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Jules

I have a sprouted Alocasia Baginda (Pink Dragon) corm in a small sauce container with perlite and fluval stratum. I bought it on FB Marketplace and since I’ve brought it home it has done nothing for me. When I brought it home it had one leaf and appears to have another trying to start. That’s being said, it hasn’t done much of anything. I know something must be wrong with the conditions I’m providing so I’m trying to pinpoint what’s going wrong. For reference, it’s winter where I live (probably not the best time to bring this plant home, I know), we have a Woodstove that makes the ambient humidity 20% so I keep it under a glass jar with water sprayed inside and I let it breathe for about an hour each day. It gets bright indirect light from the window where it sits most of the time and direct sun for the hour that it’s out since I move it to the kitchen when the sun comes in. The new leaf shoot just looks crinkled and isn’t growing. Roots looks healthy. I did pull off 6 tiny corms and I’m trying to get those started just in case this plant doesn’t make it. Any advice is welcome.

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  1. Wolfen 🐺

    Honestly, if you haven't lost the one leaf you're doing really well. Since it was corming, most of it's energy was there and not on new leaves. You could give it a dilution of fertilizer to replenish it's nutrients.

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    • Jules

      Any fertilizer recommendations?

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    • Wolfen 🐺

      Maxsea is a 16-16-16 that works really well. I usually do a 1/4 dilution first to not overload a plant

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    • Jules

      I can use this for hydroponic plants too?

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    • Wolfen 🐺

      Yes

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  2. Delani

    How did you do that I had some corms of the same plant and i can’t grow them

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    • Jules

      I didn’t grow this one. I bought it on Facebook marketplace and it had corms on it that I’m trying to propagate. I’ve heard that a lot of people have luck with perlite, moss, or just shallow water in a prop box though. Best of luck to your corms!

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