Tropicals & Tender Perennials: The best Elephant Ears to grow in water., 1 by Badseed

Badseed wrote:
Oh I forgot that plain old C. esculenta does really well in the water once it's warmed. It has been my experience though, you won't get a bulb back out of the water as it rots but you will get big plants with a mass of roots! Most of the time, I just put the ears in a pot of gravel where the water comes out of the pump and the gravel and roots help to clean the water.

Last year I wanted to try something so I used a spade bit to put holes in styrofoam and I put a bunch of really small ears through the holes. I did not experience one bit of wilt on those even though there were mailed from *somewhere* down south and plopped on this piece of styrofoam. This was right after I did it.