Repotting my Alocasia & wanted to try growing these corms. The last time I tried the corms rotted on me ☹️ I added perlite to the moss this time, hopefully it helps. I’ll put the lid on the container to maintain humidity & put it underneath a grow light.
I’m working on 2 Alocasia Longiloba corms right now. First attempt with corms. I scraped off a very thin layer of the outside of the corm with an exacto knife, put them in a glass jar filled with fluval stratum, added water and sealed the top with a lid. The humidity is exactly what the corms wanted/needed. I also put the jar under a grow light and on top of a seed mat. This is 10 days later. 💚 Good luck!!
The little roots are so cute! 😭 I’ve heard good things about people propping with stratum. I’ve never used it before tho.
2개 좋아요I was recently turned on to stratum through YouTube. I’ve had great success so far with it. And I am NOT a plant pro so I have no idea what I am doing. Lol. YouTube taught me that stratum works and it does. My props thrive this medium. Even over Winter. 🙌🏼
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Awesome 🤞🏼 the videos I watched said they had better success using only perlite so that’s what I did with mines this was the first pic I got more progress now I’ll take a picture once I get home but I’m sure it should be fine with the sphagnum moss just be careful of too much moisture I was told you don’t want to rot the seed
And I got this from a sick silver dragon I bought to practice my recovery skills and I checked the roots to it yesterday and it has more corms developing but can’t wait to see your babies good look🤞🏼
Fluval stratum!!!
0개 좋아요I use a moss and perlite mix for all my corms, I find it’s very low maintenance. Fluval stratum is also another good choice but I find it more finicky than moss. I’ve lost a lot more corms to rot in fluval than moss.
좋아요 1개 Would you suggest propping the lid open at all? I fear it’ll be too much humidity. I did squeeze out any excess water from the moss prior & misted lightly after the corms were placed.
0개 좋아요I have mine completely covered until they get about an inch tall, but you could totally prop it open or poke holes in it to manage the humidity. I check on mine quite frequently to monitor them for rot and so far I’ve only lost 1 or 2 out of the 25 or so that I’ve had growing this way.
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