is MASSIVE! I love the growth pattern how it looks like a massive ball! So cool
The Silver Band is probably one of my favourites visually! I've yet to see one in my country, fingers crossed I come across one one day 🤞🏻
Also a great way to check for flat mites is to rub a damp (or even dry if it's real bad) tissue across the leaf undersides (sometimes tops). If u get a rusty residue you've got em. They spread so easily you have to eradicate them fully or they just pop back up again!
We clip those aerial things to propagate new plants. Those are the plant putting out babies
I found a nice Silver Band last month and dropped $30 on it. 6" pot with nice growth. I was so happy. YESTERDAY I found 8" pots with mad growth and huge leaves for $13. It took every ounce of my willpower to walk away. Also, thanks for the flat mite info. I'm grabbing my microscope right now.
My alocasias and orchids love my bathroom 😂.
I just got my dream marantas red and lemon-lime today. Your marantas are GOALS!!!
I'm so excited! Your marantas are breathtaking; I actually got the confidence to buy my first maranta after watching your journey with your's and it's now become a full blown obsession 😅
Aww yay!! I think they’re such a beautiful plant species!! I’m glad you love them!! 🫶🏻
This collection makes me smile😊
I was afraid to repot my lemon lime but I had to and it is happier now and doesn't dry out so fast. I'm hoping it will grow. It's kinda new but it was in a small pot and was drying fast.
They are the most beautiful specimens I’ve seen! Can’t wait for mine to reach that size..❤
Thank you 🥺
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! What a GORGEOUS collection Melissa 👏🏼 👌🏼 And great composure at the end....you got this!! Thankfully you saw it early and it's a small enough plant to deal with it quickly. I just wanted to ask about the lighting you provide the ones NOT in your bathroom. Do you use grow lights for the ones in your plant room? Thank you for sharing your beautiful Marantas with us ❣
Thank you! Some of them just get ambient light and the props I have sitting under the barrina lights!
I love my Maranta's. I'm losing my Red Maranta so I need to check it for flat mites. (I hope not). Currently my favorite is my Silver Band. I eventually going to get the Black Maranta. So pretty. Love how big your Marantas have gotten.
The variegated maranta I found at my local nursery were about $25 and they had a lot of variation ❤ so good luck Melissa u will find another good one...
Thank you!! Definitely on the lookout for one!
You keep saying you don’t do anything. I loveeeee that. I seem to get inspiration from your plants, and then I see mine, barely growing. Lol. I am struggling, but trying :)
Beautiful maranthas in your collection! ❤
Thank you!! 😊
I really like your Kerchoveana Rabbit Tracks. Ok, let’s be honest, I should just admit that I like all your plants! I find it amazing how incredibeaut they all are. I can’t remember not liking a plant of yours. PLANTOLOGIST EXTRAORDINAIRE in my most stentorian voice, for sure. Plantmore Estate we are there. Lol. Thanks for the video.
The maranta at the top of my wish list is the cristata silver sheen!
I don’t know this one!! Ahh I need to look it up! Thank you!! 🫶🏻
Gosh your maranta looks great. My red vein looks fantastic but my lemon lime isn’t feeling it 😂
Your marantas are incredibly beautiful! After seeing yours a year ago, I went right out and bought a lemon lime! My question is where do you cut to remove a yellow leaf? When I cut at what looks like the node the whole stem dies back. Thank you so much for your helpful content!
Thank you! I usually cut the leaf off just where it meets the stem or the whole part off of there isn’t a new growth point.
@plantsbyMelissa will you please tell me what microscope you use please? I am interested in figure it out what pests my plants are getting so I best know how to treat them. Your maranta’s are absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Every single one of them is so impressive. Fun to watch your enthusiasm for your beautiful plants. Thanks for the info and teaching and sharing. -Kristin
I recently purchased a black band maranta but they seem so similar to the silver band maranta. 🤔 Beautiful collection!
Thank you! 🫶🏻
If u ever get flat mites again try Mighty by NPK Industries (used to be Mighty Wash). It actually works on a whole host of insects. A dude at a hydro shop recommended it to my dad. He said it's really popular w/ pot growers bc it's like 98%? 99% water so it's safe for consumable plants. NOTHING ever worked on flat mites before it. They are INSIDIOUS! Wiped half of my orchid collection! But def do 2-3 applications 5-7 days apart to get new hatchlings bc the 1st time I only did 1 app and they came back 2 years later. Follow instructions (u have to apply before dark).
Found a small maranta at a big box store the other day and got excited to give it a try. It was root bound so I slightly potted it up. Any tips on how “separated” each plant/stem should be in the pot? Like spacing? The one I bought feels kinda squished but I didn’t want to mess with it too much bc I would have totally ruined all the roots. Maybe I’m just over thinking it and just need to let it sit and figure out it’s life in it’s new home lol
Great maranta collection! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Lovely there are beautiful.
Suprisingly, my Lowes has ones this size a few days ago! I was shocked.
What am I doing wrong? I brought home a beautiful silky and silvery maranta last week and the leaves are either floppy or crusty or just look unwell. At first I kept the plant in a high humid, high temperature room (not too high temps tho) and gave it indirect light that was filtered thru curtains. Nope. Then I took it downstairs where it gets both shade and light but only moderate amount of light. Now some of the leaves have closed completely and it looks even worse. I repotted it as it was rootbound but that also had no effect
I love maranta also!
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18:58 is there any reason for the leaves to show different patterns? Like what cause that?
The other day i got my grilfriend a Maranta Amabilis Mint, its very cute and diferent from the other Marantas
That is because Mint isn't a maranta, it is Ctenanthe burle marxii "Amagris", still a very nice plant.
@@lorettaterraneo2886 lol, I didn't knew thah, thx
So beautiful❤✨
Thank you! 😊
So what is flat mite?
Your plants are awesome. I am trying to learn your process. I wish you would give alittle more detail on like repotting ingrents that you use. How much of what and what brand? I need to change mine. I was just using Either Happy Frog or Espoma. I did add extra perllite.
I found a beautiful Lemon Lime on Etsy and I hope she will love my bathroom also! 😅
I will have it under a grow light tho, I don't have any window in there 😅
Yay!! I’m sure it will love it in there!! 🥰
Marantas love humidity
When you root them in water - how long does it take to have enough roots to repot the plants? also do you water from the top or the bottom of the pot?
Love your marantas, they are so lush and beautiful 😍
I think you're missing Cat mustache maranta
Bad news about the flat mites 😢, I've used beneficial mites to get rid of them on my hoyas
Good luck sweetie 😊 😘
Thank you!! Hoping they will be gone soon. Writing that one down now ✍🏼 I loveee the name! 😂 if I get one it will be because of your comment! 🫶🏻
I hope you'll find it and add to your lovely collection 🤞😘
Here are a couple to think about adding to your collection:
Maranta Leuconeura Kim
Maranta Leuconeura Mini Prayer
I blame you for my current maranta obsession ;). I have seven varieties now. I’ve been putting them straight into PON and the only one that has thrown a fit is the mini. I bought another mini yesterday and it’s going to go into PON via the long method. They’re super cute.
I love the silver vein and the black but need to wait for prices to come down some more. I’ll find them eventually!
Do any of the predatory mites kill flat mites?!
Thank you for the suggestions!! Writing those down 😝 I haven’t thought about pon for marantas! I might try one 🤭 some predatory mites can attack them and I heard cucumeris mites can but not sure exactly which ones. I have californicus now but not sure how they do with flat mites.
@@plantsbymelissa I have to keep mine in PON. it’s the only way they stay alive and mostly happy. My ambient humidity is around 35% and I’m out of room in my cabinets. So, if I want them, and I do(!!!), into PON they go. So far, so good.
Isn't Variegata the same as Kim? I see in webshops that they sign them the same - Maranta Leuconeura var. kerchoveana 'Variegata' (Maranta 'Beauty Kim').
Hi Melissa, I have a question. My philodendron white knight went root rot. I cut rotting parts and put it in super thrive water now. What would you do? Stay in water or put in moss, pon or soil?
I'm considering changing out my marantas from soil to pon. what is the best way to start the transition 🤔
im batting 0 on successfully growing a lemon lime or red maranta. trying my luck with pon.
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How pretty your plants are. Where do you buy the protection hang pouch on plants. Thank you dear
They are predatory mites, I order from nature's good guys!
@@plantsbymelissa and they work good?
How do you prevent yellow leaves?
Your Marantas are beautiful. Do flat mites lay eggs in soil? Bought my red maranta last summer and finally found a lemon lime now I’m looking for the rabbit tracks
They can but from what I researched changing the soil out wouldn’t have much of a benefit. Here’s a great article on them: staugorchidsociety.org/PDF/Johnson-Mites.pdf
@@plantsbymelissa thank you. I still haven’t been able to see what is chomping certain plants. But know scale has gotten at my monstera and pothos so hoping the systemic granulars will kill off all those. The other thing I do is spray them almost weekly in the kitchen sink and use neem oil and also castel soap. But thank you for the nemotoads as I’m going to head that direction
Ive been intimidated by marantas! Havent bought one yet…. Is there supposed to be like an easiest one?
I have Peppermint and Teatree castral soap. Can I use one of those and what measurements do you use for the mites. Thank you
I use any scent Castile soap! I just mix several drops with water. No certain ratios!
Thank you!@@plantsbymelissa
I saw you showering your calatheas/marantas on Instagram. Do you do anything else to clean the leaves and how often do you shower them?
I shower them occasionally just with water in between rounds of mites. If I clean leaves I just use Castile soap :)
That one is likely so happy from the humidity of the shower
Hey Melissa! Just wondering if beneficial mites will take care of flat mites?
I believe some can but not for sure which ones. I believe cucumeris mites can attack them.
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My heart always sinks a little bit when you’re looking closely at your plant’s leaves, and you stop talking. Hopefully everything is ok 🙂
your marantes are splendid I would like you to speak Italian I don't know English well and I miss your advice!!! Ciao 💚
I don’t know how to speak Italian! 🫶🏻
How did you know they had flat mites?
slow growth/they stopped pushing new leaves for no reason, markings on the leaves (scuff marks) from them eating the plant tissue
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What type of beneficials do you have there? Did I miss that?
Next time could you please give a super close up of the flat mite damage. That photo's impossible to see. I have a weird texture in areas on different plants, wondering if that is it?? - Oh I came back and see them blowup shot. It would be good to see the damage closeup though.
I made a whole flat mites video recently and show damage and what they look like. I also have a flat mite highlight on Instagram! This photo is included in there :) I currently have Californicus mites on my plants :)
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Just fyi. In the south we call marantas prayer plants. Love your cats.
Haha I call them that too sometimes 😆 I usually put in my video tags all the possible names!
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You and flat mites. You guys have had some drama over the past few months. You’ve developed healthy coping mechanisms!
Thank you! I’ve definitely had enough plant pests for awhile 😂🫶🏻
In other words .... keep it in the pure coco coir costa farms pots them in? Lol
😂 exactly! Haha I think just not stressing them is important and repotting/messing with roots can be stressful! I’ll repot them all eventually here and see how they handle it 🤭
@@plantsbymelissa in a video please with soil recipe. Lol. I love prayer plants but struggle with them immensely.
Where's your Orbifolia?
Orbifolia isn't a maranta :D
I rehabbed it in a recent video! I didn’t include any calatheas in this video just marantas. They both fall under the MARANTACEAE family but different species!
I didn't know it. In my country maranta or calathea it's same genus/name. They are called Calathea ☺️
Flat mites killed my big variagated maranta 😢
I’m so sorry 😞
I think your new light veins is just growing roots since you up potted it. I’m curious if you were to put one of the runners off of your big plant in water if it would root? It’s so cool it’s putting out runners. 🫶🏼💚
It probably would! I just have so much experience with marantas and flat mites now I knew something was off with it! My marantas usually grow almost immediately after repotting plus the growth was super small which was unusual and the new growth was brown. If they’re not growing something is stressing it!
@@plantsbymelissa I’ve propagated my variegated one the new growth is small but no browning, might check it just to be sure. 💚 So your new light lines had mites? I’m surprised.