Help! I finally ordered my alocasia flying squid and it came in the mail last Friday and it’s already lost 3 leaves and a fourth one has begun to droop hard since this morning. It came in a 2” plastic pot in one of those little spongey plugs and some soil shoved on top. It was falling out of the pot and the plug was crumbly when I opened it so I removed the plug bits and put it in a mix of perlite, bark, peat and soil in a 2” terracotta pot and watered it. No root rot or anything, roots looked good but it’s so tiny the root system isn’t large. Watered again today, the soil was already mostly dry since it’s so small. I’ve been an alocasia killer in the past so I really don’t want to kill this little guy 😭 do yall think the lost leaves are just from travel stress? Or maybe temperature change? It did come from Florida and I’m in western PA. The day it arrived was the beginning of much colder weather here (like only hitting 70 degrees daytime and it was 45 last night). It’s inside under a grow light but we’ve had a few windows open during the day and no heat turned on at night yet since it’s August and this is weird weather. It’s still around 66-68 degrees in the house at night with windows closed. What do yall think? Suggestions? Picture with plastic pot was Friday, other picture is today. Killing an alocasia in under a week would be a record low for me 🥴
