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title: "I let my alocasia flower and now it’s drooping!! Is this normal? Does…"
description: "I let my alocasia flower and now it’s drooping!! Is this normal? Does it just need time to recover or am I doing something wrong?"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/-8esQpY8S9ibVkVzdPimVw"
community: "Alocasia Aficionados"
author: "Freedomskai"
published: "2024-02-01T15:39:25.963855Z"
language: "en"
image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/n4CbuBoW0IeKun1XARSIq2SLMPbZOy-wijudvk8RJyQ/g1feop3BRn-WfCNO0LRkqQ.webp?size=large"
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# I let my alocasia flower and now it’s drooping!! Is this normal? Does…

_Posted by Freedomskai on 2024-02-01_

I let my alocasia flower and now it’s drooping!! Is this normal? Does it just need time to recover or am I doing something wrong?

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## 3 comments

### Kim commented on 2024-02-01

I do let all my alocasias flower-I do make sure they are getting fertilized regularly especially when I notice an inflo starting. I now fertilize them weakly with every watering. The lighting is hard to tell in your photo-is it getting a good dose of bright indirect light where it’s at? That may play in also.

#### Freedomskai replied on 2024-02-02

It’s getting indirect light and also has a grow light on it for 8 hours a day so I think it’s good there! But I actually haven’t fertilized which is probably the problem! 🫣 it’s my first winter with my plants and I decided to not fertilize and didn’t connect the dots that since it’s flowering it needs extra nutrients! Thank you!

### Jaiden commented on 2024-02-04

I cut off my head flowers cause it takes too much energy from the plants development and normally a week after cutting it off a new leaf forms

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