Was excited to see dark leaves rising high above the rest of the annuals on a discounted table!! I couldn't find this particular one in the plant files. Anyone with any experience with this one? Will post pic in AM
Alocasia plumbea 'Jurassic Dark'
I have both A. Plumbea 'White Stem' and 'Nigra'.
Both do well in the ground during the summer with moderate watering and partial to full sun. During the winter, they did very well in pots in the GH. Just don't overwater. They both were pretty pest free as well in the GH (only a few spider mites but no significant damage).
ROX
Thanks Rox!!! Would this be the correct plantfile listing then? http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1178/
'Jurassic Park ' is the trademark name.
Regretfully I don't know its cultivar name.
http://www.provenwinners.com/plants/detail.cfm?photoID=6553&doSearch=1&searchFlower=None&searchFoliage=Dark+Green&
Rox you seem to have a lot of EE's andyour in thenorthern part. what do you do with them in the winter time.
I have quite a few too and plan to dig them up to store inthe greenhouse. although they'll go dormant cause I plan on keeping the greenhouse cooler this winter.
I brought in 266 EE last year! Maybe 40 types of EE.
I don't plan to do that again. It was crazy. Different sized pots needed different watering schedules so I was watering something every other day.
I think that this year I might try to store more EE as bare corms. I had a heck of a time with spider mites and aphids last winter.
Or I might let the temp drop to 60F high/50 low instead of 70/65F.
What do you think?
ROX
Temps dropped to 40 sometimes in my greenhouse and some remained green and most went dormant, I lost a few, but I think i'll do better this year, and I do plan to let the greenhouse go down to 35 or so, so most thing s will go dormant. Just because I have a wood stove and i'll be doing some camping hopefully this winter. and will be gone alot. so I won't be cranking up the stove unless the temps outside are really cold. I think the ee's will be big enough to survive hopefully as dormant bulbs, kept in the pots with little to no water at all.
This is my plan, don'tknow if it's a good one, but I think it might work for me, may not work for the ee's but it will for me LOL
that's way too many ee's LOL
I thought my mere 50 or so was a high number ha ha.
So most of yours grow in pots?
I stuck all mine in the ground this spring and we had a severe freeze of l7 while all were inthe ground, and every one of them came back. Whew!! that was a blessing in disguise too . I thought I was going to loose every one of them.
That must have been so scary!
I put the EE in the ground, then dig them up in October and bring them inside.
I just posted a pic of my large C Fontanesii (>6 feet high and wide) and A Mac ( 8 feet).
ROX