ALOCASIA Care & Propagation - Everything You Need to Know in
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- This video should arm you with (nearly) EVERYTHING you need to know about repotting and propagating #ALOCASIAS.
It's not quite a guide, but think of it more as a working case study. 😉 Whether you just bought your first #Alocasia or you've been growing them in soil for years and just want to try something new, this video should get you going down the right path.
We'll cover a range of topics, including:
- Growth habits
- Propagation - Corms + rhizome/stem division
- Roots - Rhizomes, stolons, corms, bulbils, hyphae, etc.
- Repotting into #LECA + #PON (#semihydro)
- Containers + Net pots
- Pests + Disease
- Variegation
- Mycorrhizal inoculant + how to use it with semi-hydro
- Dormancy
- ... and more!
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=== CHAPTERS 📖 ===
00:00 Intro
04:58 Unpot #1: Alocasia cuprea variegated
18:33 Unpot #2: Alocasia chantrieri
25:52 Alocasia pups + corms
29:18 Alocasia propagation (reproduction + division)
36:49 Corm Hunting
54:09 Unpot #3: Alocasia lukiwan
1:09:54 Outro
=== FEATURED PLANTS 🪴 ===
🌱 #Alocasia cuprea variegata - #alocasiacuprea #alocasiacupreavariegata
🌱 Alocasia chantrieri - #alocasiachantrieri
🌱 Alocasia lukiwan - #alocasialukiwan
🌱 Alocasia "Golden Bone" - #alocasiagoldenbone #alocasiaxgoldenbone
=== CHANNELS & RESOURCES ===
📺 @kevin. - HakunaLaPlanta
📺 @northshoretropicals - North Shore Tropicals
🌎 Do Alocasias Go Dormant? - Houseplant Alley - bit.ly/3ZvS1ON
🌎 Everything You Need To Know About Alocasia Dormancy - Highland Moss - bit.ly/3RmWxge
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🌎 Alocasia chantrieri - International Aroid Society - bit.ly/3sORg6V
🌎 Alocasia ‘Chantrieri’ - Aroidpedia - bit.ly/44QdSRN
🌎 Difference Between Rhizomes, and Tubers? - The Spruce - bit.ly/3reaL8I
🌎 Difference Between Corms, Bulbs, Tubers, and Rhizomes - The Spruce - bit.ly/3LnIsv8
🌎 Mycorrhizal fungi - RHS Gardening - bit.ly/3QBLWfs
🌎 Mycorrhizae - Wisconsin Horticulture - bit.ly/49DRA9s
=== GEAR & SUPPLIES IN THIS VIDEO ===
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All my alocasias died out and since I recycle all the soil and goes out to the ground plants , well this summer I found several of them growing around beautifully (North Texas 100 degree ) no care at all , I am bring in them back in 😌. I enjoy you r videos
Hi Veronica -- thanks for the comment! That's really funny, that's how it is with Alocasias and Colocasias, isn't it? I was actually looking at a few of my neglected TC plantlets today that I had thought were dried out and dead and I realized the Colocasia Milky Way that I had bought had actually popped a new leaf and was still alive, after all! These guys have a habit of catching you by surprise and coming back to life unexpectedly. 😆
Awesome video Nick, keep sharing the knowledge and experiences!!!!!
Hi Nick! I enjoyed and hope you make more videos! 😊
Thanks Mona! I'm already in the middle of editing the next one - it's going to be able 10 plants from my collection with new growth for September. Lots of good stuff in there.
Videos were slow progress over the summer because I hurt my back pretty badly in mid-July and had to take some time off to rest and rehab. Now that things are improving I'm trying to get back to a weekly-ish cadence on my videos. Hope to have this new one up next week!
@@theproppist I'm glad you're on the mend. I look forward to your videos. I'm going to transfer my alocasias to lecca. I'll try to film it if I can. Wish me luck
Great video…very informative and entertaining…would love to see your entire Alocasia collection!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it. I'm absolutely going to do an Alocasia tour (and probably an Anthurium one, too) sometime in the next few weeks. Need to do a little re-organizing and collection-pruning before I'm quite ready to show it all off, my tent is mayhem right now. 😉
Alot of good info thanks
Thanks for watching, glad you found it useful! 🙏🏼
You have the magic touch for those plants. I hope they will greatly grow for you. Great video. Thank you!!
Thank you, much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed the video. But you may want to wait for my upcoming "Plants I've killed recently" video before fully committing to that "magic touch" comment. 😆
LOL..
Looking forward to it.
Hi Nick! Found your channel today andg..I appreciate how thorough and detailed you are explaining everything..
I'm pretty new to Alocasias and this video is MUCH needed info. Thank you!
Hey Kelly! So glad you found this helpful. Sometimes I do wonder if I'm putting _too much_ detail into a few of these videos, but to be honest, the feedback has all been great so far, so I guess I won't change too much going forward. 😉
BTW - if you need any specific pointers on Alocasias, feel free to ask here, I'm happy to help if I can! (Or you might inspire a new video if it's too long for me to write down, haha.)
I killed a black velvet, silver dragon, Yucatan princess and Polly. I bought replacements. Now I have doubles of each because they grew in with other plants because I reused the soil. Happy surprise!😂
I feel you... I feel like I've killed nearly more Alocasias than I've actually owned/cared for at this point. 😆
Corms are the best, though, I try to unpot/repot an Alocasia at least once every month or two just to recapture the joy of finding those little nuggets every time... never gets old!
I just switched my plant to semi hydro and I’m terrified 😅 LOL because I also treated her for thrips the day before and gave her a good wash. I’m worried about her being over watered she looked way better today but yesterday she looked like she was bent over
Hey Dulce! No need to be scared of transitioning to semi-hydro but I'll give you a couple of tips based on what you said re: things you'll want to be careful of or watch out for when you're doing it...
- When you say "treated her for thrips", does that mean you had a thrips outbreak, or were you just doing a preventative treatment? Because I usually wouldn't recommend transferring to semi-hydro immediately after a major pest treatment on the plant, the plant will be stressed already and may have a hard time transitioning at the same time. If you were just doing a maintenance clean then no worries.
- Overwatering in semi-hydro is thankfully pretty obvious (and it's even more visible if you use clear pots or at least a clear inner mesh/orchid pot.) When you're transitioning, just make sure that your new medium is throughly dampened (e.g. rinsed first) and when you put your inner/net pot inside the cover pot, make sure the lowest part of your plant's roots in the LECA/Pon are *just* above the water line. That's usually your safest bet to get started (in my experience), and your plant should transition a little easier.
The only exceptions here (re: roots touching water) are if you had your plant's roots sitting in water for an extended period of time before the repot, in which case I think I'd probably submerge at least the bottom third of the roots for a few days to make the transition a little easier. Also, some cousins of Alocasias, like Colocasia or Caladium, are a little more tolerant of having wet roots, or in some cases prefer to be submerged all the time. Monsteras are also usually ok with getting their roots right in there, my Monsteras in LECA seem to end up with half their roots in the nutrient solution pretty damn quick...
- Finally, after converting, plants will often look a little limp for a bit. That's fine, a bit of transition shock. It doesn't happen with everything but it's not that rare. I would still be careful since you said you did the thrips treatment the day before, and keep an eye out for any root rot. Some plants coming from soil (you didn't mention what your previous medium was) will often lose a lot of root mass before starting to grow new semi-hydro roots, just clean them out when you get a chance or on the next repot.
Anyhow, hope that helps and I hope your plant has a smooth transition over to semi-hydro! Let me know if you have any other questions. 😉
I would like to know how your Leca Poles are doing and if the wick is beneficial to the pole or not. Any updates regarding this would be great 😄 There's not many videos out there telling if leca poles are actually working like moss poles.
Hey Eve! Thanks for the comment and for watching!
This is a bit of a tricky question because I had some issues in my tent earlier this year that affected a number of my plants that were on the LECA poles. I'll try and do a video showing some of them off once they've recovered a bit, but I had to cut down a significant amount of them due to a major underwatering event (i.e. I was on vacation and a bunch of stuff dried out, unfortunately.)
I can tell you without actually showing you that I've had really good experiences with the smaller poles - medium and small size work great with LECA. They hold the clay balls in there pretty good and don't "leak" too often during watering. Once roots start penetrating the pole, stuff barely moves at all in there. I would say that you either need to keep the wicking moist by watering at least once a week, or if you keep the "poled" plant in a tent or cabinet with pretty high (60%+) humidity, you can probably drop that watering schedule down to bi-weekly.
My P. "Glorious" and a bunch of Syngoniums did really awesome on the LECA pole. The two Monsteras.I had tried it with, my Burle Marx "Flame" & my deliciosa albo, both got underwatered pretty severely, so I had to cut them back down quite a bit. They were on the large sized poles so I can't really speak for those right now until they recover and get back up to size again.
All in all, I think the method works as long as you run the wicking with some give inside the pole, i.e. let it be loose in the pole so it has a little room to wrap around the LECA as you fill it. Also, make sure to top off the LECA in the pole intermittently as the plant grows. If you forget, the plant will grow INTO the pole, which is no fun - my Glorious did this and it was a HUGE pain in the ass to pull the growth point back out of the inside of the pole without breaking it.
Hope this helps! I'll try and include an update on the LECA pole method in a future video, I just need to give it a couple of months for things to recover. Thanks again for the question!
@@theproppist Big thanks for the lengthy answer! 😄 Looking forward for a video update in the future. In the main while I've started a Monstera on a leca pole, hope I made the right choice in giving it a try 😊
I didn't see the label maker link in your supply list. What was it again?
Hi Julie, thanks for watching and for catching that! I must have missed the label printer when adding my links in. Here it is, and I also updated it in the video description:
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Love the “mosaic virus” disclaimer. Lol
Hey, gotta be transparent here, just in case. 😉
do you know if the bulbs or roots will grow , i ordered some bulbs in Etsy coming from Latvia don’t know if they are real or legit alocasia …. ?
That's a really good question. TLDR; I have no idea, but based on Latvia's climate I'd be a little suspicious.
Long answer: early in the pandemic lockdown I tried buying some "Alocasia Black Velvet seeds" from Etsy or Amazon Marketplace. At the time I didn't have many Alocasias and they were pretty hard to get locally. I had no idea if they were legit or not. Turns out they were garbage, I received them but nothing germinated at all.
Since then I have ordered some tubers (basically the big chunky rhizome, but with no roots or stem/leaves, looks a bit like a potato) from a boutique plant shop online, and I've imported a couple as well through group orders on Facebook. The ones I got from the plant shop looked good but they rotted out on me and were quite expensive, unfortunately. The ones I imported directly from southeast Asia were great and are still with me today.
So, buyer beware, really - if the price looks too good to be true, it's probably crap. 🤷♂️ Try and order from a reputable seller if you're going to get them online, and look for testimonials from real users (e.g. plant folks on FB or Instagram are a good spot to confirm things.)
Hope this helps!
@@theproppist Thanks for your reply appreciate it thats what i thought too i did not order i only tried one to see it ….
I found 51 corms on my Regal Shield repot last week. Not sure if I was doing something right or something wrong as that seems like a lot.
Currently germinating them in perlite and water.
Diatomaceous earth can be put all over your plants to chop up the thrips
I have a container of diatomaceous earth for outside garden use, but I've never used it indoors!
The main reason I don't use it in my tent or cabinet is that I regularly use beneficial insects (with sprayings in between bug cycles). As far as I know, diatomaceous earth would be just as lethal to my beneficials just as much as it would kill the thrips, right? 🤷
Feel free to let me know if my assumption is off-base!
@@theproppist I never thought of that . I did hear we don't have access to the thrips medications in Alberta Canada anymore so diatomaceous earth saved my sister's plants from thrips it can be rinsed away later once the thrips are gone. I've also used it on ants to deter them from the house. They can be outside not inside
@Fixup1000 Hey Ruby! I'm in Vancouver, BC, Canada so I know exactly what you mean! Azamax and Bonide aren't available in Canada and you can't order them cross-border without doing some shady stuff to sneak them in. 😬 I know some plant shops (I won't name names, but hydroponics guys know what's what) carry small supplies here and there if you ask nicely, and sometimes folks can buy it down south and drive it up if you're stealthy enough about it. Either way, we're stuck with stuff that doesn't work as well, like pyrethrin (e.g. Safer's End-All), etc.
That sucks, but the beneficial insects are available if you want to try them. I use GrowLiv (growlive.com) out of Ontario for mine, but there are shops you can order from in Alberta and BC, too, I just haven't tried them because the prices and shipping work out cheaper with GrowLiv. Also, the folks at GrowLiv are pretty awesome about helping out with suggestions and answering questions if you have any. I may actually have someone from there on an interview video later this year on this channel, keep an eye out for it. 😉
@@theproppist thanks for the info :) I run aquariums too so fish medications went away with the insecticides.
Thanks for reaching out buddy🤩
42:10.... Why not take that little bit of stuff and put it in a pot instead of the bucket? You're pretty sure you got them all but, did you?😮
Thanks for everything 👍I learned a lot!
Haha, you're right, I could have, but I didn't for a couple of reasons.
(a) As a semi-hydro guy I don't keep any plants in the house in soil except for my handful of succulents, which are in super dry, airy, and well-draining mix specifically tailored for succulents. Then this soggy, clumpy container stuff is no good for them. I bottom water those pretty religiously to keep the fungus gnats at bay.
(b) I had a decent amount of those corms and I was pretty confident there weren't any more. No harm done. Gotta draw the line somewhere sifting through these suckers. 😉