Sean, I got my first calathea (a Dottie/black lipstick) a month and a half ago, and she's died back significantly and lost most of her leaves bc I didn't know how to take care of her at first! But after watching your videos, I think I finally got it down! I stuck her outside in the shade where it's more humid, gave her a mixture of cactus/succulent mix, perlite, and orchid bark in a clear plastic orchid pot (to check water/roots), and rainwater from the first time it rained this summer. And to my surprise, today I found that she's pushing out two new shoots! Thank you for making calathea care so simple and less frightening! They truly are resilient plants!

When the rhizome develops in width enough you can cut it and separate the little shoots, but those underground things are tubers and merely water and nutrient storage systems, not babies capable of reproducing.The more you have the better. They give energy to the plant, they don't take it away. They're not like corms on alocasias. I've had asparagus plants grow back from only roots and tubers after being cut down but they're invasive and far less sensitive than calatheas/goeppertias and it's the only case I've heard of that happening.

I really appreciate the time you put into your videos so we can see the progress and growth!

You are, by far, my favorite plant-tuber. You are so genuine and honest. Thank you for your videos and your experiments and your successes, your updates, and also your, sometimes, brutally honest failures 🙂❤

It's so helpful to see you experimenting with mixed results. Very normalizing 🙌🏽

I really enjoyed listening and watching this video. Not only did I learn a lot, your passion and true joy of plants is contagious. Thank you!

Calathea is my bias. I am guilty of losing my first orbifolia but I’m sure I’ll try again. They are just too pretty 😍

Love seeing the time-lapse process. You always produce super informative content. Thank you for sharing.

My favorite calathea! Never had pest issues or any drama with them. I agree, they thrived when i used lighter more airy medium

Great to see how easy they propagate by cuttings of the mother plants. Mine is putting out 4 or 5 new leaves and has settled well next to a very large philodendron red Congo and micans. Like you said an aerated, jungle soil mix makes all the difference and keeping the plant moist but not wet. Love how you experiment and do these time lapse videos. Not many plant enthusiasts do this. So it makes your channel extra special. Cheers, Jo from NZ.

Thank you so much! I kept researching “pods” or “bulbs” on the roots of my goeppertia orbifolia with zero results. Google said to keep them; you’ve shown us all that they are babies 👶🏽🤗 Going to repot my babies and see how it goes. Thank you, again! 🙏🏾

I love your videos bc of the time lapse. Great effort! I’m sure you’ll perfect next time!!

Thanks Sean, now I know when I repot my orbifolia!!!

Wow, thank you! I just bought one yesterday 👍🏼😃

Как же я люблю калатеи!!! Моя первая калатея была орбифолия, вторая сандериана. Уже 5 лет живут. 😘

Hi Sean, thanks for sharing

This was fascinating! One of my favorite calatheas, which I also just killed recently. But, i love the time lapse and that you are so willing to take apart and propagate your plants with reckless abandon in the name of research! It is very helpful!

Ohh 😊 nice i am watching your all videos most beautiful calathia plant ❤

Thank you for sharing!

This was very educational. Thanks again Sean :D

Thank you for sharing! 💚

very helpful, thank you!

This was very helpful! Im sorry all those babies rotted 😢

Terima kasih mas sean Sy sambil belajar bahasa inggris juga di channel ini.. Kereeennn

My orbis is one of my easiest and happiest plants! I have a diff calathea and it’s growing like an insane beast. I live in SC and these guys live in my eat in kitchen. Very good light and def humid!

Nice plants and ideas 👍

Love all your content..your success and failures

Thanks for sharing. My orbifolia is doing pretty good inside, and with not much humidity or sun. I am surprised, but maybe it’s acclimated to my space. I just noticed that it does not care for tap water though, but sometimes I am lazy and just use the tap lol. Nice informative video as always! Really is a beautiful plant, and not pricy either!

I just repot my calathea. The roots are all tied up so tightly. I didn't know I can just tear it apart like what you did at 10:36! I was so nervous they could die. Also There are sooo many babies. I didn't know they are babies until I watched your video! I enjoy your video, great content. Thanks for sharing Sean!

My favorite calathea. Like the big paddle leaves.

Thank you 💚💚💚

Thank you!! I love these plants. I have a large one and a small one, the small one has just stopped growing, I'm going to take it outside and repot into the soil you recommend, and I'm in Florida so she's gonna get a dose of humidity!! The big one is still in the pot I bought it in, plastic and big and it's also in the house but doing better. It does dry out faster. I think the little one is in the wrong pot too. I refuse to lose this one LOL I have other Calatheas, and they are doing fine, this little one is temperamental haha

I loved mine but it died. The rising fuel costs meant I couldn't heat my home this winter and keep it above 18 degrees Celsius. Time to find some cold loving plants I guess.

Hi Sean! Thank you for your excellent Videos! I'm enjoying them very much and am learning A LOT ... from Fiji! I think those "bulbs" are called root nodules ... Cheers!!!

Thank you Sean for your sharing about Orbifolia. You're correct.. those rhizome/bulb cause my calathea grow slower. When I divided those rhizome/bulb, they back growing fast :).. I pot the rhizome/bulb and nothing growing until now (almost 3 month)...

8:55 I think rhyzomes are stems/batang that specializes to grow underground as means of vegetative reproduction. I need to check my botany books again. Those might be tubers (specialized roots) or corms (I doubt this).

very beautifull

“Someone’s been naughty naughty” 😈🌱

Oh my goodness I never new those little football looking things where the babies!!

Thank you

Mines is doing okay. It is in bright filter light and near a humidifier fan. It doesn't look like I want but it's not very crisp so it's fine I guess. They're tough. I also use systemic insecticide as well. They're indoors and not draining into the water system.

What beautiful plants. I'm in Wisconsin, USA. I'll have to see if I can find them here. Sorry about all your babies. 😕

Hi Sean, As usual love all your videos and keep them coming, On the subject of the Kalithea baubles I think you may find that what you detached and poted up was the plants food and water storage vessels in that case these will not grow at all? Pp

Thank you Sean. Sorry the bulbs/tubers didn’t survive 😞❄️💚🙃

Mine was doin well till I had to go out for a month and my parents overwatered. It was still in its nursery potting mix mainly consisting of cocopeat. It had 4 leaves when I repotted It with entirely new soil and now all of the leaves are dead but I see 5 new sprouts growing😁

So, some of the ''babies'' grew up from that ''bulb'' from the mother plant and some of them did not succeed, right? I love the fact that we can reproduce more of our favorite plants just from one single plant we had...and suddenly we have a little jungle of them..haha

P.S. I meant Anilname was correct of course!

"Someone's been naughty naughty, this plant is heavily pregnant". It made my day 😂

Someone's been naughtyyyy Ha! Love it 😀

Mine is dead. 😟 I think tubers are plant's storage mechanism.

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My humidity is only mid 30% and my lime marantas, calathea warzowikiwhatever, rattlesnake, and musaica have no issues and always have new leaves developing even in the middle of canada’s winter (hello -40 celcius wind chill..) Not sure why people say they’re drama queens 😅

I like watching your program, can I ask if you have anything about the bamboo orchid propagate. Tks

Super helpful video. I just separate my Calathea orbifolia two weeks ago, but the leaves and stems of the newly potted small ones (all have roots while propergation) are becoming very soft and can't keep standing. Have you also seen that happen?

I'm still kinda struggling with mine. Waah!

Thank you for the amazing video! Have you tried growing this variety in 100% sand?

Hi Sean! Thanks for the guide! I wonder if there's a certain time of year when it's better to do calathea division? I am in a humid subtropical climate in Nepal, but this time of year temperatures get down to 7 C. Should I wait for warmer weather to divide? Or for monsoon as you have?

"naughty naughty" ahaha that's so cute

How often do I water this plant ? Had one around 5 weeks it’s a drama queen ! It’s grew loads but a lot of brown spots under the leaves. I had to repot it as the leaves are constantly hanging down . Am now watering from the bottom. And given her liquid plant feed . Any tips on making her leaves come back up please

Keren

How long does it typically take a rhizome to grow, like the other calathea that you showed i believe you called it black lipstick.... from rhizome to leaves, how long did that take?

I have two Calathea Orbifolia plants in the same pot. One is with huge leaves and the other is really small. Is there any tips to grow such big leaves like yours? Another mystery is my new leaves always curl a bit in the edge, do you know why😣

you mention at the beginning of the video that the leaves should be dry, but throughout the whole video i see the leaves basically wet, so which one is it? dry or wet?

hi, can i soak the root ball in water to remove nursery soil when repotting? i followed your method of potting mix, but i think the soil from nursery with the root ball prevent/slows the plant from getting the full potential of the new soil

Hi again. I notice its leaves have a lot of brown edges just like mine. I live in very different climate than yours and we seem to have the same problen with this lady. Do you feel is this orbifolia giving you more of these brown spots than other calatheas? I only have 3 (picturata, amagris and orbifolia) and my other 2 are beautiful living under the same conditions 😔

Oh noooo my dog just attacked mine. Crossing my fingers that it will survive, this video will help.

Do the rhizomes need roots when you pot them up?

I loved that plant until I finally got one. It's reduced to 3 tiny leaves but at least it isn't dead

Я укореняю только во мху. Замечательно укореняются, очень быстро

What medium do you use?

Hi. You said don't mist this one and I was doing it 😳 What about picturata and amagris? Same kind of cares?

They are not babies they just hold water for the plant

I love this plant … but I can’t take care of him 😊

Killed mine ☹☹ RIP

It would've worked if you'd put a plastic bag over the rhyzomes to create humidity.

Those underground tubers are not rhizomes on Calatheas, they are water tubers, that store water, so they are part of the root, no plant will come out of it, liko on Alocasias. :)

🤣😂🤣 litle baby ???????

I gave up with calatheas

Well.. you can maybe call em gingers.. oh no the gingers died..

I cringe every time I hear your wet sticks and other propagations are just out in the rain. EEEEK!!! Hope you can control it inside and away from second person over-waterers :D