My Alocasia macrorrhizos 'Variegata' is ALIVE!!! I was so lucky to receive a mini one for a gift. THANK YOU PATRICIA!! It had added 2 leaves after I received it so had 3, all about 1 inch big but then it went down hill rapidly.
A miracle!!
I was down to one sick leaf so I put it in a plastic bag on my seedling table as a Hail Mary pass. I happened to look last night and 2 huge leaves (well about 4 inches, LOL!) were pushing out of the bag on one end,
and roots coming out of the cup on the other!!
I had done this well over 1 month ago and just thought it had died.
But what to do now??
Maybe I should lie it on its side and plant it? Th enew shoot is coming up on the left side, low.
Kell, when I got mine a couple of years ago, it "died" all the way down and I thought it was a total goner. Anyway, (in typical lazy Nat fashion) I just shoved the pot aside and soon it was lost in a collection of pots on the back porch. At the end of the summer, I found the pot again and it had growth! How it made it with total neglect for a couple of months is beyond me.
I took it in for the winter and now it is a gorgeous thing!!
And yours will be too!
Roots are coming from the right. Very odd. I do not want to rot the center mound thingie. I guess it is the trunk of the old one.
Yep, I'd repot that baby up on it's side in a bigger pot. It LIVES!!!
Hi Nathalyn!
I am a bit worried. It seems to thrive on humidity and I have little here. I saw a huge one at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers last year. It was in a pool in water and it was so humid in there too. I bet Tennessee is humid also. I just love it so much I will hate it if I kill it. Do you keep yours real wet?
Here is the one at the SF Conservatory of Flowers.
kell, that is gorgeous. I got one of those and it died on me, I thought from overwatering. Looking at your pic, that was obviously not the reason it died. hmmm.
Mine was in a pot on the back porch last summer. I watered it most days but didn't give it any special care.
Towards the end of the summer, it lost a lot of it's variegation - - but the growth that I'm seeing inside now is back to it's normal coloring. Wonder if temps have anything to do with it's variegation?
that's a cool looking tropical! glad yours both came back.
I lost one too, guess it was too dry. Kell, that one in the Conservatory is over the top, take good care of yours. Do you think it would work in a water garden pot like you would put a lotus in?
Last year I had a tiny one, I tried to keep it going inside over winter and it died down. I'm hoping that it will come back but so far nothing happening. I'll try putting it in a baggie.
I second Alice, the one Kell posted is a stunner.
WOW Nathalyn, yours is HUGE!!
I may have to try that way Ardesia. It would be worth it. Mine was going south too until I bagged it. I may have to bag it again now that I have repotted it.
Good luck, Linda!