caring for alocasias and how I (finally) got out of the one leaf club + repot and corm propagation 

Awesome! This is literally the video I've been waiting for someone to make for YEARS! None of that entry-level "give your alocasia bright indirect sunlight and keep the soil moist and it'll do great" nonsense. Also, your channel totally inspired me to start hunting for an alocasia scalprum and I finally found one at a local shop last week! It's the first time I've ever seen it at a plant shop here in the states. I hope it starts to become more common here because it's **chef's kiss**.

This is the MOST useful video I’ve found on Alocasia care on RU-vid. I have 3 Alocasias only and have refused to buy anymore until I watched your video because they have been such difficult divas for me. Dropping leaves, droopy leaves, not growing perfect leaves, and I had just about given up until I watched your video. I’ve learned so much new information about their care. Thank You 🙏🏼 I might be brave enough now to get a variegated frydek after watching your video.

I wish this video was more popular. It’s one of the best I’ve seen on alocasia care. So thorough!!!

I found this by randomly strolling. It was, without a doubt, the best video I've seen. Thank you so much for the time and valuable info you have provided. I am eager to work on my plants and invest in more. You are exceptional.

I can't tell you how many times I've returned to this video to seek your guidance! Thank you soooo much! My heterophylla has been a GREAT success because of you! Dropped one leaf due to overwatering, but I've bought all the ingredients for semi hydro (literally because of you!)!! Again, I cannot thank you enough!

I just got a stingray alocasia and the more I read the more nervous I got. A friend gave it to me and I didn’t want to kill it. I feel a little bit more confident after watching you thank you so much.

Thanks for all the info and tips. This is a great help. I'm a new Alocasia owner of a baby Silver Dragon Scale with two leaves and one pushing out. It arrived with a very healthy root system in a sphagnum moss plug witch I had a time getting free from all the fine roots before placing into my soil media. So far in the two days it's been in it's new soil media the baby is doing very well and standing upright and seems very perky. So I'm researching all I can learn about them, so I keep it healthy and happy. 👍

Thank you for your knowledge. I have killed a few alocasia and now I feel more comfortable repotting my new baby corms.

thank you for continuing to make therapeutic content charmaine

Yay Alocasias!! 🙌🏼 I currently have 26 in my collection. They’re actually the easiest plants I’ve ever grown. 💚 Thanks for the video. 👍🏼

I have ADHD too. I prepped up when you said Black velvet!!!! Cuz I’m getting 1 today and I’m totally new to these plants 🌱 but when u forgot what you were talking about, I was like telling you( Black velvet!!! You’re talking about the Black velvet!!!:))!” And I picked up that you have it to and I was trying to help you Even tho you couldn’t hear me 😂❤ Thank you for all your knowledge and I subscribed too🌱✨🙌🏼

I just started following you and I LOVE these long ass videos. This is what I live for now

I've been watching your RU-vid channel for the past four months and as a viewer I'm proud of what you've overcome to post your videos with your head. I'm thoroughly enjoying this video though,😊 incredibly informative 🪴 content as usual. All the best in the New Year Charmaine 🥳

Fantastic video and found it SUPER helpful for my growing Alocasia obsession. Thank you!

I need a Pudge in my life 🧡 his little snores are adorable! I killed alocasias before but it’s because I never properly learned how to care for them so thank you for this video 🙏🏾

This small furry potato has my whole heart

Seriously... I could watch u clean chonks every single day all day long... so satisfying and relaxing. I'm late on this one but I made it! Also I watch ur videos multiple times because if how nice and fun they r. Ur a great "youtuber" I appreciate your hard work.

I freaking love Alocasias! I always say they are so rewarding cuz they grow so fast. My Reticulata sized up in no time. I loved watching you get your corms cuz I could totally relate. When you said, it’s like finding gold, I died😵😂! I get the same damn way digging for those little babes! I’m so glad you made this video full of great info. Semi hydro life x Alocasia =💚🤍 Goals! Can’t wait for Saturday 😂😳✌🏻!

I am not a big fan of alocasia. Your video makes me want to try one. Thank you for sharing this.

I literally just found you last night! Love your content! So informative and real! Thank you! I appreciate your work! 🪴🪴🤗🤗

Watching you dig and totally not be afraid of your plants....gives me hope that I, too-- will get there some day..... :) I went from having zero confidence to some* confidence with repotting, I was always terrified I'd kill any plant even by just merely breathing beside it! And I'd like to think my plants are happy :)

This was incredibly informative and helpful! Thank you so much 😊💖🌿

My alocasia micholitziana has 7 leaves and one more on the way. Once it was acclimated to my environment and happy, it’s growing profusely! It even lives in below 40% in the winter and only dropped maybe 1 or 2 leaves! All of my Alocasia live in soil though, my aroid mix- I just have to water them a lot more. Lol I love Alocasia sooo much. Light from the top is critical, not too too bright either or they start flopping. Lol dealing with my cuprea and that right now. Alwaysss gotta cut those flowers lol they usually come in 2’s. I’ve noticed if they push out more than 2 then they are stressed to some degree. They are probably one of my top 3 genus of plants! Thanks for sharing all your experience and understanding of them.

I live in korea, where summer is hot and humid. I got my alocasia at the stsrt os summer and immediatly got a flower and one of the corms shooting up leaves. I just keep it near the grow light(red and blue light) and never use air conditioning. During the winter I place a humidifier by her and keep up on the nutrients every two weeks or so and she doesnt go dormant. Every few months i have to check her because she produces corms like crazy!

Do you have a video on how you make you substrate x

I had good success with corms in leca in one of those yogurt jars with cellophane covering it! Game changer for me!

Great video! I just found your channel recently and I’m loving it. Thank you!

I'm starting to seriously collect alocasias. I'm also not an expert! I started with a silver dragon and I recently purchased a Polly/amazonica. Then, I received two Jacklyn corms yesterday. I'm nervous about growing out of a corm! But I'm determined. Using this video to educate myself and do more research!

Fern fibre is the best to propagate Alocasia in! Very easy to remove from roots too :)

I'm amazed by your resources. You even managed to find a prop box that fits 6 dessert cups perfectly. Can't wait to see the corms grow!

I know this video is a year old but I just received liquid gold leaf from the UK. I ordered on a Monday and received it on Wednesday. I was shocked!

Ahhhh always so happy when you uploadd!!🥰🥰

I'd love to see some updates on these later. I gave away two alocasias because I hated the way they would toss off a leaf as soon as they got a new one. I have a black velvet now that a friend of mine gave me and I'm trying again. It's currently in soil in a wicking pot with a consistent water reservoir and seems to be doing well. But it's getting a new leaf and I see one of the older ones turning red. So it's gonna toss it.

I found that when I gave my alocasias more humidity and light I got more growth and blooms! My corms are doing great from my black velvet and silver dragon.

Love the dog

What's the longest you've had an Alocasia in semihydro? I've found that once they hit the 1-1.5 year mark the root systems start collapsing

I read the title and just whispered "help" before clicking 😔 🙏

This couldn’t have come soon enough. Most of my alos are ☠️. Can’t wait to watch

Do you have a stingray plant? Could you please show it and what you do. I seem to have a problem with mine. 😊😊

Thank you for this video 💚 Also, where is your shirt from? It’s super cute!

Such in depth information! Thank you 💚

If you're not opposed to using a specific miticide, Oberon is the best, and it's pollinator friendly.

What are the percentages of the three products you use in your rooting hormone?How much of each one?

Ok. The snoring pug is soporific. Lol

Honestly highly suggest beneficial predator bugs for your collection, so good and makes it so you don't have to spray chemicals 💚

I had all of my alocasias rot in pon:( Ugghh. I didn’t realize perlite should be mixed in. What percent of perlite do you add? Would you guess like 50/50? I’m honestly thinking it should be at least 50.

Hi, what is the name of the plant on the thumb image about JUNE Fvaourites?

Very beautiful 🌱❤😊

Thanks so much! So helpful🎉😊❤

Hi! Great video. I'm new to many of these processes. Could you tell me where to get the little metal scraper tool you used?

OMG THE F.R.Y.D.E.K 🤩 IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN VIDEO RIGHT AFTER 🐾PUDGE & 🕵️‍♀️YOU. 🙋‍♀️😍 LOVE IT 💚🍀

Thank you for the information you provided here as well as ALL of your videos…so informative & just love you and your precious pup💜 Question~ with Cal-Mag, with the semi-hydro plants, do you water the plant with it and simply leave it in the substrate like you would with soil or allow it to sit for a limited time and rinse?

Well this is timely lol. I've been getting into alocasia recently. It took me three years to get into that genre🤣

Hi .well useful vidio. Im just getting into alocasia and have about 4 now..im putting them into semi hydro. What is that which you do. You use a name for it that ive not heard.Passive hydro.what exactly is that please. Also my other interest is space and the universe etc and am wondering what your tatoo of Jupiter is. Is it a pets name ?

Can you tell us why the dragon scale has yellow tips what it means as mine has it

Hello! Just wondering how much Osmocote do you put into your Pon mix? I’ve been searching around and there really isn’t a definitive amount or even a guidance amount lol.

When you said "mealy bugs are f*king disgusting I never felt anything more in my soul I would take spider mites on every plant over that 😭 I'm still in the beginning of this video, I've heard that velvet leaves don't like to be wet, is it fine if it's a spray treatment once a month of really cleaning them and drying the leaves after?

would you recommend putting rooting hormone on the corm

can you link those glass vessels please

Do you boil your used pon so you can reuse it?

Yaasss! I've been getting into alocasias. Senihydro is the way to go. I live in a dry climate and travel so I use a wicking system with reservoir so there's plenty of water in the reservoir for when I'm out of town.

I have a baby zebrina I just repotted in pon yesterday. Woke up today and another leaf dropped lol. How do you decide which alocasias to place in semi hydro?

Those cuprea leaves look velvety. Is it?

A weird alien freak 🤣 poor cuprea! Where did you buy the variegated frydek?

How come the roots that reach the bottom water doesnt root because they sit in water.

Do you ever mix orchiata with your leca?

Where is your shirt from? 😍🌿

Preach on the mealybug geometry...

Maybe when they are root bound they produce more corms

Where do you get the scrapper from??

i recently got my first alocasia the other day from a nursery (silver dragon 🐉🤍🖤💫

Can I buy one of your corms

Me: owns 0 alocasia Also me: 🤤🍿

What do you do when roots grow up and start sticking up out of the substrate? Currently I’ve been just sticking them back down but idk

also i wish someone warned me that “easy” houseplants are not that easy to take care of 😭 i thought they could just sit there and look pretty forever but they need a lot of attention, like my pilea has edema. i’m not a doctor how am i supposed to save her from a disease 😭

Try them in perlite

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We use predatory mites on a very large scale in our glasshouse in Australia. We found they are a good option for controlling an active infestation, but once they have the infestation under control and there are no more "bad" mites to eat they will turn on each other and wipe out their own population. So good option for an active infestation but not really an option as a preventative measure.

Check out a simple technique that worked on my alocasias

Omg I started using soil because you liked soil and now you are saying you’re moving all to passive hydro noooooooooo

These poor plants! If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!

Do I really have to watch the whole damn 1.49 mins to find out the answer to title the title?? Really? And what’s with the headless horseman theme?

Just so you know I tried moving my Melo to pon twice and it rotted and died on me both times. I had lots of success with other alocasia in pon, but this one 💀

while watching this video i found out my monstera adansonii has spider mites lol found some webbing. first pest on my first house plant 🫠 update: was listening to this video while taking care of her. the leaves are so hard to be gentle when wiping because of the holes and she’s a beast…. she’s in a 8inch pot with many vines hanging out and bushy LOL took me an house to give it a shower, wipe the leaves, and spray both sides of the leaves and stems with neem oil mixture. she’s been with me for months now and started having issues just now so idk how she got them…

This video came right on time. Currently having a major spider mite outbreak in my MarsHydro tent. Wish me luck while I scrub everything from top to bottom 🥲

Hey, where do you get those plastic (?) jars / pots / vessels from (these round one where you put your Scalprum in for example) Couldn't find them anywhere but they are so pretty for plants!

This is soooo good! Thank you for this in-depth care video. I really appreciate the detail you go into here. I struggled with alocasia for a while, but this year I’ve started to feel more confident with them (even though I grow in soil 😉) I picked up a few tips that I want to try out, thank you.

This was wonderful! I’ve been really busy at work and have been missing my mid-week plant time. This was able to play while I was doing house stuff after work and made me feel like I was “working” in my plant room. Love your channel!

I love being able to do my plant chores to your long videos! That variegated frydek is everythinggg

Timestamps would have been really helpful for this video

I tend to agrer with the no drainage. Atleast on my alocasia anyway. Mine hated soil...and hated leca. Right now its just in water and nutrients and working on a 3rd leaf. After she pushes that out, i may try PON

I definitely struggle with Alocasia aswell. I came across the Alocasia Dragon Scale for €9 in IKEA which was a great price so i took the plunge to give it ago. Since haven’t it has given me two leaves. Also lost two smaller leaves they just turned yellow. I definitely notice when needs watering there leaves kinda flops down. And if you don’t water it properly you can get the yellow tips or edges. Also people have experience when they get new leaves they can also lost leaves too. I have been thinking getting the Alocasia Cuprea Red Secret which looks like an Alien plant with that metallic leave. Do you know what is the difference between that one and the Azlanii? The Alocasia Sinuata looks gorgeous the leave texture and colour maybe even more nicer than the Dragon Scale. I also want the Alocasia Scalprum after seeing yours not an easy find yet here. The Alocasia Frydek Variegated Albo White has lovely variegations but worry about the variegations staying and the white parts staying pristine. As my Philodendron White Princess the white parts don’t stay pristine it can get discoloured which is stopping me buying another variegated green and white leaves types of plant. Only Hoya plants would not so they are safer. Seeing you use a toothbrush to clean the leaves couldn’t help my heart pounding in case the leaves would ripped. I tend to use a soft cloth instead with lemon dish water soap and water as pests don’t like lemon scent. I heard removing all the corns in the Alocasia is not good as they need some in the plant to provide growth and nutrients for the plant to grow and stay alive.

Uuuuhhh once again you blessed us with super long video 😍🤩 I love them, and I really needed this one 👌🏼🪴😍🤩

The way you talked about mealybugs is my exact feeling about scale. So freaking disgusting lol.

I was wondering how often should I flush my Alocasi’s in passive Hydro pon mixture. Also great video thanks.

I feel like we’re twinsies, I hate bugs and I’m hoping that being a plant mom will help me overcome my fear (I’m a new plant mom). I need to place a moss pole into my new monstera and I’m TERRIFIED because I was changing the top layer of soil when I first got it and a crab spider crawled up the stem and I blink and it was GONE. So now I’m scared to even go near it and it’s time to water too so I’m like 😭😭😭😭 ALSO I got a variegated alocasia frydek and it’s a baby. It came in soil though, would you recommend repotting her into pon?? Or should I wait? I keeps seeing mixed reviews about switching her right away :(

The variegated Frydek is gorgeous!!

Love that we have a good, in depth alocasia video now! BTW, that dragon scale is GORGEOUS😮 SO yummy💚💚

I’m giving Alocasia’s a 2nd chance, so I needed this video.

I have a baby frydek (two leaves highly variegrated) and so little and adorable I'm scared I'll kill it before I can even get it to a medium size. It's still in the little black pebbles. I am too scared to even touch it