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title: "What does it mean when an elephant ear starts blooming? Side note: I…"
description: "What does it mean when an elephant ear starts blooming? Side note: I don’t like how it looks."
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/6519d545cffa0c7b036771bd"
community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Choc"
published: "2023-10-01T20:23:33.574Z"
language: "en"
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# What does it mean when an elephant ear starts blooming? Side note: I…

_Posted by Choc on 2023-10-01_

What does it mean when an elephant ear starts blooming? Side note: I don’t like how it looks.

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## 5 comments

### Joelle commented on 2023-10-01

do you mean pushing new leaves or flowering?

#### Choc replied on 2023-10-01

Flowering.

### Joelle commented on 2023-10-01

all it means is that it’s reaching maturity, you can cut it off at the base so it focuses the energy to the foliage vs the flowering. hope it helps!

some flowering comes back but you can just continue to prune it back

#### Joelle replied on 2023-10-01

my spider plant is the only plant i allow to flower. i cut it off when it reaches a certain length

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#### Choc replied on 2023-10-03

Thank you! I don’t like how it looks so I will cut them lol

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