Wow gurl I love your chaotic but organised energy so much! I only recently became obsessed with plants about 3 months ago and I already have close to 100 that im looking after and they’re such a joy for my neurodivergent brain. I love your videos and I hope your plants are doing ok x
Now really alocasia WAS surely not my type of plant but ever since your journey of growing corms started I too gathered some courage and now I own around 7 of them 😂❤ Thanks for providing me the courage.THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrowNow FYI, I really am very low on budget 😂 so I just own a handful of cheap common alocasia but I own the elephant ear alocasia, the red secret alocasia or something, alocasia Melo I think and this and that but still watching them grow is great but after watching your "high stake plant" I really wanted one frydek but they are like so, so expensive, they are rarely or never found in my locals, and online it's like on etsy like around 10000 INR (125 dollar) which is a great deal of money in India but I hope It will be available soon and I would Have one.😂Hopes are high on side.
Your editing is unbelievable!! I really appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into to each video! I need to get a house with stairs just so I can have a stair slide too!
You have the most entertaining planty videos! Thank you for putting so much into them. I know as a new channel it is not easy lots go into it. I am sorry you lost your beautiful Frydek, hopefully it will start to grow again if you decide to keep trying.
❤❤❤❤❤Your videos, they always make me laugh! I especially love when you ride the little car around to get your plant chores done. 😂 and now your stair slide omg you crack me up! You’re the bomb!!!
3:17 a good idea is to submerge the whole rhizome because they are another part of this plant that is super susceptible to rotting! also leaving the top part of the roots out of moisture for half an hour can dry them out too much.
I’m so invested in this saga! Sending best wishes of recovery to the mama and xoxo to the babies! I wonder, how did she rot in the first place? Was there something in the LECA? I thought they didn’t normally rot in semi-hydro. Or am I just a sweet summer child 😂
My friend who has a lot more experience with Alocasias in LECA said the root systems are just too delicate and they rot easily. In my situation, the frydek was already stressed from being rootbound too so it just threw a fit!
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow Thank you for responding! I bought my first alocasia a couple of weeks ago and chopped the roots off to grow water roots and pot it into LECA. This info will keep me on my toes, diligently monitoring the roots! I got corms from her too and am now propagating them by the shallow puddle method and a couple in perlite (I’m unfortunately on a very tight budget 😕)
Although there is root rot, could another reason your frydek was drooping because it grew to be too close to the light source inside your cabinet? I’ve watched videos where people who are amazing at taking care of alocasias would say that sometimes if the leaves are drooping downwards- almost like it’s trying to hide it’s leaves, it could be it is receiving too much direct light. I’m only bringing this up because there were more healthy looking roots compared to the rotted ones. Frydeks are so sensitive to repots- so I’m not surprised it rotted back into a no leaf stump ☹️
They are so sensitive!!! I’ve heard of the dropping due to light issue before as well. It was never an issue for the past 1.5 years before with this frydek in the cabinet so I kinda want to rule it out but WHO KNOWWWWS
That was an emotional rollercoaster even having seen the short! In part wondering how many times longer plant chores take with filming, even setting aside future editing work. Amazing stuff. 💚🪴💚
Since I started using a heat mat for corm propagation, my success rate is almost 100%. it seems like they really, really like warmer water. I could imagine that cold water is deterring them to start growing.
It's so interesting to see how some plants can be ridiculously overpriced😵💫 In my country, those alocasia grow like weed along the street, in people's yards etc
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow Mauritius 💖 it's humid and warm, you see, tropical plants from around the world adapt very easily to our climate. Btw thanks to channels like yours, I was encouraged to grow plants too, and now, I have a bunch of alocasias and syngoniums and pothos that I have always seen at both my grandmas' since I was a kid and I value them a whole lot more now, so thank you💖💖💖
I made the mistake once of using too much peroxide in a reservoir and it ended up killing most of the roots. Leca roots don't do peroxide very well at the standard dilution.
I feel like this is me and my bambino journey. First I had 5 leaves put it in the green house - leaves melted off. Took it out things were ok, then boom… nope, no leaves and now the corm is giving me labor pains. I think this week it’s root check and move to stratum. I no good with alocasia except for black velvet 😑
If your Leca keeps giving grief, try Pon. I've had incredible success from advice to use Pon!! Only lost 1 of like 15 & that could have been user error haha!
I love that this is your takeaway because 90% of this video is how I failed my Alocasia 😂. BUT Alocasias come with insurance policies in the form of corms so it’s fun to experiment.
The reason a plant rots is not the bacteria and fungi themselves. There's only a problem if the environment becomes anaerobic or acidic. Hydroponic water needs to be replaced regularly to prevent this, just like an aquarium.
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow with all the amazing content you regularly put out, I really appreciate you taking the time to respond to so many comments! We appreciate you, your awesome sense of humour and creativity.
Sometimes trimming all the root of Alocasia when repotting seem to do the trick… once the roots are disturbed, especially transferred into different textured substrate media they rot almost instantly.
I got my first Alocasia (Pink Dragon) a month ago and Im obsessed, it had a baby that lost all its leaves, but the mom had 9 corms and 5 beautifull leaves. They (the corms) and the other leafless baby are in the diy nursery. I keep eyeing more on etsy/other plant shops and trying to restrain myself. My mom gave me a baby low rider, but... I WANT MORRRRRRRRE HAHHA😂😅
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow yep! I’ve had people on other platforms yell in comments about how I’m killing mine with normal humidity…all while it’s lush and living its best life 🤦🏽♀️ Every plant is different and their preferences depend on so many factors that are personal to the house or environment they’re in
We get it you have real kids but we’re not here for that! Don’t risk hurting yourself on the stairs just to prove you have kids lol. And let’s not be graphic trying to relate the plants to human babies / moms 🙄
OMG, how is it that you always seem to know exactly what I need to do?!? I've noticed my Frydek along with her 5 babies, which is my fav!, have been droopy and babies not happy. So okay, today's the day.... oh - she says thank you!! - Uh oh, end of vid, now I'm scared. Lol!!
I was only listening in the background, and I'm new to the plant world so I still google things like pothos... so the whole video I believed that you were mentioning variegated fried egg. I thought weird name but the patterns probably look like eggs. It made sense in my head 😩
I'm not sure if Alocasia Pink Princess is really an Alocasia. This one is very tough and surviving. The others are vulnerable and they decline very fast. Imagine $100 melt away in 24 hours.
Nooo I had this misconception root rot was caused by fungi found in SOIL!! And the fungi is more prominent in poorly drained SOIL! I felt safe with my leca balls ☠️ And spilling the stratum on the white carpet LOL 😅 Alocasias are fussy and unpredictable really. Glad you had the corms as insurance. Sending hugs!
In general you prevent root rot by ensuring your soil is well draining and they you are managing water appropriately. In my case, the frydek was not doing well in LECA and I’m in the process of slowly transitioning all my Alocasias away from LECA. This isn’t to say that LECA is bad. I have friends who successfully grow all their Alocasia in LECA, but for me in my environment, it wasn’t working.
@@ohtheplacesyoullgrow They are not on the Moss pole website. I mean the crystal clear pots becaause the planters on her site are crystal clear,most are not even clear because i have bought quite a few feom them. The only really clear pots i got are the scalloped planters, which I do not recommend.
Ooooooh the one that I’m propagating my frydek in is actually just a recycled plastic water cup! In terms of CLEAR CLEAR pots, here are some other options: amzn.to/4acVWnH
Good luck rehabbing the mother plant! Maybe you stressed it out by repotting but it looks like it'd be worse if you didn't do anything! With my Alocasia luck, 8 Alocasia Frydeks sounds like seven backups to me! 🤣
Frydeks are so hard! But you have insurance x 6! I love alocasias for that. Have you ever tried the "shallow puddle" method for corm propagation? I just put them in a little dish of water with a plastic cover on a heat mat and they usually sprout roots in ~2 weeks. I then keep them in water until they open the first leaf (usually only 1-3 weeks after the roots start) and then transfer to pon. Seems to only take about 4-6 weeks from corm harvest to pon transfer with this method. I've tried sprouting in stratum before and after 2 months of nothing, I got impatient and moved to water and had roots and a leaf a few weeks later.
This was so good. Thanks, I don't feel so crazy now. 1 hour of 🪴 plant care = 4 hours for normal people. And nights turn into mornings at warp speed while doing our planty things! 😅
