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Alocasia Aficionados

Discover the beauty of Alocasias and Colocasias with fellow plant lovers, share tips, and embrace the joy of cultivating these exotic treasures.

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Mel

I dont know what she ate, her leaves have more than doubled in size!! I love this little girl! My 2nd alocasia. She was near dead on the HD discount shelf. Has come such a long way 🥰

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Mikel’s Plant Posse

My second Alocasia! My plant shop has it labeled as a Lauterbachiana purple sword. Planta doesn’t know that one exists…what should I label it in this app!?

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Gonelikefocus

My Longi surprised me with a huuuge leaf size up! I let my alos look out the window so I forget sometimes how amazing they are!!

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Mikel’s Plant Posse

Just got Falcor yesterday! The newest leaf there, is it only about half as big as it will become? How long do they typically take between new leaves?

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Mikel’s Plant Posse

My first introduction into the Alocasia world! 🥳🪴 I’d like everyone to meet Falcor!!! He was in the half off section of a great local plant shop here in the Orlando area! Shout out to The Jungle Room by BWH Plant Co!

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jadesmish

Today’s score! $15 😍

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Violette

What method of transplanting will have the highest success rate? I used to have two separate corms with leaves but this is the only one that made it after some problems with mealy bugs and root rot. I’d hate to have this one die after it’s made it this far! 😓

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Jay Grebinger

Local store finds. Found the Cuprea at Publix. Found the Dragon Scales and Silver Dragons at Lowe's.

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エンゼルベビー💖

Don't know anything about Alocasia but I finally repot my Alocasia cuprea last night. How did I do? I’m testing out this semi-hydro setup! #alocasia #cuprea #redsecret

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Shelbie

Hey alocasia lovers, don’t be a dummy like me and somehow confuse alocasia’s and Calatheas. lol they don’t even resemble. But my mistake was thinking it’s corms and not rhizomes. Don’t cut your rhizomes calathea parents. Your roots will brown and leaves will loose color immediately. I don’t care what you try she’s dead in 3 days tops.

Lost Hyperion 🪴

Ms Polly lives on ✨️ let's see if I have better luck with these corms that I was able to salvage

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エンゼルベビー💖

Just bought this baby from the swap meet and it’s a little beat up. It’s my first alocasia so any advice would be greatly appreciated! 😅 #alocasia #redsecret #rescue

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Alesha

Hi guys! So my alocasia pushed off a nee leaf and dropped an old one which isn’t surprising but after shes getting yellow and im scared shes dropping her biggest leaves i thought it was too much light so i moved her away from the grow light but she keeps getting worse!!

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BigGahoona

Trader Joe’s did it to me again. I just brought home an Alocasia Polly. My first Alocasia of any kind. I understand they have a little drama that comes with them? Current state: I checked and don’t see any bugs. The soil is dry the top two inches. And I thought I would let her sit ‘as is’ for a couple of weeks to acclimate and then assess for repotting. Does anyone have any additional advice or suggestions?

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Lisa

Can someone tell me what this is , it's outside

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Petals n pothos

I saved this alocasia lutea from the discount table at my favorite local nursery about a month ago. Today she said thanks with this gorgeous new leaf. (She also had about a dozen corms wren I got her so there will be giant taro all over my house soon. ❤️)

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Nikki

My Frydek is finally doing well!

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RootedInPeace

Ok, so I heard that Alocasias are dramatic. But this whole “drop a full grown healthy leaf to pop out a baby leaf” gives me a mild heart attack EVERY time 😩😩

Nikiller

I got this alocasia cuprea today and this is the condition it was in. I noticed it’s pretty much the same damage as the new Polly I got from a different store last week however the soil seems a much better and airy mix than the Polly was in. I just replanted the Polly (actually discovered it was 2 of them) and saved the root system from the evil cloth of death that was still wrapped around the base. I’m going to wait on replanting this one as well but I found this big orange ball on top of the soil in the cuprea and the small white ones in the Polly. These are my first alocasia but I’ve seen online they make corms to reproduce, is that what these all are? I thought my Polly would be way too small to start a family and wouldn’t expect to find the cuprea having kids above soil level. The cuprea also looks to be 2 separate plants as well so maybe we’ll have to separate them as well.

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Tay

Hello! I need some help with identifying what kind of alocasia this guy is. Planta says black velvet and Gemini says Melo. Which is he? Or perhaps neither?

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