Calathea croatii: Know About All and Care

Calathea croatii Details

Calathea croatii is an indoor plant that you can grow in your home, it is the most beautiful with its yellow flowers, which makes it completely different from the rest of the indoor plant, its flowers are yellow and broken red. Which adds beauty to this tree. 

Usually this plant is seen in the regions of Brazil and America, but now it is very difficult to find it in the forests because the climate there changes a lot, but you can easily buy it online or from your nearest nursery.

As you know, like every plant of calathea, this plant also likes heat and moisture in the soil, but the Calathea croatii plant is not kept in direct sunlight and this rule also applies strictly to this plant, you can keep it in a room of your house where there is no direct sunlight.

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Another special thing in Calathea Croatii is that when it is evening, its leaves close automatically and as soon as the leaves are opened in the morning, many people like to keep it in their home or their office and look very beautiful.  

If your Calathea croatii plant is not flowering or when you bought it, there was no flower in that plant, then there is nothing to be afraid of, within 2 to 3 months your plant will also start blooming and the beauty of this tree will increase significantly. Apart from this, its leaves are quite colorful, such as their leaves are purple in color from the outside and some leaves can also be brown, if you have already kept an indoor plant in your house or have kept a similar species of calathea, then the best of them will look like Calathea croati.

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Calathea croatii: Care and Guide

temperature 

It can grow easily even at room temperature, but if the temperature around your house is less than 16 degrees Celsius, then this plant will not be able to survive easily. And if the temperature around your house is always changing, then it will cause a lot of trouble to the plant and it will not be able to grow at its highest speed.

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light 

As I have already told you that direct sunlight is not needed to grow this plant, you have to choose a room that has plenty of light because if sunlight falls directly on it, its leaves can burn and the color of its leaves will become bad.

water

If the winter season is going on, then you should avoid watering, but if the summer season is going on, keep watering the pot, you should always keep the soil moist and keep checking whether the whey is not too dry or the soil should not be too wet, otherwise the root of the plant may collapse and always check the level before watering.

soil 

Calathea croatii likes potting compost with some peat moss and river sand, apart from this, you should take care of some other things such as using such soil so that water can come out easily and this also depends on your pot.

fertilizer

Although it does not require fertilizer, but you can use standard liquid fertilizer in a week, do not keep the fertilizer near the root, you put the fertilizer on the soil so that bacteria etc. can not be produced. 

Re-porting

You can do re-potting within 2 years or between 1 year, before re-porting, make sure that you take a slightly larger pot than the pot in which you planted it earlier so that it can grow at its highest speed.

Purling

There are a few things to keep in mind before purling, such as if you are cutting the leaves, always use a cutter and keep in mind that there is not much rust or any other problem, otherwise you can cut the leaves by cleaning them with sanitizer. If the leaf is completely damaged or is rotting in the soil or has become completely brown color, then cut that leaf, if there are very few leaves in your plant, then do not do this, otherwise the plant can also dry.

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potential problems

The possibility of getting esme pests is very high, so you always take care of the plant so that there is no spider or any other problem from time to time.

brown leaves

The problem of brown leaves comes in your tree when your plant does not get water on time or it can be due to excessive watering, so always maintain the watering.

withered leaves

This problem arises when you give wrong water to your plant or the plant has to face very dry air so remember that if you keep it in ac room or heater room and always for irrigation use rain water no ya can use filter water again