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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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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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
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
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!!
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?
Lisa
Can someone tell me what this is , it's outside
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. ❤️)
Nikki
My Frydek is finally doing well!
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.
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?
Jay Grebinger
My Polly's new home.
Tellie
My Zebrina. 😭 she’s my first Alocasia. In the beginning I was struggling. Only could keep two leaves on her. Now look at us. 5 leaves later. I’m like she really does like me. I can’t believe she’s 3 years old. The damaged leaf is from when she got knocked off her stand by my daughter 😭.
Cris
Went to the store JUST for soil.... came home with this beauty. Alocasia Black Cobra
Nikiller
I just got my first alocasia today, I just finished washing his leaves off with some leaf cleaning spray as he was extremely dusty. I noticed all this browning on the edges of all the lower leaves, and all of the new leaves are about half the size of the largest ones. Is the browning something I should be worried about or is that more likely old damage from shipping/life at the store? I asked how long the plant was in the store and I was told they arrived the week before Mother’s Day. I have plenty of grow lights for him to stay in bright light all day and I know they like a chunkier soil mix than the store has it in, but I’ll get to replanting on another day.
Charlotte
Hello, I recently got an alocascia melo. She was thriving when I took her home but after about a week shes gotten a little droopy and a leave has started to brown. Ive got her under a growlight and in a pretty humid spot. Any ideas. Ive made sure to not overwater her and she has great drainage.
BlondeinBrooklyn
WTF is up with this petiole? Never seen one like this. Looks like a flower bud.
Meg
My first Alocasia! Found her in the “please save me” bin at my local big box. She has come a long way in just a week! She was droopy and so fried. I took a chance for $3 on this now thriving regal shield. Any advice would be appreciated! She’s been repotted because she was so tall she couldn’t stand on her own, she also has been treated for pests (organic mix for sensitive plants) and been fertilized with liquid fertilizer (purived). Shes in a tropical mix I make but considering partial hydro in the future once she can handle it and is not in recovery.
Madderdebs
I was about to toss this alocasia because it was a stalk with one leaf, now there’s multiple points of new growth popping up from soil. So the naked stalk, let it be? Chop it to the soil once the growth is more established? Keiki paste?
