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title: "Hi, my alocasia leaves flopped off this morning and were mushy. I…"
description: "Hi, my alocasia leaves flopped off this morning and were mushy. I removed the stems and cleaned them off. What should I do now to get the leaves to come back?"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/n6FdGXkSPqzMlfVwm2pSAR"
community: "Alocasia Aficionados"
author: "MaisysHotMom"
published: "2025-12-14T18:15:43.543599Z"
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# Hi, my alocasia leaves flopped off this morning and were mushy. I…

_Posted by MaisysHotMom on 2025-12-14_

Hi, my alocasia leaves flopped off this morning and were mushy. I removed the stems and cleaned them off. What should I do now to get the leaves to come back?

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## 2 comments

### Amie206 commented on 2025-12-14

Spray with hydroperoxide. Put in straight perlite or perlite stratum, put in a grow box/tent and keep a close eye on it. As ling as the rhizome is solid, it will start putting out new leaves

### CorranQ commented on 2025-12-25

If you don’t have perlite you can also put them in straight up sphagnum moss! I had a corm that was refusing to propagate but after a month in sphagnum it went nuts and now has three stems lol!

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