I WISH I Knew This Before Buying Alocasia!
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- How to stop your Alocasia going dormant
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THANK YOU!!!! I thought I was killing my alocosia plants. Every alocosia I bought died (or so, I thought). Maybe I can get up the nerve to try again.
but my plants are dead
Why do I have little balls on the roots of my plants ???
I just wanted to say, it is obviouse you put a ton of work into your filming and editing. It must take forever. I just wanted you to know someone noticed your hard work. Great job! And thank you for all the helpful tips. :)
Thank you so much!! It's all good fun
We see you, Mr Sheffield! Thank you for your hard work!
You have it backwards. I've grown many Alocasia for 30 years here in a cold climate. The trouble is not seasonally lower light levels. It's *heat, heat, heat!* You can prove this to yourself in about 3 weeks by putting any lame Alocasia on a heat mat in winter. New leaves shoot out. Overwatering problems go away,. They become very easy plants if you also give just decent light & water like any regular houseplant. The prefer temps in the 25-35 C range. Alocasia are not benefited by dormancy, that's just an emergency response to low temps. Get your minimum night temps up and your plants will thrive! :)
Won't be doing 77 to 95 degrees in my Minnesota home during the winter but I do have seedling warming mats. 😊😮
True. I live in Arizona 🇺🇸 dry heat. Theyre easy to care for here. 95°F (35°C) outdoors in May and its loving my indoor windows.
Indoor temp stays around 75°F (24°C) during the daytime. 70° at night. Alocasias do well in the southern part of America. Some people purchase plants online, not realizing they wont take well to certain climates.
That could be why I have such good luck. I hate the cold and in the winter my place is around 78 degrees
@@krazykitty5750 When I keep them in a room with minimum night temp of 65F and daytime average of 70F, they seem to make it thru winter alive without going into dormancy, especially if they have some full sun and I water carefully. Some seem slightly more resistant to cool winters than others, like odora and longiloba
That would be the great next experiment for a video about Alocasia, testing a warning mat for it during the winter to see if it will go dormant 🎉
I put my Alocasia to quarantine in my hallway, where the heater barely ever turns on. Safe to say she let me know that Dutch winter will not be tolerated, unless I put her in my cosy living room. Doing much better now.
Ah right!
Dutch winters are ruthless
Then imagin finnish winter. Sooo manyt plant lamps, warmers and humilitiser 😅
O m goodness, I’m ready to throw 3 of mine out. I’ll definitely try this thank you.😊
The way I've been through 3 already and 3 barely hanging on right now. This is good to know that it's them and not me
Always!
I've had my alocasia for about 6 months and It was doing great, 3 new leaves, great colors then one day I looked at her and she had yellow and black spots on 3 of her 6 leaves. I immediately removed the leaves and put her in quarantine. Remaining leaves looked good for a month then again...lost another. I removed her from the pot to see if she had root rot and found the nursery had started it in a net and the roots were not able to grow...I removed the net and found 4 croms inside🤗❤ Hope to see some new growth soon. Oh and baby Alocasias
I love my Alocasias, all ~20 of them (I think 9 species). Some are definitely more dramatic than others, but they are all beautiful. Growing plants from the corms is a treat too! They start life already acclimated to your home 💚💚
I’ve got some sprouting so 🤞
Show your babies
Your positivity is contagious!
😁
This was not only very helpful, but incredibly entertaining. I would listen to him read the back of a food label and be engaged!
😂 thanks!
This is a very timely video! I’ve tried growing these very alocasia numerous times before to only see the winter months take them out. I recently bought two alocasia black velvet plants at my local big box store because they had more than 3 leaves and I couldn’t resist the price! For fun I ordered a frydek placed the plants on my desk and crossed my fingers. I read somewhere that alocasia are big foodies so I started feeding them regularly. I have a desk lamp on my desk with just an LED bulb and pointed the lamp towards the plants.. 🌱 Eureka! I literally have 3 new leaves on the black velvet and one on the frydek in this cold ass city I live in😊. I may have success yet!
You're cracking the code 👌
I'm glad I watched your video before even considering buying an Alocasia.
*whispers* you’re still gonna buy it. I know you want to
There's nothing like those thick leaves, the texture is amazing, once you have one you can't keep your hands to yourself.
They are nice to be fair. Just got to expect dormancy if that’s your climate
Same
Same
It’s crazy how fast your channel grew❤️ keep up the good work
Thank you! Will do!
Over 300 good videos in 2 years! Would be crazy if it didn’t grow with that kind of consistency.
@@45lott ikr! He’s a beast! And those jokes always make your day!😆 He had just started when my plant addiction started
Mine has it's own UV light and I water it only when it gets dry. I give it Miracle Grow once every 6 weeks or so. It did all of this during the summer but actually started THRIVING during the winter - it now has five leaves and has even sprouted babies. The heater being on during the cold months seems to have woken it up. 👍🏻
Nice one
I've got my frydec in pon, and she's loving and living her best life😊.
Nice 👌
Honestly, highly recommend semi-hydro for alocasias, takes away a lot of the fuss. Mine are thriving through winter even on the colder windowsills.
Currently experimenting
@@SheffieldMadePlants can't wait to see ☺️
I put my bambino in perlite and she popped a leaf a week later 😍
@reeshaGG do you have to wash the semi-hydro if the alocasia gets spider mites. Mine got spider mites on my cold windowsill from maybe my pothos plant.
@Gkrissy I don't have experience in using any pesticide on my plants as I just have predatory mites running around
Chunky Aroid mix with lots of bark chips and perlite, charcoal etc will help control the watering situation as it will drain through straight away. Give it a water and wait ‘til it dries a little bit before the next water.
I found the fibrous cocoa coir/soil/perlite mixes retained too much water and contributed to root rot and was too easy to over water.
This chunky mix is also helpful for Calathea. Don’t let them go dry for long though, they hate that too! You’ll notice an uptick in watering demand as they start putting energy into new growth.
That is indeed the flower. Looks like a peace lily flower when it opens up. My Alocasia Bambino flowered a few times last year.
I found that Alocasias should come with a warning. Yes you will probably get Spider Mites and they will look ugly at some time of the year. Even in Florida it takes a while for them to come out of dormancy
Warning on the label would be good 😀
I love your videos and funny commentaries as well as expressions. You never fail to cheer me up when I have plant woes. My alocasia polly was throwing a hissy fit when we had a rainy and/or windy season even though I live in South-east Asia where it originates from. It had three sizeable leaves and then began yellowing, with one singular leaf remaining which was showing yellowing spots. I still watered it and fed it not knowing if it was going to survive but it hung on for several months. It is an outdoor growing plant placed along my flat corridor with lots of bright indirect light (usually). After months of it just looking like it is and very slowly deteriorating, I noticed a small young shoot growing out two days ago. Hooray!
Thanks for sharing 👍
YAY!! 🎉
@@vickykent353The new shoot's leaf is looking to be big. It's beginning to unfurl now.
@reddotdiva The wait was well worth it then. Like they say, Patience is a Virtue! I don't know if I could have done that with just the one leaf for so long. I might have done what Richard wants to do so often 😅 pitch it. It must have been very sad looking. Good going for hanging in there. And congratulations. You're a great plant mom.
Mine has lost all its leaves when it's getting cold in autumn last year. I forgot to put it indoor to shield from the cold. I still keep the plant and pray it will shoot up something in spring. Thanks for sharing. Now I don't feel as bad since it's my fourth attempt to grow it.
I had a friend give me alocasia on two separate occasions and each time only an hour after being home all the leaves wilted; no change in temperature and light exposure. Absolute divas.
Oh wow!
I'm never disappointed in your videos! Great info and fantastic humor🙃 I just checked the roots on my Alocasia today since her older leaves are getting droopy AND ironically just recieved my Oxalis Triangularis corms in the mail. So perfect timing for this video since you mention your purple shamrocks, as well💜☘
That is awesome!
I bought an Alocasia like your Zammy, it flourished put out a new shoot from underneath, even produced a flower bud like yours. Then it started going back in the summer. loosing leaves ( I thought it was burnt with the sun) Over the winter it has had three lovely leaves with no sign of problems. Am going to try a better feeding and watering routine. Thanks.❤
Thanks for sharing 👍
Ughh the uk is hard for plants in the winter especially when you're already in a low light house. I have to move all mine into the living room window and then pray for spring lol
I know right!
I got my first Alocasia Polly yesterday as a gift, and this video is a God-send!!! ❤🎉
Great stuff 👍
I love when you hug your plants in videos. This winter is the first time my black velvet went dormant. My Amazon is got spider mites and it’s in pon. I hope the spider mites didn’t kill it and I hope it is just going dormant.
They deserve it 😂. Hope those spider mites die off
They are so beautiful. I am saving for the Alocasia Frydek variegated type, but I have heard they are not so finnicky as some of the others!! Great information once again!
Looks nice that one
I got me a black velvet from the grocery store- I know big no no- but it was doing well and then leaves started turning. I thought old leaves they are dying off so I chopped them all off and then, boom I got me a new leaf. I surprised myself. I do find this video very helpful because this black velvet is my first Alocasia.
Glad you found it useful 👍
I rescued (bought) an alocasia from M&S today and the first thing I looked for was one of your videos for tips! It wasn’t in a great state as they have their plants next to the open fridges where the fruit and veg is, but I found a corm when I was checking the soil for root rot ☺️
Great stuff 👍
I got mine from M&S today! Let's see 😅
@@martabinieda9195 2 of the 4 leaves fell away in the first few days but the 2 left are healthy. I’ve also found another corm which means I’ve got lots of plants out of one purchase!
Yes, it's a bloom on your Alocasia cuprea 'Red Secret'.
This species seems to love putting out flowers. Mine is in perma bloom mode. As soon as I see them, I cut them out. Energy drain deluxe.
Thanks for the info!
Mine went from sad to super happy when i switched from soil to pon! And yes, water and food regularly. It’s nearly impossible to overwater them in pon. They also like an orchid pot for the oxygen.
Very satisfying plant to own because when they're happy, they show it. They really take off. You can almost just sit and watch them throw out leaf after leaf.
I live in New England and winters can be dark and brutal. Whenever we get a week that's particularly dark, I break out the grow lights.
I found some that you can just pop into the soil and set on a timer. When there's more sun, I just wipe them down and store them for next winter! I've had good results!
My frydek finally got over it's need for "one in one out" leaves after I put slow release fertilizer granules in it's medium. It's finally keeping it's leaves when it grows a new one!
Great stuff 👍
Information and dramatic interpretation all in 1 video! Epic! Oscar's for all. Keep it up. 🎉🎉🎉
Legend!
Question: when one of them loses all leaves (dormancy),…should I keep watering it or do I leave it to dry out and start watering in spring? Thank you for the whole video and answering this question
Still watering but a little bit less then before
Water when the soil dry. Aim is to keep the corms happy
Alocasias can also be very picky about impurities in their water. As soon as I used the water conditioner that Mr Sheffield recommended in an earlier video, my alocasias started to thrive.
Great stuff 👍
As I always do whatever I want, I have bought (yesterday) three alocasias (silver dragon, dragon scale and jacklyn - all in 6cm pots). They should arrive in about two days. As we are approaching colder months here in UK (end of Sep) and I learnt from the comments here that alocasias like it warm, I have also bought heat mats. My baby alocasias will be placed in NW window with max 2 hours direct sun... in summer. Wish me luck 🤣. I am planning to buy grow lights but didn't go that far yet.
That shoot in the alocasia cuprea is a flower. It's better to cut off as they're not pretty and it takes a lot of time and energy to mature and bloom.
Yeah didn't amount to much
I feel you so much on the Alocasia. They are so beautiful, but I can only keep them happy in semihydro with a water reservoir. Also I hate how mine are leaning sideways to the window, so I cut them all back as I was frustrated. Now they have a grow light from above and are hopefully growing prettier.
It looks like you Alocasia is about to flower. Are you planning on taking pollen?
Nothing really happened with it in the end. Just shrivelled up
Gm gm gm 👋🏾.. I'm new to the family hope all is well everyone 🤗. Just wanted to say I enjoy your channel and it's very helpful an informative. Thank you an happy planting.
I have a question 🤔 I have a burgundy rubber plant that was standing tall leaves were saluting 😁. My grown light fell a hit some branches now she's looking very sad and limpy. Any suggestions. I'm so worried about her😔..
Sorry.. I meant growing light 🤦🏾♀️😁
Welcome!!
Can you prune it to tidy it up?
I just moved my Stingray into the hydroponic grow room. The humidity, temperature and light is probably more hospitable to its fragile sensibilities. I plan on switching it to a hydro medium and see if it revives.🤞I live in the desert and rarely turn on the heat since the average indoor temp is in the low 70’s(F). The Stingray is the only plant that seems to be struggling.
I'm experimenting with semi hydro too
Neither of my alocasia's like to be watered... Strange as that may sound it's true. I haven't watered my big one for a few months and she seems happy, the little one is the same. Every time I would water, a whole beautiful leave would yellow and die so I got scared to water again. She is huge and takes up a whole corner and is around 4ft tall atm so... I will try the food for them both and a bit more water at spring time. Not sure what to do with them both, but they look healthy and happy.
That’s weird. Your soil must retain water
I planted my frydek and jacklyn outside (I live in northern Australia). Can confirm they were happy until Winter which gets down to about 9 degrees C, but they've popped up again in Spring - glad I didn't dig em up to bin them!
Well, what a relief to see this video! And here I was thinking what a terrible plant parent I was when my Alocasia's leaves went yellow. Nothing I did made it happy! Thanks to your advice, I will not be afraid to try this plant again. They are astonishingly beautiful, or at least I think so. Please keep making these videos, they are humorous, encouraging and informative. This information will save many plants from an untimely death in a garbage can or compost heap! cheers. 🥰🪴🌴☘🪴🌱🌻
Will do thank you
Thank you so much Mr Sheffield. I’ve just brought a Alocasia, which is in pretty good shape. And I brought it because it’s very beautiful 🤩 and I’m going to try to keep it that way, and I brought a water meter on you advice and I’m very glad I did. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags
Wonderful!
I live in Canada where winters are much colder than you and my Alocasia Bambino keeps on growing 🤷♀️ and doesn’t drop leaves. I only have one Alocasia going on two years old and she is big and beautiful with even some original leaves and giving me lots f babies.
i got an alocasia Jackyln a couple weeks ago .I spray it weekly with Neem oil to prevent bugs
From my experience (Poland) the growing light only doesn't do much. Alocasias need also higher temperature to thrive. And around 20*, which I have in winter in the middle of room (not by the windows I mean), seem to not satisfy alocasias. And I actually threw out Sarian and Zebrina, because they were so weak that they constantly had one leaf and spider mites. Even in summer the amount of light wasn't good for them. I tried to make them good environment for 3 years, and I just don't want to experiment anymore 😅
And yes, that "thing" is a flower. Some people are cutting it, because they are thinking flowers are taking plants energy. But sometimes alocasia won't stop giving flowers, so I usually hold one flower for a little longer, and then I cut it, and give plant more fertilizer for "greens", and less for "flowering" (especially for these in semi-hydroponics).
Yeah that flower didn't amount to much in the end
I enjoy your vids immensely! I bought my alocasia off a clearance rack with only 1 leaf. It shot out few more leaves in the summer but moved some plants in from outside in the fall and did not quarantine them. Alocasia got mites really bad and i didnt think it would survive. It lost all but 2 leaves. Up until ydy it had 7 leaves! But alas i had to cut 2 off. I think i had let it get too dry. Im amazed that it grew like that in the winter time especially since we had a really big snow with temps below freezing. But i guess im very fortunate! I have stopped feeding everything cause a lot of what i read said stop feeding in the winter when dormant. Should i start feeding again. Thx for all youd help!
Yeah best to stop feeding when it stops growing. Start again in spring
I got a few alocasias from small to giants. A few of mine had a huge mealybug problem to the point where i had to repot them and they hated it. A few months later and now they're just starting to bounce back extra strong.
also on the fertilizing stuff I found that a weak weekly routine works well. I only really use a foliar spray and they love it
Thanks for the tip
I went to the plant doctor for my alocacia just last week and got so much info on why the heck our relationship turned this winter. I got two of the unknown bulby leaf looking things in the Fall and everything else died off. The doc (just a friend at the nursery) said they are flowers! Don’t look it at all, but it’s their flower. 😆 so the plant is flowering and will use all its energy toward it, so if you want foliage to continue, you have to immediately cut off those flowering stems and it should continue back to growing just foliage again. I went a few months with just the flower things and it was unsightly. So glad I know now. But NOW I have the dormancy issue you talked about. It grew one leaf and then stopped. It isn’t even taking up water like it used to. I guess that’s part of the dormancy? I’m checking it every week and soil still damp enough where I can’t water it any more. I guess I’ll leave it be until it comes back from slumber. 😭
Thanks for the tip
Yes oof. My first batch of plants included one. I managed to keep it alive for 4 years now and it's even lost all its leaves at one point but came back. Now it's looking sad again. These brown spots too..
I only keep it because it's one of my oldest plants at this point. It reaps very small reward
Hehe i like it when it's happy tbf
I enjoy how funny your videos are! 😊
Glad you like them!
I bought a very sick looking little alocaría in Aug/Sept at Lowe’s for $2. It has been living outside under a tree and regularly jumped on by my dachshund. It’s almost 3 feet tall now…the magic if South Florida humidity and sunshine!
I bet it is!
North Florida here and my alocasias look better in my greenhouse in the winter, but we do get enough cold that they don’t thrive. The spider mites come out in the warm weather, though, and I haven’t been doing well about battling them!
@@sonyad.5942: I'm by Gainesville. I put my outside Alocasias in the greenhouse. They like it in there because it's warm. If I try and bring inside they hate it
For alocasia I'd recommend semi hydro. Specifically pon. Really handy for holidays. Have also been experimenting with keeping them in orchid medum with a little extra soil mixed in (scimilar conditions for zygopetalum) which has worked really well so far.
I’m experimenting with that
I'm Irish and I do say what the bejesus is happening to my alocasias! I bought loads of different ones, and they are now all corms sitting in my grow cabinet. I kind of hate them now but also can't wait until they return from the dead
Haha love it! The resurrection thing is quite fun tbf
Yes, that's a bloom coming up. I was confused when mine first did that, too.
Cheers!
I put mine under a grow light and it just put out a new leaf. 🥰
Happy days!
I live in Stockholm (at a latitude north of mainland Scotland)
and my Alocasia has got 7 leaves all through winter without any extra lighting and only 16 C in the room.
I got mine last October. It was a small thing back then so I put it on my desk under a grow light. Man it took off! It put on flowers at Christmas and is about ready to flower again and has 12 leaves. So far I have only lost one leaf and trimmed a couple damaged ones off but it is still growing like a demon! The only thing I do different than you is I keep a layer of sphagnum moss on the surface of the soild for water retention. I notice that this also causes roots to grow right about the soil I der the moss.
Thanks for the tip
Big box had Ninjas marked down to $5.......and I fell for it!!😭😭😭😭 as per usual, it was in a deco pot and retaining far too much moisture. Got all wonky and nasty, now in the plant closet enjoying some grow lights and getting to know the rest of the gang it will be living with at summer camp. Fingers crossed.
Sounds like a nice place to hang out
Same story here: big box, $5, marked Alocasia but no variety. She was the last one, so I thought it would be interesting to try to resurrect her. Leaves dead as a hammer, but roots and bulbs/corms/whatever look great. I was a little embarrassed to carry her out of the store, but I can't resist a challenge.
Mr. Sheffield, you have given me information, courage, and good cheer. She's currently in rehab.😊
I have a few Alocasia plants that are (miraculously) surviving, but the first one I had, I also threw away because I did not realise that it was going through a dormancy period! But now, the ones that I do own are fine. Although one likes to keep it as two leaves and only two leaves. Every single time that it grows a new leaf, one of the older ones suddenly dies and dramatically whispers, "peace out..." and I hate that, lol!
Yeah it's weird they do that
I've found that feeding them roughly every 2 weeks with a liquid houseplant fertilizer can help them retain leaves in their dormant period. If you don't want scraggly looking dead leaves lying around, then pruning off the dead leaf once it's, for lack of a better term, crispy helps a bunch. The plant has already gotten what it needed from that leaf and taking it away can help keep the plant healthy.
Mine got a little cold damage when we bought it and it predictably dropped the worst affected leaves. It then lost everything that wasn't new growth through winter despite my best efforts. Alocasia are gonna alocasia. It looks like it's woken up though, as I can see a new bud emerging from the base. Fingers crossed for leaf number 4.
You threw that poor plant in the trash?! Imagine waking up from dormancy buried alive by rubbish. You monster
I hope you're joking because that's not how dormancy works 😂
😂
I swear by growing alocasia in Lechuza pon with their slow release fertiliser. I have never experienced dormancy with any alocasia (with only 8 hours of day light in winter, 60 % humidity) - the Lechuza pon and fertiliser make a huge difference. They grow like mad in it. My largest is Silver Dragon with 13 leaves and a 5 leaves baby plant. I grow all my alocasias in Lechuza pon with self-watering system.
P.S. Your Alocasia azlanii is blooming :-)
It’s also dying 😭
All my alocasias are in semihydro and fertilized well or they die. There is barely any light now in the winter and they lost most of their leaves, but that's how it goes
I got myself two moisture meters. One for upstairs and one for downstairs. 😅
Like your style
I thought I had done something wrong, i had to remove 2 recently healthy leaves.. mind you, its booming now..our aussie summer is making it happy..
I believe that it is an inflorescence. I don’t allow my Alocasia to dry out. I keep them a little moist like my Anthurium. I water when the top inch or so dries out. Has worked for me so far. I do find some Alocasia sturdier than others. My cuprea, dragonscale and scalprum are beasts and cause me no problems. The variegated frydek is a drama queen. Spider mites are the worst thing that happens in my opinion, but more often happens in summer when it’s hot.
Thanks for sharing 👍
It's a growth point. My main black velvet has had 15 of them in 2 years, 2 or 3 new plants have grown from them and another that is still attached. I need to research more about how they work.
I treat Alocasias, Calatheas and Marantas like perennials after recycling my potting soil and finding them popping up in spring in the new pot with the new plant. I even found a LECA in water sprouting. Turned out to be a corm! I retrieve the LECA when recycling you see.😊
Good tip 😁
when i put my alocasia in direct sunlight they started to grow beautifully...
You are so entertaining while you share your knowledge.
I appreciate that!
I just went through this, the leave kept turning yellow, and i thought i was killing it. I cut the leaves off. Hopefully it will come back from dormancy. Thanks for the helpfull information!
fingers crossed!
Too late - mine's already been binned. However I will now have another go
Good morning to you vary nice thank you for sharing your amazing video I always watch them
Thanks so much
I have all my alocasia in leca/ pon and they love it. Their growth and behavior highly depends on the specific plant as well, my regal shield put out 3 big (~30cm) leafes during winter and my green shield just exsisted with no growth or leaf loss. And they can tollerate colder temperatures (12°C at night), at least mine can. Mild drafts arent that bad either, my window whistles when it's windy and they sit in front of it. They just need good light, mine are in a south facing (dirty xD) window.
I’m experimenting with that 👍
I couldn't help it... Right when you say "Alocasias are sensitive souls", I couldn't help but call my two Alocasias to my right drama queens 😂 It looks like both of mine need to move under the grow lights and have more feedings (I may have been putting that off for too long 😅). Thank you for sharing this! I'm sure my drama queens will thank you, too! lol
My pleasure 😊
I live in the mid-Atlantic area of the US. I love alocasias and have about 6 different kind right now. I struggled with them losing leaves, dying back and never having more than three leaves at a time. 😢 All that changed when I moved some of them into leca (actually IKEA’s brand). I added one grow light because the room they’re in is facing North west and the ones in Leca are huge with multiple big, healthy leaves. Even the smaller ones which are in soil are doing great! I confess to letting them go drier than I should and usually use regular fertilizer (not hydroponic type, and certainly never do the three step deal that Leca says to use). I’ll probably switch over the smaller ones to Leca in the Spring. I recently discovered your channel and I love it!
Thank you 😊
Well Hello Mr Sheffield!.
I am kind of New to Alocasia Plants. I did toss a few out thinking they died! I have a Silver Dragon that is Loving Life still, and I live in Ontario, Canada. Where we have Cold Winters!
My Dragon Fella lives on top of my Stove. And I have a Grow Light in the Fan Hood and Shes Loving it!
The other one is the Zebra Plant that is quite a Diva. She is always thirsty! I water her, and she springs right back into her Gorgeous Self! How long will they keep Being Happy for me? No idea! But im really enjoying them❤
Question-
When do you suggest i repot them? Seeing how im always watering them? Ofcourse my place is dry. So theres that😮
Thankyou for your Amazing Awesome Channel!!! I learn alot!
I would love to see your puppy more! And maybe a vlog with your wife and kids! That would be fun!
Thankyou!!!
From one of your Loving Canadian Fans!
❤🤗❤️🐾🌿🇨🇦
Thanks! You've got some nice plants there! Are they rootbound. Repotting can be done anytime honestly
Ooooo! Maybe they are Rootbound! I definitely will check that for sure! Thankyou so much!
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I just bought an Alocasia Silver Dragon last night, wish me luck
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I remember throwing away my oxalis and my alocasia, I thought it was dead :) Right now my alocasia's are in dormancy and I'm looking for another oxalis :)
I'm glad I found out about Alocasia's secrets😮
Cheers!
I had the same issue but when I see the beautiful foliage I can’t bear to part. So I just keep feeding and put in a diffuse light window. It has only ever given 3 leaves in 2 years. But they are healthy leaves.
Thank you 😊
Fabulous video, so much work went into every single second of it! I'm an Alocasia lover, them and bananas, and have so much to learn about Alocasias before I progress to Pharoah's Mask, my ultimate ambition.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm one of those people spoiled with southern California weather. I've been dipping my toe into alocasia ownership. *fingers crossed* that I can keep them alive.
You’ve got this ✊
Thank you for the bin shot. I know you put it in just for me. I have 2 Pollys that are great. I lost 2 starters. The shipping was too stressful for them.
It's a popular bin 😁
Hey just found your channel.Love it.Very helpful.Thanks.Happy greetings from germany 🙋
Awesome! Thank you!
Good vid! Wish I'd seen it before my yucatan princess died and had learn the hard way too. I feel ya 😂
Btw, it is indeed a flower!
Thanks!
Very interesting! Not got one of them yet, not ready for that kind of stress ;-) I saw a bunch of them in a local DIY place, and, for a moment there, I was very tempted.
BTW.... it's Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD for short...now there's a handy hint right in the acronym...!). Affective vs effective - two completely different words with different meanings.
They're a hassle
I put all mines in water with grow lights and they are beautiful
I was given one by my wife last night, a wentii she’s a big girl and I’m so in love.
My polly looked just like yours and I though she was dying so I removed her from the soil 2 weeks ago and put her in perlite. She seems happier, so far anyway.
They seem to like perlite
@@SheffieldMadePlants hope so for her 🤣
So I had an alocasia that declined and I didn't throw it out, luckily. I just checked and the bulbs are still alive. What do I do with them once it's spring? How do I plant them?
Treat it like a normal plant with tons of light and new leaves should start to emerge
I am an Alocasia 😂 but joking aside I bought a Ghost Dragon in the fall and every time he grows a new leaf its smaller on a really tall leggy stem.
The only thing I can think of to compare him to is a Dr. Seuss drawing.
I've put him into a south window with my purple oxalis which also looks skimpy and leggy.
He turns to the sun but he has guttation on his leaves and they are turning wet and brown at the tip, I'm totally discouraged, I know looks aren't everything in a relationship but he's just let himself go.
He has a new leaf coming and I'm waiting to see if it's going to be any bigger...........😢
By the way my purple oxalis is two toned isn't yours? And my leaves are more triangular and they move with the light, they open and close.
You're lucky, it's bloody dark here by three o'clock and we've had two days so far where I saw the sun😢 we've got February March and April to get through and of course in all my wisdom I get all new plants in the fall, I'm even trying a lithops, don't ask about the one that I tried 20 years ago, it went poof! and disapeared 😱🥺
Not got a two toned oxalis. Does that mean variegated?
@@SheffieldMadePlants if you google oxalis triangularis you get a good picture of the dark and light color on the leaves
Ah, alocasia. My best friends and worst enemies. I kept telling people I don't know why they love me but they did. I was a complete beginner and my silver dragon, cuprea and polly were being happy little campers, thriving and growing. Until this autimn when the polly's leaves started crisping up, the silver dragon killed off all but one root and had to be transferred to water, and the cuprea got spider mites. I got a wentii that hated me in the beginning and I got mad and threw it out on the balcony for a month with zero watering. That one is the only one that's behaving now suddenly. I'll never figure out what exactly it is they want but I do love them.
A mixed bag then!
Love your info and sense of humor 😂🤌🌿
Thanks!
All of mine went outside yesterday. Spider mites all the time. They will die, but until they are dead I can’t admire them without the contamination.
Oh no!
I've inherited my mums massive alocasia, not had one before. It needs a repot, but I dont know much about this one, the label doesn't say what variety it either