How to Care for Alocasia | How My Elephant Ear Plants THRIVE!
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- You guys have been asking me for this video all year long! Here it is, here is how I care for my alocasia!
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The most helpful vid on these plants, it’s good to find someone who gives you useful info instead of just telling their life story and jokes . I love this channel
Thank you!
Yes on the spotting spider mites please
I just got myself a new Alocasia today and watched your video straight away. Thanks for all those detailed tips! ;-)
No problem!
I just got my first bulb and I'm so in love with her. She has two leaves right now hopefully I'll get two more. Love your content, thank you 👏
Thank you!!
For spider mites mix neem oil, peppermint oil and dawn dish soap to emulsify the oil so It will mix with water. I add the neem oil if I have an infestation. I use the peppermint oil, dawn dish soap, as a preventive measure. Spray entire plant, soil, container. Been using this method for years on my cannabis plants. Spider mites are hard to get rid of. Most people never do unless their plants die or they move. Even moving they can still follow. Best is to never have them in first place. Great video my first elephant ear plant and it's got 5 leaves. Gets all my left overs from feeding my other plants. It's dry 30-40% RH and 18-20c in my house still does fine
Thats awesome! Spidermites are challenging for sure
peppermint oil as in essential oil?
I successfully treated spider mites by plucking the real bad leaves and spraying rubbing alcohol on the rest but it was tough.
so right off the bat i'm relieved to know you're from michigan because i'm in wisconsin and i worried so much about killing it due to how cold our winters get. i bought a beautiful black velvet alocasia and she's putting out new growth for me she has 7 leaves
Welcome!! Happy to be helpful!
So true. I had an alocasia with 5 leaves that one of a sudden kept loosing it's leaves til' there was only one left. And now I got back to three leaves :D
Yes to a spider mite video! I love alocasia but they don't always love me lol. Admittedly, I've killed a few but I'm getting better and want to collect more. I bottom water when almost dry and they seem to prefer small, tight pots. And the more mature they are when purchasing, the better. Btw, another Michigander here 💚
Hi Elizabeth, you are so good at this, such an informative video. I have developed a fairly new obsession with Alocasias, however, my tip is that they love light. Your cat is gorgeous. Really enjoy this vid with my morning coffee.
Thank you so much 💓
I just bought an Alocasia and it has a new leaf, as soon as I brought it home I wiped down the leaves but now the leaves kinda wrinkled haha so now I’m researching 😅 should’ve done this before, I’m so excited, thanks for the help!
I've noticed that mine really like leca. That seems to be the trick to keeping multiple leaves. And I still keep it near the humidifier. I just placed my ebony, culrea, and frydek in leca, and they seem to be doing well. My variegated elephant ear usually have 6 leaves (with the oldest dying while a new one comes in). Great video, lots of information 🥰
swamp cooler gang where you at!!!! forreal though my black velvet alocasia has 5 leaves
This video is very informative. Your tip on the 2 leaf is very similar to my experience. I recently got 2 Colocasia plantlets (which are notorious for leaf sacrifice). I decided to put one inside a humidity dome. The one without was growing fine until a new leaf come in, then two older leaves dropped immediately. The one in the dome not only maintained its leaf count (there were 4 at one point), but it sized up significantly. Each leaf getting 50% larger. Anyways, it still isn’t out of its juvenile state, but so far so good. No root rot. And no need to water much because it doesn’t dry out fast.
I bottom water mine and they seem to be happier that way. I also have my Mickey taro in leca and it looooooves it. I ended up transferring to leca bc it just wasn’t happy in the soil mix I put it in. Now it’s growing great and putting out bigger leaves. Also, captain jacks bug brew has been the best on keeping spider mites at bay for me!
I've not tried lecca with alocasia! Great to know your plants enjoys it!!
It’s nice to know I’m not a bad plant mum and there just fussy 😂😂 but I think it’s starting to turn a corner xx
I’ve just cleaned my Alocasia frydek it had mites and my Alocasia sarian. I’m sick of them lol. I’m sure they came from my lemon tree I purchased from the nursery lol 🙈. I find a make up brush is good. 👍🏻.i use fairy washing up liquid and neem oil. Great video Elizabeth.👏🌱💚🦀🕷
I’m from uk
Hi ... I have saved your video as I have alocasia plant. This is a first time for me to have one so when I bought it from the nursery it had 2 big leaves and one baby one. I lost the 2 leaves as nursery informed me that one was due to not keeping proper supports to each one when they are growing and getting heavier which tends to bend as the stem retains water. Secondly I move it to a less warmer area and low light area specially during summer. Now it seems to be happy growing as I thot I lost all of it. For the first time I have 2 baby ones growing from my house. So happy.
The support is my issue. My biggest leaf’s stem has recently gotten so long that it bent and I think it’s gonna die. I wish I knew how to save it/support it. Been looking up videos on YT for days and I’m not finding any videos on that🥺🥺
I've not seen this issue. Is the stem soft at all?? Its hard to tell based on your description but I'm not sure thats a normal problem and it makes me wonder if the stems are too soft due to over watering? Food for thought
Yes a cleaning episode would be great. I am new to the elephant ears planting
Yoo Thank You Ma'am!!
If you were my neighbor, I would probably be the creepo neighbor; always popping up from around corners, just to ask another plant question! 🤣🤣🤣
I have Pugalistica Dementia, so I forget things so fast. Yep, I'd be waiting for you to get to your door, then I'd pop out and say HEY, I GOT A QUESTION ! LMAO
Oh gosh, sorry!
But seriously, THANK YOU so very much for simplifying a few things. That tremendously helped. I am a cacti guy, and I have never had a house plant before, so I got a Black Stem Alocasia.
Borneo King Alocasia, and the
Thai Giant Colocasia. My kiddoes don't have a clue what's coming. LoL .
They are baby plants, and was seeing the first signs of "something" the first day after they had shipped for 4 days.
The tips is the leaves began to cuve downward. It is incredible to see sooo many people having different ways to care for them, making their way the "law".
I ended up finding video answers from a company that produces hydroponics for Marijuana plants, and collectable house plants.
My Black Stem is the smaller of the two, and it came in, leaning to one side, turning its underside (belly) upwards. That was the coolest thing to learn why plants do that. 😁
Yo, you amd your plants have a wonderful holliday season!
Good tips Elizabeth!
I struggled with the leaf curse for a couple years before finding a fertiliser that they seemed to like better. With all else (soil, water, humidity) staying exactly the same, they started keeping older leaves whilst putting on new growth too. So that's maybe something to look into if people are struggling with that problem. But I agree with you, it's the whole package; if they don't like one thing, whatever it may be, then they will keep on dropping older leaves as new ones come in.
That's awesome! Mind sharing the fertilizer you use?
@@ElizabethPlants it's Marphyl Soil Enhancer. I mix it at half the recommended dose and use a little after each watering during the growing season. They seem to like the marine source of nutrients.
They also like fish emulsion
very helpfull! and you have gorgeous Alocasia 🥰 I was afraid to overwater. I'm using Seramis (it's like small Leca bits BUT who can detain moisture) and they are happy and getting so big. I killed my Frydek who was in soil (my first root rott) and now the Rhizome has new growth points. Lesson learned, I'm sticking to Seramis for plants who need more moisture.
Yeah, thats a great idea!
I use a Neem oil solution sprayed on both sides of the leaves and it seems to work really well on spider mite infestations.
Great video! This is just the info my new elephant ear wants me to know. Thank you!
Thanks for uploading this! It was just what I needed as I have a struggling maharani
The comments have great insight as well
Thanks for the video currently trying to save an alocasia wish me luck
Good luck!
Spider mites like a very dry environment. I mist all of my plants once a week with a mister that has a fine mist. Mites won't stick around. I've had them once on a plant and then sprayed the plant with soapy water, which drown the mites. Since then I just mist the leaves with water once a week. The plants love it.
Thats awesome! I mist mine occasionally but the way my apartment is built just sucks the humidity out of my space unfortunately
@@ElizabethPlants all the more reason to mist them more often. I don't have a humidifier so that's why I mist mine often. Cheaper.
Fertilizer, I'm in Florida and in the rainy season [summer] I put a 2 gallon watering can of Miracle-Gro by direction about once a month but that's about 3-4 feedings in 4-5 months. I do nothing for about 6-8 months. Its sand down here and water runs right through it. I water about ever 1-3-6+ days in the dry season [winter] and nothing in the wet season[summer]. I just got my first blossoms. Its only my second year of growing.
Great video. I appreciate you for mentioning where you live! That is important
Thank you!!
I don't have trouble with only two leaves and I think that problem is not enough nourishment these plants have huge leaves and that takes a lot of nitrogen phosphorus and potassium to grow those big leaves and if they're anything like orchids they need calcium and magnesium also to grow all those cells in those big leaves. I'm a big user of those fertilizer sticks that you can buy at the big box stores are at Dollar Tree in the spring. I also after I water my orchids once a week or every 10 days use the leftover nutrient solution they soak in to water my plants. In my alocasia and colocasia and caladiums I plant outside I use a generous amount of osmocote in the potting soil. They need nourishment to grow those big leaves and the reason why they lose a leaf to gain leaf is there moving or recycling the mobile nutrients into the new Leaf because there's not enough that the routes can take up in the soil. Magnesium is also a mobile nutrient and it can be given to them by putting a teaspoon of Epsom salts in a gallon of water. Calcium know the only way you can give that to them is by something like Cal Mag that you can buy on the internet it's a liquid nutrient solution you can add to your watering practice. Read the label you have to add it first before any other fertilizer. Calcium is an on mobile nutrient it has to be given to the plant. It can't get calcium by eating up or recycling an older leaf. I never used osmocote before but since I started watching Maria's Garden on TH-cam with her succulents she's a great believer in it and her plants that she raises for her Nursery she doesn't get plants and she raises all her stalk herself do really well. I'll buy the biggest bag Lowe's has because that's the cheapest way to buy it buying a little bag is way more expensive. And the thing about time-release like osmocote the warmer it is the more of the fertilizer that's released and the cooler it is the less is released so it's still good to every once in awhile give them some Miracle-Gro. The nutrient solution I use for my orchids is weak it's 1/2 to 1/3 the usual amount recommended on the label.
I've never heard of osmocote, but I agree with the importance of fertilizing!!
@@ElizabethPlants osmocote is those little round pellets of fertilizer you see when you buy a plant at a nursery and look at the potting soil. It lasts about six months and it's slow release and it's an even number like 10 10 10 so everything is great. I love it I've only been using it for a year but every time I mix up potting soil for my plants I use it and I can tell the difference. It can even be used to top dress. Smaller Regal Shield I planted this year and a bigger pot outside this summer is as big as its mother now and I think it's all thanks to the osmocote. You can get it at Lowe's it comes in a plastic bottle in the smaller size but if you buy the bigger size it's much much cheaper even though instead of being about $8 it's 20 something but you get so much more for so much less money. And I still fertilize with the leftover nutrient solution are fertilized solution after my orchids soap. That solution has Cal Mag in it and seaweed in emulsion not fish Emulsion that stuff stinks and epsom salts micronutrients and a fertilizer for orchids sometimes the nitrogen number is higher and sometimes the phosphorus number is higher and every once in a while I use a Miracle Grow and I guess is for tomatoes maybe that has the third number higher the potassium.
Ahhhh never heard it called that. Ive actually had poor luck with it, maybe what I had was a dud? Its been years since I tried it. Recently I've been using fish emulsion and they love it!
@@ElizabethPlants I don't like the smell of it plus I read somewhere that the fish Emulsion fertilizer is now contaminated and since I water my orchids first no one suggested using it on Orchids. Put the seaweed in motion fertilizer or nutrient solution is a great addition to plants. There's hormones in the seaweed Emulsion fertilizer that help a plant grow leaves roots and blooms. And there's also Trace elements and some phosphorus the solution. Is seaweed that it's made from can sometimes grow a foot or two a day. My orchids and then whatever they don't use up in the solution they soak in the other plants love. in fact I plant pansies over the winter and they grow lots of roots over the winter and then Bloom fantastically in the spring much better than spring planted pansies. Since I started to put the leftover Orchid nutrient solution are there also every once in awhile during the winter they had twice as many blooms and more twice as big then they usually were.
Fellow michigander here. Thanks for these tips. I got my first alocasia (zebrina) today.
Thank you, great information and beautiful plants
Love these tips. One question I have is what size pot for the big elephant ear? Is there too big for them? Wondering if that is my problem.
This was so informative. Thank you.
Np!
Yes I would like to see how you it .Thanks 😊
This is my second plant. I think these plants are beautiful and want to have one in my collection, so I am trying again. Your info is very helpful! Thanks
I hope it helps!!
My local Calloways started bringing in these plants for pretty good prices for the size of them.
You’re the best, thanks for sharing!
Hey michigan! I live in Florida but born and raised in ypsilanti/Ann Arbor
thank you, ive been stressed. it is supposedly kind of rare. don't know what kind it is, small leaves. very thorough information.
They are so beautiful!😍🥰
Yassss!
The place is looking nice and jungle like 👍🏼. Great info here
I really enjoyed this video. Very informative. I inherited an alocasia poly when my Mom passed away. I inherited the green thumb from my Mom and am so happy about that. Getting back to the poly. He was beautiful when I got him a year ago and slowly lost all his leaves by this past summer. I was going to throw him away but wanted the pot so when I dumped him out he had a beautiful root system and big bulb. I decidedly to make a self watering pot and plant in pumice. He's been in pumice for 4 months has2 leaves and is thriving . So I just bought a Maharani. He's not happy and dropped 2 of his 3 leaves. He had gotten a little frost bite on his trip from Louisiana to me in Michigan but after watching your video I'm thinking he just needs to acclimate. Do you think he'll be ok because I planted him in the same setup as my Poly. Sorry for rambling. Thankyou for all your insights
I agree with everything she's said. I grow plants as well and alocasia and calatheas are my specialty. Alocasia aren't as high maintenance as some say. Only thing is they need humidity to really thrive and grow big indoors. I have to run humidifiers and fans. That they need to really thrive.
I have a guy that i had FINALLY gotten to spit out a new, shiny, beautiful leaf, and then i had a bout of depression and wasn’t taking care of my plants well enough and the poor little thing shriveled up and crunched away🤣🤣
Great video. I'm able to keep Alocasias alive as well. I also have pests. I'd love a how-to spot video because I allow spiders to live in my home so I get webs on my plants from spiders too and I'm not sure how to spot the spider mites. Thanks for this video.
The way you tell the difference between an alocasia in a colocasia is an alocasia the leaves point up towards the sky and a colocasia believes Point down towards the ground. They're both elephant ears and caladiums are in the elephant ear family also. And yes they are arrowheads and my Regal Shield mother a five babies I removed all of her babies last year when I repotted her when she outgrew her Nursery pot. Now one of her babies is as big as her! And she has another baby but I don't want to repot her because it's the end of the summer. I wanted to say she bloomed last winter when I brought her into my bedroom and it was a beautiful white lily like flower but at night it stunk like a cat. So I had to cut her flowers off whenever they bloomed I'm going to give away one of her babies at the beginning of November as a giveaway on my channel to my subscribers. I love my Regal Shield I have to unnamed alocasia and I have quite a few colocasia. I really love the colocasia with the black leaves and I bought a couple from Brian's tropicals one of them is called Pharros mask and it's just gotten to be a nice size here at the end of the summer. I'm going to try to bring that one in for the winter. You can let the colocasia go dormant over the winter and leave them in the soil or the pot there growing in but don't let the soil freeze I kept mine in the garage Last Summer last winter I mean. Alocasia if they go dormant are hard to get them to re-sprout so I bring my alocasia in for the winter
I have good luck with re-sprouting with alocasia in my greenhouse! I think thats because its warm, bright, and humid
Very informative! Ty
Alocasia is my favorite houseplant. I'm waiting for a silver dragon to arrive. It didn't cost a ton of money, but more than I normally spend. I'm a little nervous about keeping it alive even though my others are doing well😬
Mine is fairly easy, lives in my greenhouse
In my experience if you dont get more than 2 or 3 leaves, give it more light and dont let the soil dry out completely
I can't speak for the light issue from my own experience but that would make sense
Fabulous, informative video!
Please, do a detailed video how you clean plants.
Good video! Good advice.
it’s all about dem pups grrrl
except when raja is around, then it’s clearly all about raja 💅
Fascinating! Mine likes to be dry before watering. If I water too early it will drop a lower leaf.
Yes,its a fine line between drying and watering too early for sure. They have to dry out enough to avoid root rot
Hi! I got my Alocasia like a month ago and i’m noticing some leaves are starting to turn yellow and the leaves drip water sometimes. I water it once a week or whenever I notice the soil feels a bit dry. Is there something I’m doing wrong? I keep it in my bedroom and I often have the fan on and window open. It’s not in direct sunlight but my room gets sunlight so I’m not sure if that’s an issue? Hopefully you see this so you could give me advice on what you think I should do. Thanks
My alocasia that I keep outside for the summer and bring inside for the winter there leaves are much thicker than the colocasia and I've never had trouble with spider mites. Now my colocasia one particular one that I bought last year at Lowe's and it's called black something and I can't remember the name it has a dull black color to the leaves and all the little baby ones because that colocasia grows by runners and I must have a dozen babies from last year that sprung up everywhere the mother plant died I think it was too close to the garage door instead of the back of the garage and must have froze but apparently all these little Roots didn't and they grew babies. But they drive me nuts with spider mites and I spray them every once in a while with alcohol. My other colocasia outside don't seem to be bothered for some reason but they have shiny leaves so maybe shiny leaves spider mites don't like I don't know I think it's weird where some get the spider might even outside and some don't
Its amazing which plants the mites choose. I have 9 alocasia on 1 shelf and if I have a bad breakout, like 6 of them will get mites and the other 3 will be untouched despite being so close together
all my alocasias (3 of them) are in jars with leca, so basically, they are always in water, and always dry at the same time, and they are all grouped together, and each plant (6-7 plants, three species) all even the youngest one, all have only one leaf. As soon as new leaf pops out, the previous one goes yellow and flops and is done for...
so I don't think it's humidity
I'm also unsure how to fertilize them, considering they are sitting in water, but next time they need to be topped off, I'll add really diluted fert, just to see if it does anything at all
I put them in the leca after seeing a video where a girl was explaining hot to root cormlets and she found that to be the most reliable way, and all her plants had many leaves, and two I had at the time, both had 0 leaves. She said make it so that bottom half is always in water, and upper half always dry, and that's what I do, and it seems to work so far as to them having one leaf at the time, but not beyond that...
wow my alocasia has 7 leaves! I didn't know that was uncommon!
It can be hard to do, it is where I live. Thats phenomenal!
I’ve managed to keep my seven leaves also I live in MI treat it like I do my other plants. I have two Alocasia Polly
Thank you so much for this video! I’m a new plants and I adore Alocasia . I have a Frydek, Black velvet and currently waiting on my Pink Dragon. I purchased self watering planters because I’ve learned they like their soil to be a little more on the moist side.
Do you know if they like leca?
Not personally but another commenter had a good experience!
Do you use a dab of dish soap in your misting/watering water? My great-uncle used dish soap for 30+ years of no pests
I have, though I don't do it every time
thanks for making this dude it was really comprehensive and helpful ! 💚 i was wondering if you've had any success growing from smaller plants? do ok with them when i start with a plant with a bulb idk 2 thumbs sizebut anything smaller and i kill it instantly
I have had good luck but they require more attention for sure. Thanks so much for watching :)
what about pot size and when to put them in a bigger pot? indoors... ive been growing a couple since the beginning of April 2023 and they have 5 sprouts in each pot and ive been keeping them covered in plastic for humidity and i water them every 4 days just wondering when to up size the pot as they are getting bigger every other day. thanks.
spider mite detection video plz!
I recently took a cutting from my plant but I tried my best to get the roots but damaged a little from the cutting so I have it in water to grow more roots before potting it
Oh no! Hopefully it's okay!
im planning to put a giant elephant ear into my koi pond once the air temperature doesn't get below 50. It is in a grow bag that is 12" deep by 16" wide . and the tuber is 9 inches so it has no depth below the tuber. once it awakens in my house I will put it in the pond to were only 1"-2" inches of water are covering it. I live in Maryland and my heavily stocked koi pond is in partial shade. I've just used topsoil for the giant elephant ear. should I change my set up? thanks for posting the video!
Hi Miguel! I am actually not too familiar with potting up in the way you are. I'd recommend reaching out to a local place who has more understanding of your environment and pond planting
@@ElizabethPlants okay well thank you for the quick reply! I'm pretty sure it's okay. It's common for taro to be planted in ponds but they are treated like bog plants to where the top of the soil is about 1-2 inches from the top. I'm glad I didn't do anything abhorrent.
I have pups, and pups too drop an old leaf as soon as new one emerges... so, are they happy, or are they miserable?
I lost three leaves of my alocasia from the bottom one by one I found something like fungus by the back of the leaves when I checked for and cleaned it with neam oil I sprayed it with fungicide and sprinkled some backing soda on the soil didn't work I don't know what's wrong
Hi I had a question,
I found some outdoor elephant ear pups and dug them up with the bulbs and was curious to know can i place the root and plant in a glass of water until i see more roots or does it immediately need to be soiled? BTW I dug them up because the house is about to me demolished so i figured i could save these babies.
I recommend soil in this case since they aren't going far and are already adjusted. The goal is as little shock as possible
@@ElizabethPlants okay thank you!
Do you know why my stems are wrinkled and then the large leaf flops over? I can't figure out if it's over watered or under watered. 2 leaves are flopping/bent over and one is slightly turning yellow, one is fully green. However, both stems are wrinkly.
I recommend checking your soil. I cant know without knowing your plant, care routine, and environment
I just got a alocasia dragon scale and I’ve only been into plants for 3 weeks. I’m worried I’ll kil it
I would of had 3 leaves but it fell and broke one when I was cleaning it.
Love this🙏🏻🙏🏻
Oof she said sum breeding ground for spider mites I instantly ran to clean my plant twice
Haha. Me too! Right away lol
Thank you ❤️
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Currently have a variegated alocasia odora and my god she’s giving me trouble. Every time a new leaf comes in one dies :/. But it doesn’t just die it gets really soft, falls over and turns yellow. When my plant started out each one had 3+ leaves….now one stem is down to two leaves and the other is down to 3. It’s driving me insane making me think I’m doing everything wrong. So hopefully upping the humidity helps. I hate seeing her like this.
I had a variegated one with similar problems and I changed the humidity by switching its environment and then out it under a grow light and now its growing like crazy. So I say give it a shot! Also try allowing it to dry out just a tad more than normal in case the yellowing is sign of root struggle
My elephant ear when new leave grow the oldest one starts turning brown/yellow and dies in one week time.
I really dont know what to do :/
Great video. Question: I have a small black velvet and a small dragon scale. They are both in terrariums but how long can they stay in them? I am hoping to keep them in there until they get too big for them. Thoughts?
I've not tried that option, but I'd say your plan sounds solid! I'd be gradual when moving them out of the Terrarium though
@@ElizabethPlants could you elaborate more on how I would do that?
You don't want a humidity shock for them. How you would do it gradually depends on your Terrarium
I love your videos and am considering subscribing. I do have a HUGE question I am yet to have answered and also effective. I have a few but the small version (growing no more than a couple feet high) just regular, I forgot the genious name, simple elephant ear. BUT, the dog gone thing pushes out so much growth that is long and heavy so it is always drooped over. It gets constant light from above the crown so is not searching for light, its watering has always been the same, but is always drooping! Should I not allow a certain amount of leaves to come from each plant or is this a problem I can solve by prunning another way? I would love any advice!
I just got my first one, I noticed one of the big leaves has rip by the vein.. How would I take care of that?
i use neem oil against spider mites!
Would you say these tips are applicable to Colocasia as well? I have an Alocasia frydek that is very happy she had up to 6 huge leaves this summer but died back to 3 for the winter. Anyway I just purchased a Colocasia mojito and am reading that it’s difficult to keep inside what are your thoughts? Also purchased an Alocasia tiny dancer so I’m waiting on that one to arrive too can’t wait 🤗
I'm not sure, I don't have any useful experience with colocasia. I wish you luck though! Tiny dancers are so cute! Definitely keep those leaves clean, they love to collect dust, debris, and pests in my experience
Just got my alocasia amazon😍😍
Yayy!
Can you use tap water for my allocaia and how do I increase ph soil
I have 4diffrernt alocasia,I feed them a tiny bit of water,every now and again, once iv watered them the drip water from there leaves,why is this?am I over watering them?they all seem healthy. I have a alocasia zebrina,polly,regal shield, and a low rider.
Mine get 4-5 leaves but I keep having to put supports under them because the fold over and then die. Is there anything I can do to make the stalks stronger so they don't fold in half?
New sub great video
Thank you!
Mine only has one leaf, the other died😩 will other leaves still grow I’m so worried please advice
I recommend taking the advice of the video and other comments. I dont know your plant, soil, or environment, so its hard for me to help further
@@ElizabethPlants Thank you much
Hi Elizabeth, I've got 2 questions which I'd love to have your thoughts on. 1) How do you get yours to stop that dripping (guttation)? my wood floors aren't happy about it. and 2) what is the name of the narrow yet very contoured variety that you tug on at 8:49. Is it a portei or something else? Thanks so much in advance for your thoughts.
I actually don't stop it, so I am not sure how/if you could. The plant i belive is alocasia monster
@@ElizabethPlants Thanks for replying. 1) Do they all constantly drip then? (I've just started owning them) The smaller Wentii has slowed down, but my larger Portadora needs a skirt around the floor all the time. 2) I've seen that the Portei is also called Malaysian Monster. I simply CANNOT find it anywhere online. I'm willing to pay shipping from anywhere to the UK. Any suggestions on where I could find it???
I got mine from the new plant co on Etsy, can check there. Also, no mine don't drip a ton, but they do occasionally. I think it depends on humidity/watering? I'm not super familiar with the function/cause of it.
Alocasia “sweat” excess water off the tips of their leaves when over watered 😊 no cause for concern 🙏
My elephant ear flowers do I remove flower when it dies
This is an Excellent video, thank you!! I am afraid, however, that I am not as strong as you. I just can't take the risk of spider mites. I have too many plants, many of them very delicate. Spider mites make me want to just give up. I REALLY wanted an A. 'Polly', but the anxiety of spider mites is too overwhelming.
Does systemic watering help at all? IDK much about it, but am aware of the success of others using it.
I'm not sure what you mean by systematic watering, keeping humidity up and cleaning regularly is helpful!
I know this video is older but can you tell me about your lighting for your alocasia?
That does depend on the alocasia. I offer variegated ones more lighter colored ones more light than my velvet or black ones. Not by much. Overall, bright for at least half the day, no direct for my indoor babies.
I'm about to give up on all my smaller, tender, "fancier" alocasia. Pretty sure one managed to get three different types of pests and completely deteriorated within 48 hours, which passed them on to the nearby anthurium and the other types of jewel alocasia. My large varieties though, I'm sure could survive an apocalypse. They even bloom/flower inside my apartment, in the winter 🤦🏻. The smaller ones though, it's like balancing on a wire. Once you lean a liiiittle bit too far one way (over/under watering), it becomes a cycle of just trying to get your balance enough to keep it alive.
Did that make sense? Probably not. Can you tell how much these things are stressing me out? Probably.
Hello, quick question my elephant ear plant leaves keep turning yellow… should I wait to water them once the top half is dry?
Yess they rot easy so be careful! Also depends on your soil, humidity, etc
YAY!! I NEeded this Video!! ;) ;)
Elephant ears great for soup eg. Tom Yum Soup the stem
The reason you have recurrent, chronic spider mites is that you are running your plants TOO DRY! Also, in a place like Michigan you MUST humidify, in Winter.
I have 8 humidifiers in my 2 bedroom. Trust me, I am doing my best. I understand that is why, I have said it before (cant remember if I said it in this video) but, I am doing all I am able about the Michigan winter dryness. Please do not judge people so harshly whos situation you do not know or understand. Information is welcome here, please communicate kindly, judgement is not welcome. I apologize if I misunderstood your intentions
@@ElizabethPlants I certainly didn't intend to be harsh, but spider mites are dreadful and I have discovered that it is not only the air, it is also the soil. I lived in Chicago for 50 years and I have filled humidifiers of every stripe. There is no judgement in all that we go through to keep our precious green babies happy and beautiful. I think you are right about clay pots. They also add a tiny microclimate of their own. Every bit helps.
I have a black stem with some of the leaves drooping. What is your recommendation for that? I had someone tell me to trim those off as they won't revive.
Is there no more flint in your water ?