know the names can't spell right now...
ely
ears no tail
A. cuculata? It's pretty!
alocasia... bullata? and crozon
cute Larry
You are SO good! I had 3 pots under a table until I figured out where to put them. I had A. cuculata, corozon and frydek. I looked at the wrong one. LOL
I killed bullata. It sure is pretty. I think I will stick to colocasia and xanthosomas, lol.
LOL.... did I send you the crozon? last year?
ely
It has a cute little aluminum tag on a copper wire. :) Yep, guilty!
LOL yep...
calalily, i kinda feel the same way....
ely
Cala.. I'm with you... I've accidentally killed so many alocasias.. but they are so gorgeous.. hard to not be tempted by them.
yep mzmunchken, They are beauties....
ely
Cool ears, as usual!!
LOL!!
Janet
yep yep.... need a tail... then I would be.....even worse shape...HA!
ely
alocasia are so hard to keep alive. I thought i killed a bunch of them last year and dumped them out and used the dirt to pot up other things. Now I have different a. popping up in strange places. They went dormant and I forgot they do that.
yep I know what you mean... I have had some pop up across the road... and they pop up at different times....
ely
Any idea how long they usually go dormant for? I have an Alocasia xAmazonica "African Mask" that went dormant on me 4 or 5 months ago and I'm just now seeing a new leaf. When watering Alocasias, I've found that I have to let them dry out before I water again or I risk rot.
its depends on the type... they need heat and humidity did you put them a green house or did you do them inside?
ely
I've had it just off of a southern window and no a/c and windows always open, gets a little warm in there. Would that qualify as a greenhouse?
don't know.... I know where in the same zone but our humidity is different..... I think for humidity you can put a pebbles in some water and set it on top of it.
ely
Most of my tropicals are sitting on pebbles. I also have two colocasias that sit in big saucers full of water so that helps to keep things a little more humid during the summer. Typically, the humidity is only about 25% when it gets really hot here so I've been hestitant to put a lot of my tropicals outside.