Haley
Hey so uuuuh was the tag on this plant I rescued just totally wrong and I just have some stupid Chinese potato? I mean, I don't hate it. But it doesn't seem platinum.
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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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Emma 🤍🌱
Looking for help with my Pink Polly. Any ideas on why the tip is changing colors and curling up?
Plant_Punker138
Found this healthy looking lady at lowes today and had to bring her home. Also found this coffee plant on clearance and my daughter fell in love with it. I do love a good project plant
Pthomas
Making a comeback!
Mel
I swear these little "pouches" were purposely designed to harbor spider mites!! Im doing my best fighting to keep the little a-holes out of my house!! But!! BUT, it seems no matter what measures taken this little cutie breeds them like no tomorrow!! She is little because Ive cut her back to the soil once already. On top of preventative spraying all of my plants, I keep this one covered with diatomaceous earth, (not enjoyable) when a new leaf unfurls-bam! Im so close to "gifting" this plant and never bring one back in to my home. If anyone has other suggestions, please share. I'm beyond desperate
Mel
First time ever!!! that this has happened to me, pot fell over and snapped 3 leaves right off 😮💨 Chocolate empress philo fell with it,and survived unscathed
bear
does anybody have any idea what kind of alocasia this is? it’s got thin, shiny, flat leaves. i think the leaves are too thin to be a green unicorn, and since i’ve ruled that one out i’ve been stumped. any ideas guys…?
itsQueenReaper
Im so excited! My very first set of corms are finally shooting off their new leaf! 2 out of 3 were potted up today, still waiting on the last one to do anything. What is everybody's advice for a successful propagation? 🪴
Tellie
Found this beauty at Raley’s today $8
Mikel’s Plant Posse
Amadou (The praised one)!!! Walmart had this gem for $20! Had to, right!?
Montana
3 month update. My first Alocasia. She was in rough condition before the first picture. - Now I have 7. Tropics in Montana 😎
Jay Grebinger
Repotted and moved an Alocasia Low Rider from soil to pon about 2 months ago. Found a hand full of corms in the root ball. Now a few of these were lose in the root ball and some I pulled off. Got a big surprise when some of the larger ones started growing. I'm guessing the nursery must have reused a pot and soil because these are not Low Riders. I'm pretty sure these are baby Black Velvets. I recently bought a Black Velvet but at the time of this report we didn't and have never owned one. Isn't she beautiful. We have 3 of them like this now😁
Mikel’s Plant Posse
Excalibur, my Alocasia purple sword, is dancing around with his new leaf…I move him to where I think the light will bent things back, but it’s a tough battle…any suggestions? I have bonsai wire?
Alocasia Baddie 🪴
Just requested to add this beautiful Alocasia Simpo Albo Variegated to the database. She is a hybrid of the lukiwan and sinuata breed.
Adriana G
What are people’s thoughts on stores putting mesh around alocasias roots? I’ve been moving my alocasia from soil to pon, and removing the mesh is so difficult and tedious. Tips on how to remove it easier?
JKPsych
Look at this new leaf 😍
Nikiller
Dearest alocasia parents with experience My cuprea is putting out a bunch of inflorescences (I think that’s the term) and this one was stuck shut for the most part. It’s been that way for over a week so I opened it and this dried out nasty thang broke off from the inside, leaving what appears to be “fruits” inside the modified leaf. The last picture is the the newest “open” flower and it looks stuck still but less rotten than the first one. What’s going on? Is it a symptom of another issue or just something that happens? (Also please ignore the burnt leave edges, it was like that when I bought it and I haven’t had the heart to chop off the leaves yet, I’m scared)
Beauty
Luki he’s so amazing. I got him when he was very small in a 4 inch pot, my first Alocasia from Bj’s.
Mikel’s Plant Posse
New leaf! Exciting! Other than that news…I can’t seem to find Excalibur’s variety in the app! Alocasia Lauterbachiana “purple sword”? Tried to add him but hit that bump.
Nikiller
I figured this group would appreciate this since alocasia and colocasia are both Araceae and colocasia are just the swampy version of alocasia. I just found this site called Lunar Tropicals that has rare colocasia for sale right now and a lot of them are black. I ordered these 3 as established plants in 6” pots for what I think is a very reasonable price per plant. I will update you all with the results when they arrive. Does anybody have any care tips as these will be my first colocasia, although there’s hundreds of native ones in my apartment complex along the edges of the lake and in backyards so I shouldn’t have difficulty.
