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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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Josie

Does anyone know what’s up with the undersides of these leaves? They’re healthy and no signs of pests and they haven’t had any trauma.

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Queen Anne plant dad

Happy cuprea! Bigger already by now since these were taken

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New Plant Mom

Help! My alocasia is yellowing 😢

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Dory

My Frydek is making babies!😍

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LaMP

This is my very first colocasia, Elephant Ear 💕 I bought this bulb back in May. Two weeks ago I saw this sprout, and in the past 5 days the leaf has unfurled. It has been absolutely amazing to watch 🤩 I am totally in love 🥰 There are six more knubs poking out of the soil and I cannot wait to continue to watch this grow!

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Em

Am I delusional??? How is my black velvet flowering? Just these last few weeks it got spider mites and I had to cut off 3 leaves leaving only one lonely little guy. I could’ve sworn this guy was close to being done for Don’t judge my little name tags lol

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PlantLovingGirlie

My newest lil funky alien leaf 👽

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Maddi

Just looking to get some opinions on my Bambino. To me she looks wilty and also has a ton of growth now. Still in the original nursing pot. I don’t know if I should repot with some chunkier soil ? The roots are not really coming out yet but she just doesn’t look super happy right now and her soil has been taking kind of a while to dry out. Any pointers would be appreciated as I’m pretty new to the having a green thumb thing.

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Terryn

Hi guys. I bought this plant from Trader Joe’s a few weeks ago and the soil it was in was god awful so I repotted it and is has slowly lost all of its leaves and I thought maybe it was going to lose just the smaller ones but now it’s losing a bigger one. Any tips? Is the whole plant going to die? Will it come back? Thanks!

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Jay

I’m new to alocasias, has anyone got any tips for my two new babies? 🥹

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Al

i accidentally plant my alocasia corm upside down! and it looked like this. is it gonna be okay? and should i cover with more soil so that the sprout is not visible from the surface? please help thank you!!

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Clare Taylor

In June I switched to semi-hydro with this Alocasia Wentii in a last ditch effort to encourage some more growth. I was just about to throw in the towel when I spotted this. I was so excited and relieved I may have actually ’gasped’! 😊

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DrMom2025

My silver dragon is very happy and pushing a new leaf. She’s got roots coming from the pot - do I repot or just try to take her out of the pot and place the roots back in? I feel like she’s got more room in the pot for roots.

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Whitney

I need some advice for my Tiny Dancer. She went through a time where she was down to just about 2 healthy leaves. I repotted with better soil (chunky mix), and checked the roots. She perked up a bit and I was starting to have 5-6 healthy leaves at a time. Recently she’s starting to lose more leaves than she’s gaining again. I have her under a grow light (not much natural light in my house) set at 12 hr/day, wait till she’s pretty dry on top to water, and use liquid fertilizer as recommended on Planta. Any advice? Pictures of the current leaves and a couple I pruned off today.

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Beauty

So I went to Bjs to buy food came out with this plant that was screaming for me to buy it. What kind of Alocasia is this? Is it a jewel? I cut the blooms off.

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Plantmom

My alocasia Frydek has come back from almost dying over the past winter, put her outside and she perked right up!

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Queen Anne plant dad

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Mike Espitia

Kitchen hack!!! Decided to use a cake display dome for my baby Alocasia Korms and it works like a charm! Keeps the humidity in. I remove the top occasionally and use a paper towel to crack the space to let some air in!

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Mike Espitia

Alocasia jungle in my back yard!!! Aka banana leaf!

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Mike Espitia

Hi! I’m Addicted to alocasia plants!!! Here’s a sneak peak!

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