My longiloba is developing what I call 'bulbils' along
the bottom of its' trunk and coming upward. I wouldn't want
to bury the trunk further - you can see it has produced new
little leaves already along the lower part of the trunk.
(They would get buried.)
This /may/ provide a little different view....even on
macro setting the camera wants to overexpose.
IMHO, the solution is to do a very careful surgical extraction of the little plant(s) with leaves, then bury the exposed trunk and bulbils in loose semi-composted leaf litter. That is the way the trunks get buried in the natural setting, especially if the trunk leans over so that it lays on the ground. So long as the bulbils are totally exposed like that, they won't form new plants.
LariAnn
I guess for me the biggest concern would be
"What kind of pot?"
This plant grows straight up. I /could/ remove the
ones with leaves and then just set the pot into an
extra deep nursery pot (palm pot?) and just cover
the whole thing up to the bulbils with the composting leaves.
It will make the plant necessarily shorter. By about
a third.
Other alocasias I have that are leaning - I have wondered
about using 'cactus bowl' type pots to fit it into. It is becoming
a dilemma.
If you can get the tall, but somewhat skinny, pots, they would work for this. The alternative, which seems drastic but would also work, is to lay the existing pot down and let the plant turn upwards in response to the change in position. Once the growing point of the plant is upright again, you'll have a horizontal trunk to deal with, not a vertical one. Then you just need a wide shallow pot to transplant to. Your choice!
LariAnn
