So, I probably am going to answer my own question here, but if new leaves on an Elepaio or Black Marble come up without variegation, should I clip them to encourage more variegation? or wait until it heats up more?
I know Nancy's Revenge won't streak until it gets hotter here, but did not know about the others.
Revert on variegated eearswhat to do
Don't know about clipping them but my Black Marble has markings from the first true leaf.
So obviously heat isn't a factor w/ them.
Ric
Maybe I'm not being patient enough-they are very small-thanks
Tropicanna,
I don't have experience with the black marble but I have a couple of Alocasia Mac. Variegata. one of them had went back to all three leaves being fully green at one stage and i thought it was gone back but since then I've had a couple of new Variegated leaves, and now the newest one again is all green, so I guess be patient and see waht happens.
Also I know there is some thing that your not supposed to feed variegated leaves so watchout if your feeding them, it might be magnesium that they dont like, maybe someone else can confirm that , Im not quite sure.
hmmm. since my last post-variegation came back-now I am wondering if I shouldn't fertilize. I use compost & composted cow manure, blood meal, bone meal, and plant-tone (till I use it all, it's not organic). I haven't really fertilized any this year,,,,,,slacker-lol.
My variegated did not make it through the winter. All I found was a dried up stump when I started digging around in the pot.
Sorry to hear that, what was it?
My A. Macrorhizza(Ican't spell-lol) did not make it through the winter outside.
Not sure, I received it in a trade as Variegated EE. It was pretty small and was inside for the winter. It went dormant about January and I had hopes that it would come back this spring. Didn't.
I have much better luck with colocasias than Alocasia personally. I think they are less picky and more hardy :)
I had 2 "Hilo beauty's" about 1 foot high - one in my patio (in the same container as my A. Macrorhizza) and another in my north garden. Neither Hilo survived the 2 day cold snap last winter. The A. Macrorhizza came back and is on it's 4 leaf, already 3 feet high with 15" leaves.