Great video! Love the Cuprea Red Secret info, I’ve moved mine away from the south facing window so now I hope the leaves will not hang down. My Pink Dragon has been growing really well in PON for the last 2 years. It always has about 6 leaves at any one time, and the plant is just over 2 ft high.
@@AroidVibesOnlyI thought that it was a Baginda, but no, the Baginda’s lobes are more or less non existent. So I think my Pink Dragon is a Calidora based on the size of its “ears”! 😊
I put the Antoro Velvet from soil to Pon, and i had no issues with it, but i felt it.. this Alocasia want more attension and more water. The leafs reminds me of the Gynura (purple passion) which needs also alot of water.
Interesting! My variegated Bambino died so fast!! That I now just bundle the experience with the Polly/Purpley side. Do you think they're different enough to own both?
Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate your experimental approaches and the information that derives from your trials and tribulations. Very useful. Plus your delivery is quite entertaining. I know I've thrown just as much if not more 'side-eye shade' to most of my Alocasias. In general I've accepted that this genus doesn't want to be my friend. But they're just so damn cute (especially baby cormlings) that it's nearly impossible to resist hoarding them.
Thank you ! Super glad to be sharing my highs and lows! I'm just glad they multiply easily! Alocasia are the only species I've seen in person and then thought "this isn't real" 😝 turns out I was just missing out on the "alien" flora of earth haha 🧡🧡
I also used to struggle with Flying squid, Nebula, Infernalis, and Silver dragon but the following are what I did to make each of them thriving very well now: Of all 30+ Alocasia species, Flying squid and Nebula are on the opposite spectrum of watering requirement. Flying squid requires most often watering and Nebula least often. With same potting medium (coco chips), Indirect sun light condition (300-500 FC 6-8 hrs), temp 28-34 degree Celsius, humidity of 60-80, in outdoor condition with low wind, I thoroughly water Flying squid every day and Nebula thorough watering every 3-4 days with light misting on top everyday. For Infernalis, the same potting medium, temp, wind, and humidity conditions as the above apply but I put it in the location exposed to 3-4 hrs direct sunlight (2000 FC+) and water thoroughly every day or two. I totally agree that Infernalis is least resilience. If you leave it dry out between watering even a tiny bit too long, it would drop all leaves and die. For Silver dragon, I use chunky aroid mix (Orchid bark, pumice, vermiculite, perrite) with sphagnum moss covering the top layer of the potting medium and cover 1-2 inches of the stem. Light 500-1000 FC 6-8 hrs, same temp, wind and humidity as above. This potting mix and sphagnum moss technique (with the use of small pot to allow some root bound) also work very well with my other Alocasia species.
Rey! Thank you so much for your commitment! It's great to learn more from other Alocasia growers! I'm writing down the flying squid/ nebula watering tips! It's very interesting to hear about the direct light on Infernalis! Mine was also close to the light and doing well, but the Leca got too dry. Thanks for the great info!
I had a fun size Alocasia Antoro and it was doing great, until I moved it. It started dropping leaves and didn’t stop dropping leaves even after I put it back to original location.
Loved this video, so useful. I'm currently struggling with both Dragon scale and Silver dragon as they did not liked the transfer to pon very much. But my Ninja and Melo loved it.
💯💯 I super feel you about the baginda transfers! I have my money on the new ones from corms to love semi-hydro! How's the Ninja? I usually forget about it because I love the base reginula! But I've seen that Var ninja hit TC and not sure if it's that different! Lmk!
Beautiful your collection! The Melo in my conditions loves light around 700’s fc and I fertilize every time I water it. The corm that was in the soil grows so much slower than the mother plant, my guess is because it’s still a baby. The mother plant grows a leaf a month (more or less) except when flowering. It is in ambient humidity. Hope it helps!
Thank you! That is actually very insightful! I was leaning towards less light... I have a couple with 3 leaves, the same size. I'll run an experiment, lots of light Vs. little light see if we crack it! Look forward to a Melo reel about it!
@@AroidVibesOnly it’s important to say that I measured light on the street: resolana (light direct morning sun) is 1000fc in the phone light meter, so I’ve put grow lights in a distance where it measures between 500 to 900
@@AroidVibesOnly According to Aroidpedia, A. melo comes from serpentine soils which tend to be high in iron, magnesium and heavy metals and low in calcium and primary nutrients. However, mine is doing fine in regular, nutrient-rich potting soil, growing slowly but steadily. I try to keep it moderately moist, it doesn't drink a lot, but it doesn't like drying out completely. Light is about 300 FC, according to a mobile phone. Water is a mix of mainly rainwater and a bit of medium hard tap water, lightly fertilized. I bought it as a baby plant with four growing points about half year ago, two leaves and two tips, now it has eight beautiful leaves, two on each tip and a third one developing. Mineral substrates are great, but some plants just don't like their roots disturbed and benefit a lot from being transplanted with an intact root ball. The melo with its fine roots could be one of them. You could try starting a few corms in a larger pot with pon and just keep them in there for a few years.
Your channel is like therapy. It is helpful to know I’m not the only one be ‘shocked’ by how fast I can kill a Alocasia. Hands down, more than any other group of plants Alocasia make me say, ‘What did I do?’ 😳😮😖😂🫶
This is so funny, an anthoro baby plant made me look back into alocasias because it was so easy and going so strong. Before that I had 2 box store alocasias that I bought without knowledge and killed which made me think they weren't for me. I often ask myself if people's different experiences with the same plant are due to their conditions in their home or due to the individual plant.
Omg yes, absolutely an in depth DIY pon video please!. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences, I feel so validated 😭😂. I’ve been witnessing my pink dragon slooowly wilt into oblivion. I’ve been trying to fight the good fight, but gawd it has been emotionally taxing 😂🪦
I only have two alocasias. My Silver dragon is doing very well and it is my favorite. My other alocasia is my Stingray. It is giving me yet another leaf. I really like this plant a lot. But I am not sure if I want anyone alocasias. I found your video helpful. Thank you.
Thank you for watching! I love silver dragon! I just wish it would love me back and stay like that haha. My stingray is also a pretty one! The variegated version is out of this world!! It does get big, tho. Currently mine is super rootbound, but I can't have it get any larger haha 🧡
I heard the Cupreas leaves will bend down to get away from strong light, I’ve pulled mine out of the window, let’s see Edit:then you said it lol I’ll stick with the normal Cuprea, it blows my mind every day, I don’t need “more” plus some of those variegated Alocasias look a bit sickly to me personally. I prefer green versions of a lot of my plants minus a few albos I have ;) the white variegation is definitely a bonus to me I adore my Sinuata too, only ever get 3-4 leaves but it produces quite a few inflos too…
Just got mine infernalis for a relatively bargain price roughly 60 RMb/10 dollars. Still yet to bother the root/pot and kept it in its original small pot with densely packed peatn moss. I do wonder if his plant is a low light preference due to black/redish leaf
Great price! I'm definitely trying to buy another and test that out. The growth on my chunk is super slow. I'm going to try less light and more Dampness when I get one established! Keep me posted on your Infernalis journey! 🧡🧡
The ombre cups are from Michael's, the bigger are food container from Amazon 😂 and the last bigger ones are candy buckets from Party City 🤣🤣🤣 but they work very well!
I'm a lover of Alocasia, it is my favourite genus! Only yesterday I was saying to myself how hard it is to find good channels that are all about Alocasia. Today I found this video, yay! I do have a criticism: it's very hard to understand you when other people are talking over you, and it's also quite overwhelming. Is there anyway you could mute the reference videos?
😭😭😭😭 the worst! I have 5 that need to be up sized. 3 are in 1 container. One is massive and I'm terrified of moving it because. I KNOW she'll throw a tantrum!!
@@AroidVibesOnly ooh i feel ya, mine is starting to show signs of decline, I kinda wanna repot it again, but im terrified. I DONT REMEMBER SIGNING UP FOR A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP. By the way, the only alocasia (out of around 20 that I own) did not survive AT ALL in my collection is infernalis. That is one hell of a fiesty plant - she didnt like soil, didn't like pon, and hated rehab (fluval on a heat mat under growlights). Even her corms are unreasonably finnicky, one grew 2 leaves, i did not bother it,watered with same fertilizer as others, and still one day one of them just decided to unsubscribe from life...
I want the big bois! Any tips on sizing up? I can keep a lot of leaves but the same size. More light has not helped haha how much light does yours get?
Alocasia Scalprum and Alocasia Clypeolata were heavily poached here in the Philppines during plantdemic. They do grow everywhere here that's why they're really cheap.
🙈🙈 controversial take. I put it in the next video because it's literally one of my biggest Alocasia and all the corms size up SO DAMN FAST! Compact has not been my experience with Sinuata! But I love it! I got some Aurea Variegated TCs to play with! So you'll be seeing LOTS of Sinuata content in the future 🙌🏼🙌🏼💚
@@AroidVibesOnly that’s fair :). Thank you for replying to me. I just get confused when multiple voices are on top of each other :). I love your Alos :)
The alocasia featured in this Video:
00:00 Intro
00:55 Alocasia Cuprea Red Secret
04:34 Variegated Pink Cuprea
05:55 Alocasia Maharani
08:30 Variegated Maharani
09:15 Alocasia Reginula Black Velvet
11:00 Variegated Black Velvet Pink
12:01 Alocasia Melo
14:00 Variegated Melo
14:50 Alocasia Chienlii Antoro Velvet
18:19 Variegated Antoro Velvet
19:31 Alocasia Baginda 'Dragon Scale'
21:00 Variegated Dragon Scale
23:29 Alocasia Baginda Silver Dragon
24:27 Variegated Silver Dragon
25:17 Alocasia Azlanii
28:10 Variegated Azlanii
29:40 Alocasia Flying Squid
31:31 Alocasia Calidora Pink Dragon
33:01 Variegated Pink Dragon
34:07 Alocasia Blue Dragon
37:19 Alocasia Nebula Imperialis
40:38 Variegated Nebula Pink
41:50 Alocasia Reginae
44:20 Alocasia Bisma Platinum
45:45 Variegated Platinum
47:06 Alocasia Infernalis Kapit
49:50 Wishlist
50:08 Alocasia Scalprum
51:00 Alocasia Clypeolata
52:00 Alocasia Reversa
Great video! Love the Cuprea Red Secret info, I’ve moved mine away from the south facing window so now I hope the leaves will not hang down. My Pink Dragon has been growing really well in PON for the last 2 years. It always has about 6 leaves at any one time, and the plant is just over 2 ft high.
Wow! That's great I hope my pink dragon grows big too! I'm moving it to PON soon! Do you know which type of pink dragon you have?
@@AroidVibesOnlyI thought that it was a Baginda, but no, the Baginda’s lobes are more or less non existent. So I think my Pink Dragon is a Calidora based on the size of its “ears”! 😊
Thank you for Sharing your beautiful plants lovely collections 🇹🇹🇹🇹♥♥
Thank you for watching 🧡🧡
I put the Antoro Velvet from soil to Pon, and i had no issues with it, but i felt it.. this Alocasia want more attension and more water. The leafs reminds me of the Gynura (purple passion) which needs also alot of water.
Love my gynura and actually haven't made the connection!! But makes sense!! I'm a lot better about keeping my AV damp now!
Great video and beautiful collection!!! I have 8 different alocasias and by far, the easiest is my bambino which you didn’t talk about.
Interesting! My variegated Bambino died so fast!! That I now just bundle the experience with the Polly/Purpley side.
Do you think they're different enough to own both?
Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate your experimental approaches and the information that derives from your trials and tribulations. Very useful. Plus your delivery is quite entertaining. I know I've thrown just as much if not more 'side-eye shade' to most of my
Alocasias. In general I've accepted that this genus doesn't want to be my friend. But they're just so damn cute (especially baby cormlings) that it's nearly impossible to resist hoarding them.
Thank you ! Super glad to be sharing my highs and lows! I'm just glad they multiply easily!
Alocasia are the only species I've seen in person and then thought "this isn't real" 😝 turns out I was just missing out on the "alien" flora of earth haha 🧡🧡
@@AroidVibesOnly aliens are people too. Haha.
I also used to struggle with Flying squid, Nebula, Infernalis, and Silver dragon but the following are what I did to make each of them thriving very well now:
Of all 30+ Alocasia species, Flying squid and Nebula are on the opposite spectrum of watering requirement. Flying squid requires most often watering and Nebula least often.
With same potting medium (coco chips), Indirect sun light condition (300-500 FC 6-8 hrs), temp 28-34 degree Celsius, humidity of 60-80, in outdoor condition with low wind, I thoroughly water Flying squid every day and Nebula thorough watering every 3-4 days with light misting on top everyday.
For Infernalis, the same potting medium, temp, wind, and humidity conditions as the above apply but I put it in the location exposed to 3-4 hrs direct sunlight (2000 FC+) and water thoroughly every day or two. I totally agree that Infernalis is least resilience. If you leave it dry out between watering even a tiny bit too long, it would drop all leaves and die.
For Silver dragon, I use chunky aroid mix (Orchid bark, pumice, vermiculite, perrite) with sphagnum moss covering the top layer of the potting medium and cover 1-2 inches of the stem. Light 500-1000 FC 6-8 hrs, same temp, wind and humidity as above. This potting mix and sphagnum moss technique (with the use of small pot to allow some root bound) also work very well with my other Alocasia species.
Rey! Thank you so much for your commitment! It's great to learn more from other Alocasia growers! I'm writing down the flying squid/ nebula watering tips!
It's very interesting to hear about the direct light on Infernalis! Mine was also close to the light and doing well, but the Leca got too dry.
Thanks for the great info!
Alocasia has it's own head .....love same postion....hiii''''sssss from egypt
🧡🧡🧡
I had a fun size Alocasia Antoro and it was doing great, until I moved it. It started dropping leaves and didn’t stop dropping leaves even after I put it back to original location.
😩😩😩 def a delicate one! So far the one in PON is doing well. But not sure what will happen when it root bounds haha
Loved this video, so useful. I'm currently struggling with both Dragon scale and Silver dragon as they did not liked the transfer to pon very much. But my Ninja and Melo loved it.
💯💯 I super feel you about the baginda transfers! I have my money on the new ones from corms to love semi-hydro!
How's the Ninja? I usually forget about it because I love the base reginula! But I've seen that Var ninja hit TC and not sure if it's that different! Lmk!
Beautiful your collection! The Melo in my conditions loves light around 700’s fc and I fertilize every time I water it. The corm that was in the soil grows so much slower than the mother plant, my guess is because it’s still a baby. The mother plant grows a leaf a month (more or less) except when flowering. It is in ambient humidity.
Hope it helps!
Thank you! That is actually very insightful! I was leaning towards less light... I have a couple with 3 leaves, the same size. I'll run an experiment, lots of light Vs. little light see if we crack it! Look forward to a Melo reel about it!
@@AroidVibesOnly it’s important to say that I measured light on the street: resolana (light direct morning sun) is 1000fc in the phone light meter, so I’ve put grow lights in a distance where it measures between 500 to 900
@@AroidVibesOnly According to Aroidpedia, A. melo comes from serpentine soils which tend to be high in iron, magnesium and heavy metals and low in calcium and primary nutrients. However, mine is doing fine in regular, nutrient-rich potting soil, growing slowly but steadily. I try to keep it moderately moist, it doesn't drink a lot, but it doesn't like drying out completely. Light is about 300 FC, according to a mobile phone. Water is a mix of mainly rainwater and a bit of medium hard tap water, lightly fertilized.
I bought it as a baby plant with four growing points about half year ago, two leaves and two tips, now it has eight beautiful leaves, two on each tip and a third one developing. Mineral substrates are great, but some plants just don't like their roots disturbed and benefit a lot from being transplanted with an intact root ball. The melo with its fine roots could be one of them. You could try starting a few corms in a larger pot with pon and just keep them in there for a few years.
Same experience for pink dragon🥲
I'm doing better with mine. I actually ended up with 2 types of the 'pink Dragon' so look forward to come content featuring them soon
Your channel is like therapy. It is helpful to know I’m not the only one be ‘shocked’ by how fast I can kill a Alocasia. Hands down, more than any other group of plants Alocasia make me say, ‘What did I do?’ 😳😮😖😂🫶
I've killed more Alocasias that I can remember! But I learn something every time! And that's the fun of this hobby
Yea, would like to see your homemade pon recipe.
Awesome! I'll put it down as a future video! Thank you for watching!
Beautiful 😍
Thank you for watching 🧡🧡
This is so funny, an anthoro baby plant made me look back into alocasias because it was so easy and going so strong. Before that I had 2 box store alocasias that I bought without knowledge and killed which made me think they weren't for me. I often ask myself if people's different experiences with the same plant are due to their conditions in their home or due to the individual plant.
Yes most definitely! And water quality! That's why I like to be clear on my conditions because everyone needs to figure out what works for their
Omg yes, absolutely an in depth DIY pon video please!.
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences, I feel so validated 😭😂. I’ve been witnessing my pink dragon slooowly wilt into oblivion. I’ve been trying to fight the good fight, but gawd it has been emotionally taxing 😂🪦
We'll figure it out! I refuse to let pink dragon win ahahaha and yes I have the PON video in my video list 🙌🏼
Beautiful plants. ❤🎉😂😂
Thank you!!
I only have two alocasias. My Silver dragon is doing very well and it is my favorite. My other alocasia is my Stingray. It is giving me yet another leaf. I really like this plant a lot. But I am not sure if I want anyone alocasias. I found your video helpful. Thank you.
Thank you for watching! I love silver dragon! I just wish it would love me back and stay like that haha. My stingray is also a pretty one! The variegated version is out of this world!! It does get big, tho. Currently mine is super rootbound, but I can't have it get any larger haha 🧡
Very useful tips…thx! What fertilizer do you use?
Was using Superthrive, but now have been doing the Tezula from MSU the K-lite 12-1-1
how are your bagindas doing now? do you find that they do better in soil??
Still struggling the OG. But a silver baby is sizing up really nicely and a scale corm is doing well too. But the ones from soil still struggling
I heard the Cupreas leaves will bend down to get away from strong light, I’ve pulled mine out of the window, let’s see
Edit:then you said it lol
I’ll stick with the normal Cuprea, it blows my mind every day, I don’t need “more” plus some of those variegated Alocasias look a bit sickly to me personally. I prefer green versions of a lot of my plants minus a few albos I have ;) the white variegation is definitely a bonus to me
I adore my Sinuata too, only ever get 3-4 leaves but it produces quite a few inflos too…
How fast did Sinuata grow for you? All mine just do an absurd jump and start pushing around them. And mine also decided to start inflos already 😩
Just got mine infernalis for a relatively bargain price roughly 60 RMb/10 dollars. Still yet to bother the root/pot and kept it in its original small pot with densely packed peatn moss. I do wonder if his plant is a low light preference due to black/redish leaf
Great price! I'm definitely trying to buy another and test that out. The growth on my chunk is super slow. I'm going to try less light and more Dampness when I get one established! Keep me posted on your Infernalis journey! 🧡🧡
Where do you get your cover pots? Love your video!
The ombre cups are from Michael's, the bigger are food container from Amazon 😂 and the last bigger ones are candy buckets from Party City 🤣🤣🤣 but they work very well!
I'm a lover of Alocasia, it is my favourite genus! Only yesterday I was saying to myself how hard it is to find good channels that are all about Alocasia. Today I found this video, yay!
I do have a criticism: it's very hard to understand you when other people are talking over you, and it's also quite overwhelming. Is there anyway you could mute the reference videos?
Absolutely! That was a track that didn't get muted during the editing process! Thank you so much for watching!
My antoro velvet got VERY upset with me when I repotted it (it outgrew the pot and went from pon to pon) :/
😭😭😭😭 the worst! I have 5 that need to be up sized. 3 are in 1 container. One is massive and I'm terrified of moving it because. I KNOW she'll throw a tantrum!!
@@AroidVibesOnly ooh i feel ya, mine is starting to show signs of decline, I kinda wanna repot it again, but im terrified. I DONT REMEMBER SIGNING UP FOR A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP.
By the way, the only alocasia (out of around 20 that I own) did not survive AT ALL in my collection is infernalis. That is one hell of a fiesty plant - she didnt like soil, didn't like pon, and hated rehab (fluval on a heat mat under growlights). Even her corms are unreasonably finnicky, one grew 2 leaves, i did not bother it,watered with same fertilizer as others, and still one day one of them just decided to unsubscribe from life...
From experience the cuprea can get pretty big the leaves get ALOT bigger than yours is so far, my leaves on mine are about triple the size of
I want the big bois! Any tips on sizing up? I can keep a lot of leaves but the same size. More light has not helped haha how much light does yours get?
I, too, feel victimized by Alocasia Nebula!!
And the Internal is belongs in the fireplace.
I'm doing better! I started not watering it from the top. Only fill the reservoir and the wick... I'm trying less Dampness lol
Yeah, this one is fully cursed 😂😂
Alocasia Scalprum and Alocasia Clypeolata were heavily poached here in the Philppines during plantdemic. They do grow everywhere here that's why they're really cheap.
I hate to hear that!! You can only find Plugs from TC for those here. But hopefully the diversity remains in the Philippines
You have missed sinuata
🙈🙈 controversial take. I put it in the next video because it's literally one of my biggest Alocasia and all the corms size up SO DAMN FAST! Compact has not been my experience with Sinuata! But I love it! I got some Aurea Variegated TCs to play with! So you'll be seeing LOTS of Sinuata content in the future 🙌🏼🙌🏼💚
15:16 polite recommendation can you not speak when you have a video that you’re speaking, it’s confusing lol.
Agreed! That was my bad! All side tracks are supposed to be muted, but that one with those 3 clips, escaped me! 🧡🧡 I'll catch it next time!
@@AroidVibesOnly that’s fair :). Thank you for replying to me. I just get confused when multiple voices are on top of each other :).
I love your Alos :)