Great video, I just purchased one this past weekend..,I didn’t take into consideration that the leaves are all facing upwards so if I place the plant on a stool indoors I can quite see the beautiful leaves….your leaves are facing more down….should I put a grow light low down so to encourage leaves to face move fwd rather than face upwards?
That was a great demonstration! I'm in Tucson so I'm thinking it's too dry for them outside. Maybe for a month or so during monsoon? But that's a short period of time to risk the wind, the heat, and the pests! Indoors, I run humidifiers for my tropicals.
You can try, we get dry here in South Florida. We get 50 percent humidity but we can go a good 3 weeks no rain and dry. I have to run the sprinklers 2x as much. Give it a try. Most like water but not sitting in water.
I cut my alocasia odora straight across where the bark is. I took it outside in the spring. Not sure if the leaves got scorched or it got too cold. Lost all the leaves. It started getting leaves again but they were tiny. So I kept just one on it hoping it would get a big one. Today I removed one and left one. Thought if I trimmed some of the bark it might help. Wrong the leaf fell off. So, I went down on the bark a little ways and cut it straight across. It has a healthy pup. Will it sprout out of the top again. Help
I have the giant taro dark colored leaves and it’s indoors and it produced flowers this summer but now they have all bloomed and died so when should I trim it I’m in houston ???
the blooms any time. the leaves leave them on until they die off one by one. You can find me on facebook at bigleafTropicals and message me for much faster replies.
When is the best time to trim the ones that have fallen on the ground ? They don’t look brown or yellowing just literally in the ground and im in houston fyi ???
what medium are you using? or are they in the ground? My replies are much faster to instant. You can join my page on facebook and message me. also you can send pics of the plant and where its planted and I can help out.
I’d expect the leave to be a little velvety considering one of the parents is black velvet. The other parent is odora, do these have fragrant blooms please ?
yes and no. If in full sun or mostly sun daily, they can take watering. but I like to mount mine up so I can water but not let then sit in water or mucky soil. they can stay dry for some time in the shade
Thank you for your sharing! I just got one and they are absolutely stunning plants. Just curious. Have anyone hybridised the regal shield as an experiment before?
I think because odora and Black Velvet are from different subsections I’m not sure these are even fertile. Where I’m from there is a native Alocasia, brisbanensis. It was alway thought to be part of the macrorrrhizos section. My Al.brisbanensis x macrorrhizas are mules but my odoras x brisbanensis are fertile. It’s a matter of chromosome count.
Thank you! I had a leaf dying with a new one starting on same stem, so I cut it off as you at the main stem. I wasn't sure what to do, so glad I found you!
Hi! Great Video. In the last part you talk about a small plant that has grown too tall. I have one with a 4ft tall curly stem. Can I cut some of the stem off or do I have to cut down just the leafy part? Thanks a lot!!!
Thanks for the informative video! I have one Alocasia, in a pot, indoors (I am in Massachusetts). It has two "trunks" in the pot. One is about 4-5 inches above the rim of the pot, with three leaves, and the big one is about 5 FEET above the rim of the pot with three leaves. I am not a fan of the HUGE tall trunk, and wonder if it would be OK to cut it all back to maybe 2-3 inches above the soil - right thrrough the trunk. Would it regrow from the cut trunk? It's just so "leggy" looking as it is now. I hope to hear from you, as I have not been able to find any information about cutting through the entire trunk, but rather about pruning the dead leaves. THANK YOU!
Hi! You can cut the trunk off. They will regrow but the first leaves coming back will be a little bit small. You can also cut up the trunk, pot up the pieces, and they will regrow too. Think of it kind of like a philodendron, just with the nodes very close together.
@@aidensiessmayer5615 Hi Aiden. I have a one with three stems, but the problem is that a year ago, they suffered from root rot, and it eventually spread up to the trunk, causing a large part of the trunk to shrivel up and get hollow. Somehow, this amazing plant was tenacious enough to survive after I stop watering it and now it is producing huge leave, but the normally 4-6 inch diameter trunk is 90% hollow. My questions are: A) Where should I cut the trunk? near the bottom of the base where it is in the soil, and B) do I see to put the part in water or just replant directly in soil and water lightly? Thanks in advance!
you can cut the trunk but no need to and then they will grow off the side once really mature. they will not put a new leaf out of the center of a cut trunk. You can right they can be cut up and will sprout new pups.
Gorgeous leaves and the trunk size is amazing Do you dig them out in fall or leave them in The ground in during winter? I’m from south Texas and mine froze theirs Year .
At the bottom of the dead leaf stem looks like a new leaf is waiting to sprout...... so I still cut the base of this dead leafs stem even tho it looks like a new leaf/stem is trying?
Are you refering to heliconia? If so usually from the rhizome you will have new growth close to the dead stalk. So yes I would cut the dead one and leave the little ones starting.
Mine are indoor...... at the base of the dead leaf it looks as if a new leaf is getting ready to sprout, do I still cut BELOW this? i’ve been waiting for the new leaf to form (that’s attached to the dead leafs stem)
This was really helpful, thanks! I just cut off the oldest leaf on my guy, but not before pulling off some of the husk at the base -- leftover dry bits from the last trims. But I was surprised: what are those triangular growths under the husk? They look like leaves from another plant, just getting ready to burst?
Thank you for the video! Do the leaves ever grow back? I only have one plant with three leaves, if I cut a dead one off will I be left with just two leaves forever or will the cut one eventually grow back?
Yes, the leaves all grow from the center. So you could cut off the one leaf no problem. New ones will grow from the center over and over and in time will grow out from the base of the plant as well.
