Tropicals & Tender Perennials: African Mask HELP!!!, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
We have just over an hours difference between the longest and shortest day. Plants notice these things. Our winter day temps are also above 30C (over 86F) .Colocasias and Alocasias go all year. Some Caladiums go dormant regardless, some go dormant for about a week or so. And some others seem to also keep going all year.

This is one of my other Jewel Alocasias, A. reginula, that's been sitting out in the pouring rain for about a month. It's sitting in rocks, the water goes straight through. The leaf fall (from the trees) has been left there to keep the humidity inside the pot