Alocasia Makeover: Pro Tips for Transforming Your Aging Alocasia
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- Aloha! Join me as we take a look at what happens as an Alocasia ages and how to bring your Alocasia back to its previous glory.
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Pon is your BEST FRIEND when it comes to alacasia. Once I started I haven’t looked back and they are thriving.
Another great video, Drea. Love how your channel isn't just "latest greatest ___________" (specimen, substrate, fad) but a collection of reference videos. I think it was Jeff at Everything Plants that showed how to wrap moss (? can't remember) around those gawky alocasia necks, so that roots came off and then the whole plant could be put in a deeper pot; not sure if he also did a chop 'n' prop as well. I grow alocasia and colocasia outside in our mild Puget Sound climate, bringing them in when/if temps fall to 32*F. Enough rambling ...
I have 6 juvenile Alocasias. They’re doing well. They just want more moisture than my other plants, so I put a layer of pebbles on top & they stay moist much longer 😊
I appreciate the great video. Sorry about your scale infestation. 😮 Love ya Drea❤
I agree. I use super chunky mix and water more often. They also love love fertilizer. The only time I have lost a leaf is when I let them go to dry. I have also saved a mature one from root rot. I cut the corm in half to cut away the part with rot. I cleaned the rotted one up and they both continued to grow. The roots love a lot of moisture and oxygen. Also when they go to dry is when they seem to attract spider mites.
@@CindyH907 I learned the hard way after losing a couple leaves on my beautiful Gageana Albo 😭 They don’t like to dry out at all & I let all my other plants dry out b4 watering.
Wow was searching all over for a video on leggy alocasia, so timely. Thanks!
Glad I could help!💚
This was a good video thank you
You’re welcome!💚
Great video. I really appreciate you sharing your struggles! Good luck with the flat mites 💚
love your videos! beneficial bugs :) i have pretty exclusively used beneficial bugs for the last 18 months or so and absolutely love them. i do the sachets and also Nematodes. everything is easy to do and has kept my collection safe. they are well worth the expense if you have a collection.
Alocasia have been difficult to keep thriving for me but they do give you several opportunities to bring them back from the edge of death. 😂 I’ve had a love/hate relationship with alocasia. I had a Polly and a Black velvet at one time. They’d both die back and regrow and on and on until I lost them. At one point before I finally lost the polly I thought it was dead and because I didnt know about corms I emptied the pot out in the yard and the next spring a little polly plant popped up in that spot. I was flabbergasted! 🤯😂
The spider mites and the 1-3 leaf club (or even no leaf club) are what keep me from buying very many. Out of about 150-200 plants I have 2 alocasia, a variegated frydek and a non-variegated frydek. They’ve both had a rough time and died back to leafless stems when I pot them up in pon but are coming back now. They definitely teach you patience. Thanks for the great video. I’ll keep this in mind for when (if 😂) my alocasia get bigger.
Alocasia, love Pon🤷and I have my Tiny Dancer🌿in Pon and she loves it.. try it.
@@lifepathjourney3638 I don’t like that stuff. Im old school. Algae grows & you can’t see the water level. My friend grows hers that way, but Im averse to it. That stuff wasn’t available 45 years ago. I prefer the proper mix of substrate. I’m old 😂
@@GreenWitch1LOL! 😆 same
@@LeafyConversations Thank gawd! Im not alone 🤗
.. I've got mine in Leca and it works like a charm.. Finally.. At least my Alocasia Wentii do.. The other one, I can't remember the name 😳 dropped every leaf she had few days after her arrival.. I took her out the pot and gave her Leca instead, and within a month she had new leafs.. I had to forgive her, she's only a baby 👶 the corms from my Wentii is in Leca too having 2 leafs each.. There are 13 corms 😳
@@aingealtara1479 Don’t you get algae inside the pot? That’s the main problem I see especially with Pon. If you can’t see the water level, how can you water properly? Am I missing something?
What a great video. Thanks so much for information re not harvesting the corma.I have seen other people use pot extenders to make existing pots taller. I have also seen people reuse a clear starbucks cup by cutting the side and wrapping around the base of the stem. Ive only seen this for anthurium and never an alocasia so maybe it wouldnt work 😅
Could you air layer the top & then cut it off?
That would work as well as long as once you cut it off after it’s done getting roots you let it callus over on that open end well before potting it up. You’d have to keep the roots moist while letting it callous over too.
That’s what I do. Makes for a much nicer looking plant 🪴
Love this video - I have several Alocasia & they are Al pretty young. They all have long petioles & slump over - I try to keep them supported, but will the eventually get stronger & be able to support the weight of the leaves??
Hi ! You mentioned that you treated for flat mites. Is there anything other than beneficial bugs that you know works for sure ?
Have you discussed what can be done with syngoniums when they get leggy? I tried to grow them on moss poles and it didn't look great. There were gaps between the leaves and the stems got woody.
What beneficials are you using for flatmites?
Nature’s Good Guys special blend of predatory mites.💚
I keep trying with Alocasias, but not hard enough! I have a small Silver Dragon and a Polly. The Polly I’ve had for a few years, but it dies back and now I only have one corm with one leaf and tiny leaf that is trying to put out. Another smaller corm wasn’t doing anything. I’ll try your bottle cap method again. I tried it nearly two years ago after your video first came out, but I forgot to cover them and the water kept drying up before I remembered to check!
How long do u leave the roots in the water & peroxide mix?
Is there a reason you didn’t check all the plants for plugs while repotting"? Thank you.
Loving you videos . Great information..
Thanks so much!💚
Very helpful thank you!
You're welcome!💚
I think u needed to chop and prop the long corm into several new ones instead of burying it deeper
How do you know they were flat mites??? i bought a microscope that was crap, and they wanted me to download a Chinese app into my phone to make it work better - and that's a hard NO.
I use my beaver labs microscope. There’s a link to it in the video description.
@@AlohaPlantLife Thanks!!
Thankyou for that info on Alocasia’s. I have a few in my collection and it’s good to know what will happen as they age
You’re welcome!💚
I'm curious why you didn't transfer the maharani to leca?
My alocasia have always done fine for me in soil and if I was going to try them in leca I would probably start with a corn propagation instead of transferring one that’s been growing in soil since usually that goes more smoothly💚
Sorry, I made my comment before you said that you had previously repotted them and found plugs.
No worries!
You don't know what the approx. life span for the mother corm do you?
Honestly, it depends on your personal conditions so hard to say
If any of my Alocasia look like that in 2 years I will not keep them. Yep, I am all about beauty for my plants. 😅
What part exactly? I think they look just beautiful, like live plants. To each their own, I guess. I mean, it's fine to give up plants you no longet want to take care of. But they won't be at their prime infinitely, they go trough cycles and often come back around even.
@@AammaK What part? The long corm specifically. Each plant collector has a limit on what is right for them and I am just saying “for me” I wouldn’t keep it around at this stage. Of course, if the time comes I am as fortunate to have a Alocasia for 2 years I may change my tune. 🥹
Bothers me immensely when people don't take off dried sheath 😊 just don't accidentally break off a new growth