Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: Need help with proper care of Stromanthe, 1 by DaleTheGardener

DaleTheGardener wrote:
Karen,

Your 'Burl Marx' is grown as a ground-cover here in Tampa and it goes dormant in winter and comes back in the spring. It likes it hot, not just warm but hot, 80+ in the day. It can take some direct sun when it is in the ground. It likes the sun early or late in the day.

Your right about it not liking hard water, but, it will do OK if you give it some rain water or melted snow (:-) once in awhile to wash out the minerals. If you can feed it with kelp meal, mine really like that best as a fertilizer.

If it really starts to look bad I would suspect it is going dormant. Short days and cool temps are not the conditions it likes. Let it dry out completely and restart it when temps start to go up. Or buy a heat mat and set it in a tray with pebbles and water for humidity and increased warmth.

Good luck.