Girl😀 wow power to you. That is not easy , and you handled it. I'm the exact same way, and I have a HUGE one I'm about to repot. you're video is awesome! Thank you, I learned a lot! Your awesome!
I've grown these for years in Tennessee, USA. They are so beautiful in front of my porch. They get early morning sun and very late evening sun. I used to put them in the ground but they get too big! So now I use pots I also struggle to repot in spring. I usually divide then. I lay them on a large piece of cardboard to catch the dirt and pull at the pot mostly. It's really hard. I give away a lot. I use a dolly to roll them to the basement in winter.
I am in NC and i have grown mine for 3 years in a pot. She has grown so enormous! She keeps outgrowing her pot. I have run out of options so I have put her in a 100 gl. Livestock watering basin I found at tractor supply. She must weigh at least 100 pounds. Has given so many babies which I have split and grown and given away. I call her my “Little Shop Of Horrors” plant I love her. 🥰
@@FloridaBikeVlogger If you overwater, it will rot the bulb. I have good drainage so if it doesn't rain I have to give it a good soaking. I usually water if the first 2 inches of soil are very dry. Water more often when the temperatures are high such as 80's and 90's with no rain.
Thanks for the video!. I find that kneeling or sitting on the side of the pot is often enough to break it loose. And you have the perfect knife for the job!
Beautiful plant and impressive re potting effort but one should never attempt to re-pot a plant this large and heavy on your own. I'm a man and I always call for help so as to avoid back injury.
We actually use the stalks to make our Vietnamese Fish Sweet & Sour soup. Looking at the beautiful Elephant ear plant gives me the craving! A stalk that size would be about $40 CA in a Chinese grocery store. Thx for sharing! 🙏❤️🇨🇦🌱
Racheal; Here in the Southern US "Elephant Ears" are quiet common. Most gardeners store the Big Stalk/Bulb dry & replant in the Spring. Once they get so Large as to have a "Neck", we just chop the tops off & the base will re-sprout.
Thanks for making this! Really helpful as I need to repot mine (kept indoors) which has shot up from 30cm or so to well over a metre in just 8 months!! Most of it's growth from (like you) always standing in an inch of water (which originally happened by accident). Only difference is I only use discarded aquarium (fish tank) water to water it (& all my plants), which it/they seem to really thrive on due to the increased nitrates I think.
That was a good workout, I broke a sweat watching you pull that apart from the first container. A lot like moving young banana plants from one pot to another. I use a lot more sand in my mix for these.
Wonderful! Looking forward to doing this very thing with mine come Spring.. Last winter I kept mine in the living room..(room temp) and hardly ever watered it.. (someone had told me to treat it like a cactus in winter) Seemed to have worked. Fingers crossed, I am going to do the same thing this Winter.. Such a fun plant! Mine is "Borneo Giant" Thanks for the video! :)
@@GardeningatDouentza well it made it thru Winter number two. In the living room and barely watered. It only lost two of 7 leaves and is eager to get potted on very soon. How is yours doing?
I'm growing these as anchor plant for my front porch spring/summer planter here in South Carolina where summers are hot and humid hopefully they do well.
Ga'day there .. What i normally do if the plant wont come out of the pot is i hold the stem of the plant with one hand and the other hand i grab a peace of timber ,say just over a foot long and 3" wide and tap the top edge of the pot back ... That will push the pot off the root ball or you can get someone else to hold the plant up right by the stem and you can tap the pot off...Well that's how i do it and you see how easy it is ... Hope this idea will help you in the future.... Cheers from Down Under... Oh buy the way love your video
Hi Tony. You make it sound easy! I really couldn't hold that giant plant with one hand, let alone wield a plank with the other 😲 The 'someone else' involved was busy holding the camera so your second option was out too. But thank you for offering your wisdom and I wish you a very happy weekend.
Ho una alocasia in vaso di circa 3,20 una pianta davvero maestosa .. ho sempre usato sin da piccola concime liquido per piante verdi e' mai stata esposta al sole diretto pertanto una pianta di facile cura.
Where did you find the strength to pull that huge plant out of its pot & put it back in the new one ? I really thought that you were going to call for help. You are one strong lady.👍🏼👍🏼
I´m keeping alocasia several years, my plants are as big as yours, I plant it every year in the garden late april or beginning of may till the first frost, then I dig it cut down all the leaves exept the last one. repot it and store it in our frost free greenhouse. Winters in Austria are colder than in Ireland, so the temperaturesin the greenhouse are about 5° C for nearly three months.When the sun rises and it gets warmerand the new leafes begin to come I replant it in very rich new compost with horn shavings and brown artificial fertilizer. Two month later I can plant them in the garden with some new leafes. I dig a much bigger hole than the pot and put some chicken manure compost in it, before planting. the next six months the alocasias will explode to more than two meters.
Yikes! At 1st, when it slid out of pot, the trunk looked delicate, but I see it is sturdy. Your a “She Woman!” Lifting that Elephant. 😮...💪 That a girl Rachel, show us how it’s done. 😃
Massive but beautiful plant, hope you didn't suffer from all that manual work, in repotting it, it looked a tough, but rewarding job. Hope you dont mind me asking, but, how have your outdoor Sarracenia done this year Rachel?
Thank you for your great comments as always. In reply to your question, my sarracenia have done brilliantly this year after the repotting. They are featured in garden tour videos and the sarracenia update video too as they just grew really big this year and are doing great. I am so glad I divided and replanted them. Happy growing.
Hi there. Check out my greenhouse videos for updates on this plant. I guess in time I will divide it but for the moment I'm enjoying having a huge specimen!
You're not repotting. You are potting on. Repotting is when you remove a plant from it's container, carefully remove as much compost as is reasonably possible from around the root ball and then put the plant back into the same or similar sized container and diligently fill the newly created spaces between the plant's roots with fresh compost. Depending on the species of plant some root pruning may, or may not be done. Of course this process should be done at the right time of year according to the type of plant you are repotting. Potting on a plant is to remove a plant from it's container, putting it in a larger container and filling in around the space between the plant's rootball and sides of it's new container. Some light root pruning and/or gentle teasing out of roots may be done depending on the type of plant. and the time of year. Lovely Alocasia. I managed to get an Alocasia 'Borneo King' which was tiny at the end of last Summer but has kept on growing despite being micro propagated up to now by four times it's original size. Watch your back though. That's a heavy job for one person. Well done. Any problems yet with red spider mites? I heard that they can be prone to them.
Good morning, Colin, nice to hear from you and your Borneo King sounds great. No spider mite yet on my alocasia, thank goodness. The words 'repot' and 'pot on' are interchangeable in English, as any dictionary will tell you. With terrestrial plants the process of removing all soil is seldom done unless the plant is suffering from some sort of pest or has been incorrectly potted. Hope this helps.
I recently purchased one and have found your video incredibly informative! Couple of questions: 1. do you let the pot sit in water all day long or do you do "bottom watering" ( as in letting the soil absorb the water upwards) 2. Do you use special water (distilled) or regular tap ? 3. My plant's leaves keep guttating (dripping water from their leaves) is it something you came across with yours too? Thank you in advance!
Hi there and congratulations on your recent purchase. In reply to your questions, I just leave my plant sit in a saucer of water the whole time. I have seen this plant growing is ponds so I have no fear of root rot. I use regular tap water on the plant (I have soft water). And, no, I have not found that my plant drips water from the leaves. I've seen this in ensete bananas but not with the alocasia. Perhaps you have a particularly humid environment? Anyway, hope this helps. Happy growing.
@@GardeningatDouentza Thank you so much for your response! I have started using dechlorinated water and letting it sit on it for periods of time and she has surprised me with a new leaf coming through! On the environment bit, I keep it in a dry environment so it is a bit odd to see it dripping all day. Had one last question, the roots in my macrorrhiza are slowly poking through the drainage holes and look healthy but wrapped around the sides of the pot, do these like staying root bound for a while or should I repot it asap? Thank you again!
I think it is both. That's the problem with common names. The most widely eaten taro is Colocasia esculenta so if you're talking about edible taro, you're talking about colocasia.
Wonderful plant. I hope I don't offend you but kneeling and lifting is a really bad thing for your back. The correct way to lift. is to stand with knees bent so the legs take the weight and not the back. The muscle in the lower thigh, is the largest in the body and suitable for lifting.
You don't offend me at all. Of course I know the correct way to lift things but it is not always practical, especially when you're trying to stay in shot for video. Have a good day and happy growing.
I just purchased an 3ft alocasia in Asda. It’s my first plant infact 😊 It seems to have smaller plants surrounding it at the base, is that all coming from the one bulb or could I repot these do you think. Thanks and good video!
Watering depends on temperature. I keep my alocasia at low temperatures in winter (minimum of 5 Celsius) so I don't water it. If I were to water it at those temperatures it would rot.
Enough with the silly comments. Everyone knows about squeezing the sides of a pot to loosen a plant. Please note that you can't push in the sides of a pot this big and rigid.
@@GardeningatDouentza One more question, at what night time temperature do they stop growing? I am wondering if its OK for me to leave mine outside now since it is really big.
@@GardeningatDouentza Well you're certainly strong enough💪 As you were trying to pull the plant out of the pot, for some reason I thought it must be quite a similar job to helping a cow give birth! and requiring the same kind of strength!
Hi there. In reply to your question my alocasia does not die back in winter. It remains evergreen in the greenhouse at a 5 degree minimum. It just doesn't put up new growths so is in a kind of dormant state. And, yes, Vera Wallace's reply is correct. It is not hardy in my climate, where it is a greenhouse plant.
I feel like I'm a bad influence. I mentioned that unifoliate Streptocarpus you have to Geoff (Tropical Plants 53 Degrees North) and he looked it up, went on the Dibley's website and ordered it. 😬 Also, don't throw your back out lugging that Alocasia around. Obviously they get ridiculously large around these parts. You end up having to take a machete to them. 😱