Advise about Prayer Plant?

I heard that if you let the prayer plant bloom it'll die after it's done. So you need to pick the buds off. Is this really true? I feel bad just pickin' the flowers off when they just keep comin'. Please tell me if I really need to do that. Has any one else's prayer plant died after it had bloomed?Advise about Prayer Plant?
ours is huge... it does go dormant in winter, but I do not have time to pick off any blooms and it is fine!Advise about Prayer Plant?
Advantages Unique foliage, Not poisonous, fold up at night!


Disadvantages Difficult to care for


The Prayer plant (Maranta), also know as the Ten Commandments, has become a very popular houseplant due to its compact size and beautiful decorative foliage. The plants pale green leaves are marked with dark patches between the veins, which become darker as the leaf ages, and the underside of the leaf is a gray-green with hints of purple.





In its native homelands of Brazil, Asia and Africa the Prayer plant grows as groundcover, spreading across the forest floor from one patch of dappled light to the next. At night the Prayer plant folds its leaves up together, resembling hands in prayer, thus its more common name. Although you will never actually see the leaves of your plant moving to do this, it is a strange sight when you first notice the bushy plant of an hour ago is now standing up straight and flat.





The Prayer plant belongs to the Marantaceae family, which contains 30 genera and 400 species, of which 23 species belong to the Maranta genera. Of these 23 Maranta only three can actually be grown as houseplants, Maranta Leuconeura, Maranta Leuconeura Kerchoveana and Maranta Leuconeura Erythroneura being the most common. These plants can reach up to a foot in height, and the intricately patterned, blunt ended leaves grow to about 6 inches long. They also produce small white or light-blue flowers that gather at the end of long stems, but these are very rarely seen on indoor specimens in this country.





Although the care needed by each of the different types of Prayer plant is very similar, they are each quite distinctly patterned and therefore easy to tell apart. Maranta Leuconeura, sometimes called the Silver Feather Maranta or Black Maranta, has very dark green leaves with gray-blue markings between the veins.





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That is not true...Let them bloom. The plant will thrive on it's own.