I loved this! How timely! I got a broken-off, rootless Alocasia stem with 2 leaves, for free, from a large hardware store 2 or 3 weeks ago. It looked like someone had put it in their cart and knocked if off the pot, or maybe they tried to lift the plant out of the display tray and snapped it. I looked for signs of root rot but the bottom was not mushy and the leaves looked firm, so I asked if I could have it. The cashier looked at the stump, shrugged, and said, "Fine by me! Good luck with it." I brought it home, stuck the base in rooting hormone, and put it in damp pon. I checked it yesterday and it has 1 healthy looking root, 2 nubs that might be the beginning of more roots, and the 2 leaves it came home with are still on! I'm very hopeful that it'll survive. It was not labeled, but it looks like the Amazonica ("Polly") I already had so I believe that's what it is. I didn't use heat or covered it with a humidity dome, but I have it in my warmest bedroom, in front of an east-facing window, surrounded by many other plants, and with a humidifier nearby. Thank you for showing the progress of your experiment over the course of a few months. It is very, VERY helpful when content creators do that, especially when they share what worked and what didn't. I've seen other videos on which you've shown similar updates, so in appreciation of the extra time and effort compiling such a presentation takes, I subscribed a minute ago. Thank you!
The soil mix may have been to chunky for the frydek to hold onto moisture long enough for the plant to use it before it dried out. I have had my silver dragon in an orchid pot with perelite in 2 10 gallon aquariums top to top to make a terrarium 😅 ever since i saw your video on straight perelite i tried it because the leaves were starting to get brown tips, since then it pushed out a new leafe and I propagated 2 corms in perelite and sphag moss in a little grey yogurt container lol I'm very jealous of your coopria. Great video very informative i learn so much watching you, thank you for making videos.
I planted some corms from my alocasia Amazonica in a prop tray months ago and completely forgot to continue checking them, check led in after watching this video to find they have rooted really strongly in to the soil and 4 have sprouted. So pleased and surprised.
I love Alocasia but I suck at taking care of them in soil. All of my Alocasia is in Leca and the rest of my other plants are in soil. I have lots of croms, 14 in total, 2 have roots, 1 baby with 2 stems.
I think the air layering didn’t work because the soil dried out too quickly. I use sphagnum moss and keep it damp and mix in some horticultural charcoal to help protect the roots from rot.
I also deconstructed my Frydek. I took corms, stem cuttings a couple top cuts and 2 rhizomes. So far have lost the stem cuttings and one corm to rot but everything else is still alive . So far... 2 of my corms each have one leaf and one is working on its second leaf. It's fun!
Interesting plant project. Jeff. I'm halfway thru the video. Glad you found out why the alocasia frydek. Declined. The alocasia cuprea. Is gorgeous. Nice video showing the growth progress. Have a great rest of your weekend.maybe the frydek,should go in straight perlite. What do you think?
@@EverythingPlants I will surely enjoy. The video and continue doing some plant chores myself. 👍🪴. Looking forward to seeing more content when your home.
Thank you for this!!! I've been trying to figure out for the past 2 years if I can cut my alocasia amazonica stem, but this is the first time I've seen an example of exactly what I was hoping for! My stem is 8in long at this point! 😆
Thank you for this most informative video. I'm new to these plants and just acquired 3 of these at a very low price from a supermarket here in Victoria Australia. I've relocated from a much warmer place in Queensland and finding the range of plants in this colder climate very new and interesting. I have sadly left many beautiful tropical specimens behind. So am grateful for what I'm discovering here. I've been searching the internet for info on how to care for these plants. Your videos have the most detailed info compared to many others. I now hope to successfully grow these beautiful plants thanks to you. ❤
Cool experiment. Very interesting too see. I bought a small Alocasia Pink Dragon, which had spidermites and very small roots. I removed all soil, showered it, treated for spidermites and put it into a glass of water. In two weeks, we have new roots :-) Didn´t rotted, but is growing a new leaf and importantly new roots. I´m planning to put it in semi-hydro pon very soon (once the roots are sufficient). I tested the same thing on small calatheas before and worked well - in two weeks everone has new roots on the way and no rot issues (I change the water 2x a week). In 4 weeks most of them are ready for semi-hydro.
Thank you for this very interesting and informative video. Bought a dragon scale a few months ago from Walmart, it promptly died from root rot. But I kept it in hopes it might come back, your video reminded me to pull it out to check the roots and search for corms, no hope for main plant but got several corms. Hauled out my heat mat and planted them in a small orchid pot, hopefully in a few weeks some will root. Love your videos.
Thanks for the great video! I wish so much that I could post you a picture! 3 or 4 weeks ago, maybe longer…….I had my Frydek in dirt, I guess it was in dormancy. Anyway, It looked just like the one on the right side of your video, except no green coming out of the top at all, and a few scraggly roots. So I decided to put it halfway in a glass of water, and back to the sunroom it went. It now has several different green things growing out of it everywhere and it looks ready to plant but nothing coming out of the very top. So today I scraped the top part off (it was kinda mushy) and back halfway in the water it is. I think if you saw it you would be surprised. Sorry I don’t know the terms for all the “green things”, even after watching your video twice. I’ve come this far, hate to kill it now or get rid of it…….it is so interesting, but not sure what to do…..sorry this is probably a goofy post😂but you seem to really know what your doing. Thanks for any suggestions…
Still need help PLEASE!!! Didn’t know how to send pic…..Anyway, I figured out I was working with a STEM. So, it’s been in water, at a slant (rock under it). I finally have at least 4 different places where baby leaves have come thru, up and out of the water and growing, nothing out of the very top. Other roots and things are sprouting out pretty much all over the stem. I guess each one of these leaves on the stem would be a plant if separated. But could I plant the whole stem in dirt sideways with leaves going up and it grow? Thanks for any help….
.. You can give it a pot with leca and then just make sure the water level in the cover pot is at the roots level so they get the water.. Alocasia are very good with hydroponics growing.. The year before last I did that with my Alocasia Wightii after 5 years with frustrated confusion.. 2 leafs died off everytime 1 leaf came.. I ended up so frustrated that I removed every little bit of soil, cleaned the roots completely and left it in a pot with nothing but Leca and dumped it in an empty worm casting bucket that came in handy.. I watered with fertiliser and in May I left it in my garden in the shade of a huge butterfly bush - and forgot about it.. When October came I cleaned up the garden and found my Alocasia.. What a beauty.. It had roots all over the place in the bucket, and the most beautiful leaves ever.. She had been living of rain water and nothing else.. Sure I had to repot right away and I was amazed.. She is still living her best, never dropped another leaf, never droopy and sad.. The corms I only learned about this year, and had to take a look.. 16 corms I found and had them in boxes with spagnum moss.. 16 new Alocasia's were born after 6 - 8 weeks.. They have been adopted to new plant parents.. .
Also I think it was the pot you put the frydek in. I’ve noticed if a plant has recently died or struggled in a pot and you don’t sanitize the pot and give it a break, the next plant you put there will die/rot too.
Thank you Jeff for this learnfull video. I have a really sad Alocasia captain black magic. And after seeing your video I feel confident enough to give this method a shot.😊
Very interesting experiment! Also, a little nerve wrecking or frustrating when the plants don't do what you want them to do! Looking forward to updates!🌱🌱
I’m currently working on some Alocasia corms that I’m doing in stratum and pearlite. It’s been 3 weeks no roots yet but the growth points look swollen.
I had similar issues with Alocasias which seemed to enter dormancy in winter or sometimes for no apparent reason. However, very often I reused the soil for different types of plants and then realized that new Alocasias have sprouted in their new location because I overlooked the corms. (they have the same color like the potting mix and often hide among the pine bark chips). Other plants which also develop roots along the stem are Anthuriums. I have been growing them for a while but I always get the sparse foliage effect. Is it better to try air layering with Anthuriums as well? I want to give them a more bushy appearance.
Great experiment! You lost one, but you still have a rooted one…it would have died from root rot if you had not done the cut. The cuprea did great; it has stunning leaves. Thanks for sharing Jeff!
Thank you for this video. Is it possible to plant the stem deeper in the soil during repotting? My plant has grown quite tall, reaching about 8 feet, and I'd like to repot it without going through the propagation process. Any advice would be appreciated! I have an Alocasia Sumo
Very interesting. I have an aglo stump that's not doing anything, so I am going to take mine out to see what's up below. Lol, you know what I mean... great video, Jeff
This was really interesting. Thank you for keeping track of your results and putting it together for us! I hate a gangly long stem on an alocasia so I will stay tuned for your stump update, hopefully. Now I know I can cut it rather than getting deeper and deeper pots lol
Interesting video. I’ve ‘almost’ lost my Polly due to spider mite (I think). It had all the signs so I was pleased to find some corms and took the main plant out of the soil and cleaned the one last leaf before transferring to leca. The leaf eventually died and the corms are sitting in perlite but nothing has happened yet. It’s been at least 4 weeks so I’m thinking I should peel them then move them under a grow light. I have never done this before so please let me know if I’m doing something wrong. Thanks for sharing all the steps of recovering some growth on your Alocasias.
My lone alocasia would never live in substrate that dry! She's in a self watering pot and if i even breathe too heavily, she drops a leaf. Im going to research if there is wet root rot and dry root rot. Your's appeared dry.
I loved this! How timely! I got a broken-off, rootless Alocasia stem with 2 leaves, for free, from a large hardware store 2 or 3 weeks ago. It looked like someone had put it in their cart and knocked if off the pot, or maybe they tried to lift the plant out of the display tray and snapped it. I looked for signs of root rot but the bottom was not mushy and the leaves looked firm, so I asked if I could have it. The cashier looked at the stump, shrugged, and said, "Fine by me! Good luck with it." I brought it home, stuck the base in rooting hormone, and put it in damp pon. I checked it yesterday and it has 1 healthy looking root, 2 nubs that might be the beginning of more roots, and the 2 leaves it came home with are still on! I'm very hopeful that it'll survive. It was not labeled, but it looks like the Amazonica ("Polly") I already had so I believe that's what it is. I didn't use heat or covered it with a humidity dome, but I have it in my warmest bedroom, in front of an east-facing window, surrounded by many other plants, and with a humidifier nearby. Thank you for showing the progress of your experiment over the course of a few months. It is very, VERY helpful when content creators do that, especially when they share what worked and what didn't. I've seen other videos on which you've shown similar updates, so in appreciation of the extra time and effort compiling such a presentation takes, I subscribed a minute ago. Thank you!
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🤯WOW! Alot happens in your house in a month,then 8 days!!!! Cuprea leaves are just so beautiful! 😍🤩 Thank you for this video!!!💖💓
Yeah I'm so shocked that it grew that many roots in only 8 days
The soil mix may have been to chunky for the frydek to hold onto moisture long enough for the plant to use it before it dried out. I have had my silver dragon in an orchid pot with perelite in 2 10 gallon aquariums top to top to make a terrarium 😅 ever since i saw your video on straight perelite i tried it because the leaves were starting to get brown tips, since then it pushed out a new leafe and I propagated 2 corms in perelite and sphag moss in a little grey yogurt container lol I'm very jealous of your coopria. Great video very informative i learn so much watching you, thank you for making videos.
I think you might be right to vote it being too chunky. I'll have to put in a bit more potting soil next time
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@@EverythingPlants or some sphagnum moss like the moss pole type
Så smart ..har Micholiziana med lång stam...ska också testa med samma metod.
I planted some corms from my alocasia Amazonica in a prop tray months ago and completely forgot to continue checking them, check led in after watching this video to find they have rooted really strongly in to the soil and 4 have sprouted. So pleased and surprised.
That is so awesome to hear and thanks for sharing!
I love Alocasia but I suck at taking care of them in soil. All of my Alocasia is in Leca and the rest of my other plants are in soil. I have lots of croms, 14 in total, 2 have roots, 1 baby with 2 stems.
I think the air layering didn’t work because the soil dried out too quickly. I use sphagnum moss and keep it damp and mix in some horticultural charcoal to help protect the roots from rot.
I believe you are correct.... So much for watching!
I also deconstructed my Frydek. I took corms, stem cuttings a couple top cuts and 2 rhizomes. So far have lost the stem cuttings and one corm to rot but everything else is still alive . So far... 2 of my corms each have one leaf and one is working on its second leaf. It's fun!
Nice work Carla!!!
I love how often your pencil appears in your videos, haha. Very handy!
It's my favorite plant accessory ✏️
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So glad you did these experiments as I was going to try them myself. Thank you for all you do and sharing them with us!
Well thanks for watching Susan
Interesting plant project. Jeff. I'm halfway thru the video. Glad you found out why the alocasia frydek. Declined. The alocasia cuprea. Is gorgeous. Nice video showing the growth progress. Have a great rest of your weekend.maybe the frydek,should go in straight perlite. What do you think?
I think that may just happen lol
@@minglee4121 nice! I'm at work today....enjoy the video
@@EverythingPlants I will surely enjoy. The video and continue doing some plant chores myself. 👍🪴. Looking forward to seeing more content when your home.
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection
Thanks, Jillian
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Thank you for this!!! I've been trying to figure out for the past 2 years if I can cut my alocasia amazonica stem, but this is the first time I've seen an example of exactly what I was hoping for! My stem is 8in long at this point! 😆
You are so welcome!
Root rot bacteria in the soil?
Thank you for this most informative video. I'm new to these plants and just acquired 3 of these at a very low price from a supermarket here in Victoria Australia. I've relocated from a much warmer place in Queensland and finding the range of plants in this colder climate very new and interesting. I have sadly left many beautiful tropical specimens behind. So am grateful for what I'm discovering here. I've been searching the internet for info on how to care for these plants. Your videos have the most detailed info compared to many others. I now hope to successfully grow these beautiful plants thanks to you. ❤
Thanks so much Debra. These are such wonderful plants, but they can be a bit tricky to manage at times.
Cool experiment. Very interesting too see. I bought a small Alocasia Pink Dragon, which had spidermites and very small roots. I removed all soil, showered it, treated for spidermites and put it into a glass of water. In two weeks, we have new roots :-) Didn´t rotted, but is growing a new leaf and importantly new roots. I´m planning to put it in semi-hydro pon very soon (once the roots are sufficient). I tested the same thing on small calatheas before and worked well - in two weeks everone has new roots on the way and no rot issues (I change the water 2x a week). In 4 weeks most of them are ready for semi-hydro.
Wow! That is great. Thanks so much for sharing
Thank you for this very interesting and informative video. Bought a dragon scale a few months ago from Walmart, it promptly died from root rot. But I kept it in hopes it might come back, your video reminded me to pull it out to check the roots and search for corms, no hope for main plant but got several corms. Hauled out my heat mat and planted them in a small orchid pot, hopefully in a few weeks some will root. Love your videos.
Thank you this was very helpful I am new plant mom thanks for all great advice ❤️
Thanks for watching, Tamisha
Very interesting video. You’re a plant scientist! 😃🪴
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I literally just found rot in my imported Jacklyn a few hours ago. This was helpful thank you. I didn't know you could cut the stem like that.
Thanks for the great video! I wish so much that I could post you a picture! 3 or 4 weeks ago, maybe longer…….I had my Frydek in dirt, I guess it was in dormancy. Anyway, It looked just like the one on the right side of your video, except no green coming out of the top at all, and a few scraggly roots. So I decided to put it halfway in a glass of water, and back to the sunroom it went. It now has several different green things growing out of it everywhere and it looks ready to plant but nothing coming out of the very top. So today I scraped the top part off (it was kinda mushy) and back halfway in the water it is. I think if you saw it you would be surprised. Sorry I don’t know the terms for all the “green things”, even after watching your video twice. I’ve come this far, hate to kill it now or get rid of it…….it is so interesting, but not sure what to do…..sorry this is probably a goofy post😂but you seem to really know what your doing. Thanks for any suggestions…
You can send over a picture to my Instagram messenger if you want to...
Still need help PLEASE!!! Didn’t know how to send pic…..Anyway, I figured out I was working with a STEM. So, it’s been in water, at a slant (rock under it). I finally have at least 4 different places where baby leaves have come thru, up and out of the water and growing, nothing out of the very top. Other roots and things are sprouting out pretty much all over the stem. I guess each one of these leaves on the stem would be a plant if separated. But could I plant the whole stem in dirt sideways with leaves going up and it grow? Thanks for any help….
.. You can give it a pot with leca and then just make sure the water level in the cover pot is at the roots level so they get the water.. Alocasia are very good with hydroponics growing.. The year before last I did that with my Alocasia Wightii after 5 years with frustrated confusion.. 2 leafs died off everytime 1 leaf came.. I ended up so frustrated that I removed every little bit of soil, cleaned the roots completely and left it in a pot with nothing but Leca and dumped it in an empty worm casting bucket that came in handy.. I watered with fertiliser and in May I left it in my garden in the shade of a huge butterfly bush - and forgot about it.. When October came I cleaned up the garden and found my Alocasia.. What a beauty.. It had roots all over the place in the bucket, and the most beautiful leaves ever.. She had been living of rain water and nothing else.. Sure I had to repot right away and I was amazed.. She is still living her best, never dropped another leaf, never droopy and sad.. The corms I only learned about this year, and had to take a look.. 16 corms I found and had them in boxes with spagnum moss.. 16 new Alocasia's were born after 6 - 8 weeks.. They have been adopted to new plant parents..
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Also I think it was the pot you put the frydek in. I’ve noticed if a plant has recently died or struggled in a pot and you don’t sanitize the pot and give it a break, the next plant you put there will die/rot too.
Very interesting....I never thought of that. Thanks!
Thank you Jeff for this learnfull video. I have a really sad Alocasia captain black magic. And after seeing your video I feel confident enough to give this method a shot.😊
Thanks so much for watching and I'm glad you feel a bit more confident
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Very interesting experiment! Also, a little nerve wrecking or frustrating when the plants don't do what you want them to do! Looking forward to updates!🌱🌱
It's all in the name of learning lol
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Love your setup. Very pleasing and some great specimens
Thanks so much for watching. I do appreciate this support!
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This is a good channel with helpfull tips.
Thanks!
Cool video thank you Jeff
Thanks so much for watching, Tearta
This is a G rated show🤣
Haha. I thought it was funny 🤣
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I’m currently working on some Alocasia corms that I’m doing in stratum and pearlite. It’s been 3 weeks no roots yet but the growth points look swollen.
I love your videos! so informative!
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I’ve never air layered before thanks for the info. Is that a silver blush to your right? It’s beautiful.
It's a dorayaki silver! Very similar to the blush
Such an interesting process! Thank you for showing it to us
No problem....thanks so much for watching
Great video. I learned a lot. Thanks
Thanks for watching Faith
I had similar issues with Alocasias which seemed to enter dormancy in winter or sometimes for no apparent reason. However, very often I reused the soil for different types of plants and then realized that new Alocasias have sprouted in their new location because I overlooked the corms. (they have the same color like the potting mix and often hide among the pine bark chips). Other plants which also develop roots along the stem are Anthuriums. I have been growing them for a while but I always get the sparse foliage effect. Is it better to try air layering with Anthuriums as well? I want to give them a more bushy appearance.
Great experiment! You lost one, but you still have a rooted one…it would have died from root rot if you had not done the cut. The cuprea did great; it has stunning leaves. Thanks for sharing Jeff!
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Thank you for this video. Is it possible to plant the stem deeper in the soil during repotting? My plant has grown quite tall, reaching about 8 feet, and I'd like to repot it without going through the propagation process. Any advice would be appreciated! I have an Alocasia Sumo
Very interesting. I have an aglo stump that's not doing anything, so I am going to take mine out to see what's up below. Lol, you know what I mean... great video, Jeff
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Thanx for posting! Your videos are very informative so please keep going!
I tried this once and the top took off in Leca! The stump never did anything and eventually rotted. I did it with a silver dragon
So that's what I'm worried about this one as well. I hope that I will have some positive updates down the road with the stump
@@EverythingPlants I definitely think I didn’t go light enough on the water since there weren’t any leaves for the water to go to
Do you have a link for your scissors?
I don't, but they are from Canadian Tire store in Canada
Exelentes tutoriales,💯👍👍
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Thank you so much! I appreciate the support
Judging by the rate of growth on that Alocasia stem in the water maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to grow it in semi or straight hydro.
This was really interesting. Thank you for keeping track of your results and putting it together for us! I hate a gangly long stem on an alocasia so I will stay tuned for your stump update, hopefully. Now I know I can cut it rather than getting deeper and deeper pots lol
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Yeah it was a pretty cool experiment and I'm glad the top cutting survived. Stay tuned for the stump results lol
Would this work with a monstera deliciosa node? (Water on heatmat prop or air layer prop)?🤔
I'm doing this very thing with a monstera in water
@@EverythingPlants ty! I'll put mine on a heat mat also.
Keep me posted!
Nice showing
Thanks Muah la Kaparak
What do you use clean and shine your Alocasia leaves
I've only ever used just water. I just spray them off
@@EverythingPlants do you wipe them or let them air dry
@@kbm4409 usually just air dry, but I do want to try a certain leaf shine/clean product..... hopefully soon lol
@@EverythingPlants let me know how it works
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this video was great! has anyone said you look like joe lo truglio :)
Thanks
Interesting video. I’ve ‘almost’ lost my Polly due to spider mite (I think). It had all the signs so I was pleased to find some corms and took the main plant out of the soil and cleaned the one last leaf before transferring to leca. The leaf eventually died and the corms are sitting in perlite but nothing has happened yet. It’s been at least 4 weeks so I’m thinking I should peel them then move them under a grow light. I have never done this before so please let me know if I’m doing something wrong. Thanks for sharing all the steps of recovering some growth on your Alocasias.
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My lone alocasia would never live in substrate that dry! She's in a self watering pot and if i even breathe too heavily, she drops a leaf. Im going to research if there is wet root rot and dry root rot. Your's appeared dry.
I've moved most of mine to a higher humidity Ikea greenhouse cabinet
Like 377🌹👏 good morning verry nice good sharing👍🛎🤝
Hello!
AL💚CASIAS!!!
Aren't they lovely?
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Thank you so much!
Soil propagating Alocasia never works for me.
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OMG - thanks for potentially sacrificing your gorgeous Cuprea for this video! Great and HELPFUL experiment. 💚👏🏽🪴👏🏽💚
I think you still had Frydek corms in that pot. What you pulled out used to be connected to the bottom cutting 😳
Ya I noticed that too. I still have the pot so I'll check for them
@@EverythingPlants I'm glad you didn't throw it out yet. I was like, ah, he's gonna kick himself when he notices! Lol