I followed the Dr's orders, lol

I needed to move a big alocasia Mac and a Pisang banana and I called Rootdoctor for advice. He talked me thru it, lol and they are gonna make it. I cut all the leaves off except the newest center baby leaf. I already had the new spot ready for them, so they weren't out of the ground very long, then I watered them in good and kept them moist the first week after transplanting. I now have new leaves and they haven't even wilted even in our hot sun. We've gotten several good rains, so that helped too.
You can see the beat up leaf on the Alocasia, it was too close to the purple sugar cane and was getting beaten up. I had brugs in the spot I moved it to, but they had to go because their leaves and blooms kept ending up in the swimming pool. The banana was getting shaded by the big Orinoco that I posted a pic of earlier and I put it where I had a different brug that wasn't doing well.
Here is the alo mac

Here is the nana. I love this one, the leaves are pinkish before they mature and the stem has a pink cast to it when very young.

The first time he started to whack on an ear he brought me, I almost had heart failure. All those gorgeous leaves laying on the ground made me almost physically ill. But....he knows his stuff. Now when I pot or transplant, I do the whacking routine too and they never wilt. Yours are looking good and will be filled out in no time.

ROOT ROOT
Hes our Man
If he can't move it
No one can!!!!!!


can you tell I wasn't cheerleader material

Okay.. never heard of this method.. so need to ask.. how close to the main stalk do you cut off the leaves? and you just leave the center or last leaf? If the center was crushed, will it come back from a side shoot? Lots of mine were crushed and some are still under trees that I haven't cut yet.. I hate to lose all of them.

Susie this baby looks great!!!
MzM,I cut back just like Susie did here.

MzM, I cut the leaf stalk close to the main stem then when the remaining part of the stem turns brown, I just tug on it to make it come off clean.(I hope that made sense, I'm terrible with directions, lol). I think as long as the "eye" of the bulb isn't damaged it should put out a new leaf.
One thing, when you're cutting the big leaves don't get the juice/sap that leaks out on your skin or in your eyes, it does burn.

okay... thank you Root and Susie... and I'll remember about the sap!! Wasn't it Barbara that had gotten that stuff all over her?

Yes, she had a bad reaction after mowing some ears with her lawnmower and getting the sap on her skin.

earlier today i was hauling some alocasias that were given to me, and i got the stuff all over my arms ...
vinegar apparently helps to ease the burning/itching
..i just took some regular old white vinegar on a paper towel and rubbed my arms down .. it made them burn more for a few minutes, but the burning quickly went away ..