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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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pLantwH0reJH

new leaf on my jacklyn! hopefully shes huge

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fuey

My azlanii is pushing out a new leaf! Yay! The big green leaf has had these dots for a few months and they have stayed like that. And no, it is not thrips. I check him 2-3x per month and spray with neem oil each time. He also has systemic granules in the soil. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas of what it was or how I can make Nyx thrive. The dying leaf in the back was deformed when it came out so i’m not surprised it’s falling off, but a new leaf is coming from it too so I haven’t cut it.

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Two Green Thumbs

Hi! I just purchased my first Alocasia - it’s a baby Alocasia Jacklyn. Almost my entire plant collection is made up of Hoya so needless to say I’m nervous. Any advice or tips to keep this plant happy and healthy would be so appreciated!!!! Thank you :)

New Plant Mom

I have three problem Alocasias. First off my Yucatán princess is always getting mites (in soil). She does amazing and bounces back and after she puts out a new leaf, the older one starts yellowing and I start to see mites and fuzzy white bugs. Is this a forever maintenance plant where I have to treat for bugs once a month? Second, my Polly is bad, like so bad I don’t even want to show pictures bad. I switched it to hydroponics and it’s slightly better but still browning. No bugs, just struggling to live. What do I do? And lastly, my dark star got spider mites on all but two leaves. I decided to just chop them and new leaves are coming in, but is it common for them to always get spider mites? I want to make sure I keep that one separate if that’s the case. The dark star is in hydro too. All follow a fertilizer schedule and watered as needed. I love Alocasias but I’m struggling with these three and bugs.

leaf

This guy used to be doing so well but is now down to 2 leaves! It was thriving when I got it over a year ago and grew a few leaves. It now has been stable for the past few months with just these 2 but I’m worried it might die. I keep the soil relatively moist/follow planta’s timeline. I mist it occasionally and even keep a plate of water underneath it to help with humidity. Any suggestions?

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monster_maniac

droopy dragon scale it was great when i got it and my other knes are fine idk what up w this one light is good and humidity is good bc its in my bathroom its js a bit sad and its been a few weeks so idk i did repot her but she should have adjusted by now

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Kayla

My newest addition! Any tips or recommendations to help this baby thrive? What’s your favorite growing medium for Alocasias? I feel like I usually see people use pon or leca

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Macie

My corms waking up from winter and I didn’t label them! Never forgetting to label again! And there are more Thant haven’t put a leaf out yet 🫣

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Gaileen Joy

Alas. My Mythic Sinuata has a serious issue. 😳 She was doing great. But I added a grow light, and I’m thinking I put it too close. In just two days I lost a leaf. I moved that grow light, but a couple of days later, lost another leaf. As I was checking the stem, the whole thing just kinda popped off in my hand. Then I thought maybe she had root rot. But no. The roots looked good. There were several (corms?). One as big around as my index fingernail, three or four more as big as a small pea. I stuck them all (along with the roots that were attached to them) into a pot with soil. Did I do the right thing? Or should they go into water to propagate? Any other suggestions!

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allison 🌞🍃

Make some commotion for my quicksilver pls!! She is just so pretty!

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Kayla

I got this Alocasia Bisma in the mail a couple days ago, I removed the peat and put it in soil and it seems to be doing ok… for now. Any recommendations? I always damage my Alocasia back down to the corm 😬 no problem growing it back but when they have leaves they hate me

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🪴 Botanical Bekka🌵

I'm concerned that this leaf is turning red last time this happened it died the sunroom is around 70 degrees and 70% ish humidity I have it in the east facing bright window with a sheer curtain what am I doing wrong do you think I need to downsize the pot? 🤦😩

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Fyreflie1980

We recently moved and the bottom three leaves fell off this poor baby. What do I do to save her?

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Plantguncle78

He has finally found a spot he likes 😂

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Lindsey

my pink bambino’s newest leaf 🎀

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Pl@nt M@ma

My little alocasia that my friend gave me as seeds. And then 1 or my 3 leaves died and the newest sprout dried up 😭 Any advice for caring for these beauties?

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Josie

Can someone tell me which alocasias these are? The stem picture is for the one with the light green leaf. The darker one I know is supposed to be a darker green/burgundy color once matured. Forgot to use Apple photos to identify the darker one because I chopped off its bad leaves, and it can’t identify the lighter one.

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Lili

Such a looker 🤩🤩

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laura 🩷🪴

What is your favorite growing medium for alocasias? I’m thinking I’d like to repot this one into pon — curious how you all have seen the most success with growing these beauties.

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Mo

Just posting my dragon scale because she’s so pretty

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