Water Gardening: Elephant Ear?, 0 by Badseed

Badseed wrote:
LOL Molly! When I saw you posting about ears and remembered I had pics and this thread was about pot sizes, I had to show this. I don't know what I thought they would do. I normally just grow them in pots of gravel that I let the water run through. The roots clean the water before it goes back into the pond. Then I can lift out the pots and rinse the gravel and put them back.

I ran into one slight snafu but I learned from it. Even at 2-3' tall, I could lift out the styrofoam, tilt it on it's side, and spray the pond funk off the roots. I have a wire shelf in the trough to set pots on. Hubby was afraid the ear raft would shoot into the pond so I sat it on the shelf. BIG MISTAKE! The roots went all through the shelf and by the time I tried to separate the two, I toasted a lot of the roots and broke the foam in half.

It has been 2 weeks and they are almost all rooted down again BUT I have the raft just floating, NOT on the shelf!

Blurry pic. I think the camera had too many Bud Lights. LOL If you look on the right, you can see them pouting after I split them up. :( Note to self. The little ones do not pout at all. Rip half the roots off a big one and watch it sulk!