FULL Alocasia Collection & Care Guide | Tips for struggling Alocasia
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2024
- In this video I share my full Alocasia collection, plus discuss my care requirements and the successes and failures that have led me to understanding this fussy genus. I also cover propagation and show you all the plants I have grown from corms.
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Great video-especially informative! Your collection looks pristine!
Thank you 💚 I'm so glad it was informative, definitely one of my favourite genus!
Hi, i just want to point out that you shouldnt tell people to cut off the flowers from Alocasia. The flowering process is necessary and if you cut it the plant will just replace it with a new flower as oppose to growing a new leaf because it wants to reproduce and thinks that its flower is just damaged. Lastly, by the time the flower actually emerges, the plant already used all of the energy making it! Once it emerges the energy is already gone.
That's interesting, I've always cut them off and then got rewarded with a new leaf. Always open to hearing other points of view 💚
@wyldhouseplants blooming is a hormonal cycle that Alocasia go through. You may get a new leaf but it won't be as big or shaped as nicely as the last because that hormonal process was gravely interrupted. Cutting a bloom usually triggers an Alocasia to throw more blooms. By the time a bloom emerges it's used all of the energy to create that bloom (from within) that we think it's using to bloom. Once the bloom dies because it wasn't pollinated it recycles beneficial nutrients back into your plant to create a stronger healthier plant. Cutting the bloom because it uses too much energy is a myth that youtubers and influencers made up to sound knowledgeable but the real info is easily google-able.
@@HelicopterPLArentinteresting, I can confirm that with my dragon scale actually, cut one flower, 2 more popped up and I haven’t had new leaves in months, she’s always been a bit temperamental in my humidity anyway, or lack thereof.. thx for sharing!
@torquess454 you're welcome! FYI it's not my "point of view" it's an actual fact! When a bloom emerges the plant has used so much power making it from within and when you cut it and it is forced to create a new bloom it has to expend all that energy all over again and actually aids in the stress and Ultimate demise of the plant having to continuously regenerate that kind of energy.
I always chop the flowers and have had no issues with small leaves. Awesome looking Zebrina.
I'm so thankful for your video! I'm fairly new to alocasia and have had success with growing corms and even spidermites cannot steal my joy with this genus. 😊
Thanks so much for your comment 😊 Alocasia are the best, honestly such a great genus 💚💚
@@wyldhouseplants I agree
Video on how you used houseplants for wedding, please!❤
Coming soon!
My Alocasia Macrorrhizos has one stem, should I take it out of the dirt and put it into perlite? And if so, should I then put it under a dome or greenhouse type environment and how long? Once I do that and it starts to grow more, can I put it back into soil? The stem is about 14 inches in height. Thank you for sharing all your tips.
It might be worth removing the soil just to check the roots. If they look bad, remove the soil and stick it into perlite. If the roots look ok, it might just be struggling with the change in season and you can try upping the light conditions (and making sure it doesn't have pests). If you have a doom big enough you can definitely try that but you don't have to. Once it has a better root system you can put it back in soil yup 👍💚
I tried propagating in fluval and had zero success, everything rotted, it was hard to clean, pearlite you can rinse and flush, fluval breaks down to mud when you do that, goes straight down the drain if you’re not careful. I’ll stick to pearlite too
My Cuprea is one of my favs too, I mistakenly put it in a chunky mix in terracotta and it just wasn’t happy, 2 leaves, so I added sphagnum moss to the top of the soil and water when the moss is dry, it’s going crazy and sizing up each leaf now, as big as my head!!!
Looks like you have them all in semi hydro? Soil ninja?
Ah thanks for sharing your experience with fluval, yeah I'm happy with perlite so think I'll stick with that 😊 Yes I use the Soil Ninja coarse semi-hydro mix, and some of my earlier plants are in Lechuza pon. The roots go crazy in semi-hydro so I probably end up repotting more frequently but they seem to love it 💚
My cuprea's leaves just faces down when I expose it to the same amount of light as every other alocasia in my collection. Did you experience this with yours as well?
I think the stems don't seem as sturdy on the cuprea and the leaves do tend to need more support in order to get them to display nicely 💚
Cupreas do not want as much light that is why they droop downward. Moving it further from a window will help. I'm speaking from experience! It prefers just a bright room.
Same experience. My Cuprea definitely needs to be farther from light source
Do you water them at all when dormant and all leaves dropped?
Mine don't go dormant over the winter as I use grow lights and prioritise light as they are my favourite plants. However if they did I would reduce watering and water when the substrate was completely dry 💚
I love the all white 🤍 leaves wish they could stay ❤ would you sell or trade I've been looking for one 😊❤❤❤
I know they are beautiful. I'm looking to get my plant nice and full again so not looking to trade or sell I'm afraid 💚