How I ROTTED my FAVORITE Plant! | Alocasia Frydek Plant Care | Corm Propagation | Repotting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- I went from thinking my one Frydek was on its deathbed to now I have 9 and can’t care for them all ☠️
Since I finished filming this video last week, I’m happy to report that every single corm from the sextuplet bunch has sprouted and 4 of the 6 are fully variegated, while the other two are still too young to tell. Not bad!
This Variegated Alocasia Frydek was truly “the one”. It completely started my interest in variegated Alocasias, which is why it was so heartbreaking that I didn’t realize she was rotting in LECA.
While I still do have other Alocasias happily living in LECA right now, my conclusion from this learning experience is that Alocasias have very fine root systems that are sensitive, and so when my Frydek got root bound, it subsequently started rotting.
Moving forward, my plan is to transition my Alocasias away from LECA and back into soil. While LECA is considered the “no-brainer” medium because you can just leave a reservoir of water and never worry about over or under watering, it’s not without its setbacks. You need to make sure your PH levels are appropriate for plants growing in LECA and you have to always remember to provide nutrients because LECA doesn’t have any (unlike soil).
I’m not swearing off LECA completely - just not for my Alocasias.
I am so excited to see the progress of these corms though. Most will eventually be re-homed because I do not have the capacity to care for all of them so stay tuned if you’re interested in snagging one of these!
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🕐 TIMESTAMPS 🕐
00:00 The Story of ROT
01:57 Discovering CORMS
02:32 Treating Root Rot
03:33 Propagating Corms
05:37 Re-Rooting in LECA
06:58 2 Week Later Update
09:37 1 Month Later Update & Surprise Discovery!
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The other day my grandma said i think you have to many plant you know and i said no i dont know 😂
Ahaha the limit does not exist
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Your editing is unbelievable!! I really appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into to each video! I need to get a house with stairs just so I can have a stair slide too!
Thank you soooo much. Appreciate you
Here to support the variegated frydek during its time of need 💗
LOL thank you for being part of its emotional support club
Wow gurl I love your chaotic but organised energy so much! I only recently became obsessed with plants about 3 months ago and I already have close to 100 that im looking after and they’re such a joy for my neurodivergent brain. I love your videos and I hope your plants are doing ok x
Thank you! The mama plant is still in ICU and the babies all popped variegated leaves!!!! Cheers to your new wonderful and expanding collection!
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow sooo exciting!!!
I’m so sorry you lost your beloved Frydek. Glad that you have so many others to look forward to. I love your videos - always put a smile on my face! 😊
So many new babies came from this fiasco. Haha. Thank you!
OMG, how is it that you always seem to know exactly what I need to do?!? I've noticed my Frydek along with her 5 babies, which is my fav!, have been droopy and babies not happy. So okay, today's the day.... oh - she says thank you!! - Uh oh, end of vid, now I'm scared. Lol!!
Good look to frydek mama and your new grandchildren!
Now really alocasia WAS surely not my type of plant but ever since your journey of growing corms started I too gathered some courage and now I own around 7 of them 😂❤ Thanks for providing me the courage.THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤
This makes me incredibly happy to hear!!! Isn’t it so incredibly fun! What corms do you have
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrowNow FYI, I really am very low on budget 😂 so I just own a handful of cheap common alocasia but I own the elephant ear alocasia, the red secret alocasia or something, alocasia Melo I think and this and that but still watching them grow is great but after watching your "high stake plant" I really wanted one frydek but they are like so, so expensive, they are rarely or never found in my locals, and online it's like on etsy like around 10000 INR (125 dollar) which is a great deal of money in India but I hope It will be available soon and I would Have one.😂Hopes are high on side.
I love your storytelling, the fun editing and your passion for plants. I hope your frydeks can start a whole colony.
I hope so too! Each one is variegated so far! Thank you
I learn so much and am so entertained by your videos. My plants are so grateful to you .
I’m so glad to hear that!!!
You have the most entertaining planty videos! Thank you for putting so much into them. I know as a new channel it is not easy lots go into it. I am sorry you lost your beautiful Frydek, hopefully it will start to grow again if you decide to keep trying.
I’m definitely trying (times 9) haha. Thank you!!!
❤❤❤❤❤Your videos, they always make me laugh! I especially love when you ride the little car around to get your plant chores done. 😂 and now your stair slide omg you crack me up! You’re the bomb!!!
That slide is the best Covid purchase ever 😂
I’m sorry that happened to you! Glad you got an abundance of corms!
A factory of corms haha
Awww, these things happen. All we can do is our best. I think you did a fantastic rehab job. I hope she bounces back for you!! 🙏💚
Thank you so much!!!
Oh yes and your shorts are the best too!!
Haha thank you!
your greenhouse is soooooo cool
I love that greenhouse! I have a smaller one too but this one is the 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌
OMGOSH, I’m in love with your greenhouse.
Me too! Took a while but I love how it turned out
I feel like "I can do this" after your videos and that actually I'll not kill the alocasia! but I am not so sure about this 😂😂
Learn from my failures please 😂
“If I would be pregnant with six kids I would be droopy too” 😂😂Your sense of humour 😂😂😂
It’s FACTS! I’m barely hanging on after TWO kids 🤣
You give me hope.
Haha I’m glad
Awwww. You’re sad face for the plants 😿 Happy it’s still holding on!
She’s fighting for her space in the cabinet haha
Although there is root rot, could another reason your frydek was drooping because it grew to be too close to the light source inside your cabinet? I’ve watched videos where people who are amazing at taking care of alocasias would say that sometimes if the leaves are drooping downwards- almost like it’s trying to hide it’s leaves, it could be it is receiving too much direct light. I’m only bringing this up because there were more healthy looking roots compared to the rotted ones. Frydeks are so sensitive to repots- so I’m not surprised it rotted back into a no leaf stump ☹️
They are so sensitive!!! I’ve heard of the dropping due to light issue before as well. It was never an issue for the past 1.5 years before with this frydek in the cabinet so I kinda want to rule it out but WHO KNOWWWWS
Aw I had so much hope 🤞🏽
There’s still hope! She has new roots!
Nooo I had this misconception root rot was caused by fungi found in SOIL!! And the fungi is more prominent in poorly drained SOIL! I felt safe with my leca balls ☠️
And spilling the stratum on the white carpet LOL 😅
Alocasias are fussy and unpredictable really. Glad you had the corms as insurance. Sending hugs!
Thank you!!! I just discovered ANOTHER Alocasia last night rotting in LECA 😢😢😢😢😢
I’m so invested in this saga! Sending best wishes of recovery to the mama and xoxo to the babies! I wonder, how did she rot in the first place? Was there something in the LECA? I thought they didn’t normally rot in semi-hydro. Or am I just a sweet summer child 😂
My friend who has a lot more experience with Alocasias in LECA said the root systems are just too delicate and they rot easily. In my situation, the frydek was already stressed from being rootbound too so it just threw a fit!
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow Thank you for responding! I bought my first alocasia a couple of weeks ago and chopped the roots off to grow water roots and pot it into LECA. This info will keep me on my toes, diligently monitoring the roots! I got corms from her too and am now propagating them by the shallow puddle method and a couple in perlite (I’m unfortunately on a very tight budget 😕)
This was so good. Thanks, I don't feel so crazy now.
1 hour of 🪴 plant care = 4 hours for normal people.
And nights turn into mornings at warp speed while doing our planty things! 😅
We are in a different time dimension!
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Thank you 😁
This video came just in time. I thought my alocasia was a goner but I checked for corms and found 3! They now reside in a McCafe cup 🙃
YAY! Reusing cups for the win haha
That was an emotional rollercoaster even having seen the short! In part wondering how many times longer plant chores take with filming, even setting aside future editing work. Amazing stuff.
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3:17 a good idea is to submerge the whole rhizome because they are another part of this plant that is super susceptible to rotting! also leaving the top part of the roots out of moisture for half an hour can dry them out too much.
Noted!
Ahh. Kind of makes me want to try Alocasias!
I love that this is your takeaway because 90% of this video is how I failed my Alocasia 😂. BUT Alocasias come with insurance policies in the form of corms so it’s fun to experiment.
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Good luck rehabbing the mother plant! Maybe you stressed it out by repotting but it looks like it'd be worse if you didn't do anything! With my Alocasia luck, 8 Alocasia Frydeks sounds like seven backups to me! 🤣
HAHA for sure!
Sounds like 8 backups, which is a safe number. I think you need to make another cabinet. You know, for re-habs and corms.
Lol a cabinet JUST FOR CORMS. I think we call that a factory 😂🫶
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow Just a little half cabinet - you know you want to. 😈
It's so interesting to see how some plants can be ridiculously overpriced😵💫 In my country, those alocasia grow like weed along the street, in people's yards etc
that has ALWAYS been fascinating to me. What country are you in?
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow Mauritius 💖 it's humid and warm, you see, tropical plants from around the world adapt very easily to our climate. Btw thanks to channels like yours, I was encouraged to grow plants too, and now, I have a bunch of alocasias and syngoniums and pothos that I have always seen at both my grandmas' since I was a kid and I value them a whole lot more now, so thank you💖💖💖
That’s so wonderful to hear! Thank you for sharing that ☺️
Since I started using a heat mat for corm propagation, my success rate is almost 100%. it seems like they really, really like warmer water. I could imagine that cold water is deterring them to start growing.
I have a heat mat for my corms in my other cabinet but no more space hahaha. I would love to be a corm though and just lie on a heat mat all day
so sad about her fate! hope she'll grow back this spring. will you make another video/short if she makes a comeback?
I will! She has a ton of roots and her 6 children are ALL variegated!
Frydeks are so hard! But you have insurance x 6! I love alocasias for that. Have you ever tried the "shallow puddle" method for corm propagation? I just put them in a little dish of water with a plastic cover on a heat mat and they usually sprout roots in ~2 weeks. I then keep them in water until they open the first leaf (usually only 1-3 weeks after the roots start) and then transfer to pon. Seems to only take about 4-6 weeks from corm harvest to pon transfer with this method. I've tried sprouting in stratum before and after 2 months of nothing, I got impatient and moved to water and had roots and a leaf a few weeks later.
I have done the shallow puddle method but I am horrible about making sure there’s always a puddle haha. I’ve dried out many corms 😂
@ohtheplacesyoullgrow yeah, that's definitely the caveat! I've dried out many myself.
I made the mistake once of using too much peroxide in a reservoir and it ended up killing most of the roots. Leca roots don't do peroxide very well at the standard dilution.
Good to know!!
Sometimes trimming all the root of Alocasia when repotting seem to do the trick… once the roots are disturbed, especially transferred into different textured substrate media they rot almost instantly.
Oh I’ll keep that in mind!
I wish I saw this on Sunday. My Alocasia melo was looking sad, so I repotted her. She had 2 corms but I didn't peel them, I put them in dirt again
I’ve seen people do that all the time! I hope they root nicely!
The disrespect... this lady just dropped all her leaves after all that work! Fingers crossed she makes a recovery. The new growth point is promising 😀
I’m hopeful for spring! Haha 🫶
I feel like this is me and my bambino journey. First I had 5 leaves put it in the green house - leaves melted off. Took it out things were ok, then boom… nope, no leaves and now the corm is giving me labor pains. I think this week it’s root check and move to stratum. I no good with alocasia except for black velvet 😑
Awww back to square one. Alocasias can be so fussy! Glad you have the green thumb with black velvet!
Please teach me more about stratum :)
It’s made of volcanic ash and super nutrient rich for propagating!
Nnnnooooooooooooooooo!!!! I loved that plant
Saaaaame
Gday, I love your videos ☺️ question though - a lot of your pots don’t have drainage - is this a conscious choice?
So this vessel with LECA doesn’t have drainage so it can maintain reservoir. My plants in soil do have drainage (except those in self watering setups)
If your Leca keeps giving grief, try Pon. I've had incredible success from advice to use Pon!! Only lost 1 of like 15 & that could have been user error haha!
I know I really need to!
I was going to say this as well! I love pon. I add coarse perlite to mine, also.
Do you make your own pon mix or do you buy pre-made
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My friend Cat makes them!
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I got my first Alocasia (Pink Dragon) a month ago and Im obsessed, it had a baby that lost all its leaves, but the mom had 9 corms and 5 beautifull leaves. They (the corms) and the other leafless baby are in the diy nursery. I keep eyeing more on etsy/other plant shops and trying to restrain myself. My mom gave me a baby low rider, but... I WANT MORRRRRRRRE HAHHA😂😅
I adore pink dragons! Their stems are so pretty!
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Same! And a £120 var scalprum corm …and two var bambinos 😰Alocasia are defo a love/ hate genus
Not the scalpeum corm!!!!
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow I know😭😱devastated
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow with all the amazing content you regularly put out, I really appreciate you taking the time to respond to so many comments! We appreciate you, your awesome sense of humour and creativity.
The reason a plant rots is not the bacteria and fungi themselves. There's only a problem if the environment becomes anaerobic or acidic. Hydroponic water needs to be replaced regularly to prevent this, just like an aquarium.
I wonder and was kinda looking into how to prevent the root rot in the first place, what would you do differently next time?
In general you prevent root rot by ensuring your soil is well draining and they you are managing water appropriately. In my case, the frydek was not doing well in LECA and I’m in the process of slowly transitioning all my Alocasias away from LECA. This isn’t to say that LECA is bad. I have friends who successfully grow all their Alocasia in LECA, but for me in my environment, it wasn’t working.
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Thank you!
Can’t keep them ! Hope they find good homes. 👍
I hope so too!!! My friend claimed one of them already haha
Who said you can't keep those all 😂 We push that voice down. 👀
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA love this 😂😂😂😂
Nice video and storytelling,.. just a suggestion that peroxide thing make no sense...
Peroxide is commonly used to treat root rot!
Stair slide: turn it on its side to go up.
lol I never thought of that
I'm not sure if Alocasia Pink Princess is really an Alocasia. This one is very tough and surviving. The others are vulnerable and they decline very fast. Imagine $100 melt away in 24 hours.
Oh my in 24 hours?!
Wow you repot on your carpet? You are brave.
😂😂😂😂 I’ve always done it!
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow I use my table and I run roots under water. It is much faster and blasts those nasty roots off.
Mine is weird and loves normal Scottish home humidity/temperatures and pon 😂 It hated high humidity
That goes to tell you how everyone’s growing environment is different! I wish mine could withstand room humidity 💛
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow yep! I’ve had people on other platforms yell in comments about how I’m killing mine with normal humidity…all while it’s lush and living its best life 🤦🏽♀️ Every plant is different and their preferences depend on so many factors that are personal to the house or environment they’re in
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Aw... She went thru postpartum hair loss like i did😅😢😂. Id lose all my hair (leaves) too if i had 6 babies vs the one lol.
100% agree with you AHAHHA p
Doing plant chores on beige carpet is pretty brave
LOL you know, i never even thought about that until I got so many comments saying the exact same thing hahaha. That's the beauty of a plant mat!
What’s the ratio you use for the hydrogen peroxide wash? I tried it once and killed a bunch of plants.
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Very little. Like 1:10
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE THAT LEAF RUG WAS FROM PLEASE
It’s from bit.ly/49EuE9h and MICHELLE10 will get you a discount
Don’t Alocasia go dormant during the winter? Yes, even under grow lights.
Not always! Most of my Alocasias continue to grow year round because the tropical conditions are consistent in my greenhouse
i rotted my var frydek corm today☠️☠️ i’m going to cry
I’ll join you 😢
I want a Frydek variegated but waiting till prices go down
The new one I got was actually around $30!
Your hilarious!
I’m glad you think so hahaha
Alocasias give me the finger eventually
My calatheas do that 😂
Hi what type of cabinet is that?
It’s an ikea cabinet I converted into a greenhouse. I made a video on it!
Where did you purchase your clear planters?
Hi! It’s linked in my video description under “fav products”
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow They are not on the Moss pole website. I mean the crystal clear pots becaause the planters on her site are crystal clear,most are not even clear because i have bought quite a few feom them. The only really clear pots i got are the scalloped planters, which I do not recommend.
Ooooooh the one that I’m propagating my frydek in is actually just a recycled plastic water cup! In terms of CLEAR CLEAR pots, here are some other options: amzn.to/4acVWnH
Give me one ❤❤😂😂😂
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I want a corm 😭😭 are they for sale?
Hi! I eventually will likely put them up for sale in my IG Stories. The most popular request was a giveaway as well 🙌
I spray hydrogen peroxide directly onto my plants.
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We get it you have real kids but we’re not here for that! Don’t risk hurting yourself on the stairs just to prove you have kids lol. And let’s not be graphic trying to relate the plants to human babies / moms 🙄
Tell me you don’t have kids without telling me you don’t have kids 🥸
I wish I had a frydek 😰😭🫣😮💨 congrats on your new babies
Thank yooooou. The replacement one I bought was only like $30!!! They’ve become so affordable now