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@sandykelley4195

5 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!!! I thought I was killing my alocosia plants. Every alocosia I bought died (or so, I thought). Maybe I can get up the nerve to try again.

@user-dc5gs7cr7q

5 ай бұрын

but my plants are dead

@brandidrouin8133

2 ай бұрын

Why do I have little balls on the roots of my plants ???

I just wanted to say, it is obviouse you put a ton of work into your filming and editing. It must take forever. I just wanted you to know someone noticed your hard work. Great job! And thank you for all the helpful tips. :)

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! It's all good fun

You have it backwards. I've grown many Alocasia for 30 years here in a cold climate. The trouble is not seasonally lower light levels. It's *heat, heat, heat!* You can prove this to yourself in about 3 weeks by putting any lame Alocasia on a heat mat in winter. New leaves shoot out. Overwatering problems go away,. They become very easy plants if you also give just decent light & water like any regular houseplant. The prefer temps in the 25-35 C range. Alocasia are not benefited by dormancy, that's just an emergency response to low temps. Get your minimum night temps up and your plants will thrive! :)

@krazykitty5750

2 ай бұрын

Won't be doing 77 to 95 degrees in my Minnesota home during the winter but I do have seedling warming mats. 😊😮

@nataliebaker8281

Ай бұрын

True. I live in Arizona 🇺🇸 dry heat. Theyre easy to care for here. 95°F (35°C) outdoors in May and its loving my indoor windows. Indoor temp stays around 75°F (24°C) during the daytime. 70° at night. Alocasias do well in the southern part of America. Some people purchase plants online, not realizing they wont take well to certain climates.

@rodneybever9583

Ай бұрын

That could be why I have such good luck. I hate the cold and in the winter my place is around 78 degrees

@Grrrnthumb

Ай бұрын

​@@krazykitty5750 When I keep them in a room with minimum night temp of 65F and daytime average of 70F, they seem to make it thru winter alive without going into dormancy, especially if they have some full sun and I water carefully. Some seem slightly more resistant to cool winters than others, like odora and longiloba

@MegalomaniaHere

20 сағат бұрын

That would be the great next experiment for a video about Alocasia, testing a warning mat for it during the winter to see if it will go dormant 🎉

I put my Alocasia to quarantine in my hallway, where the heater barely ever turns on. Safe to say she let me know that Dutch winter will not be tolerated, unless I put her in my cosy living room. Doing much better now.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Ah right!

@eline8440

4 ай бұрын

Dutch winters are ruthless

@mirvarahunen5261

3 ай бұрын

Then imagin finnish winter. Sooo manyt plant lamps, warmers and humilitiser 😅

@scottloessin39

5 күн бұрын

O m goodness, I’m ready to throw 3 of mine out. I’ll definitely try this thank you.😊

The way I've been through 3 already and 3 barely hanging on right now. This is good to know that it's them and not me

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Always!

I've had my alocasia for about 6 months and It was doing great, 3 new leaves, great colors then one day I looked at her and she had yellow and black spots on 3 of her 6 leaves. I immediately removed the leaves and put her in quarantine. Remaining leaves looked good for a month then again...lost another. I removed her from the pot to see if she had root rot and found the nursery had started it in a net and the roots were not able to grow...I removed the net and found 4 croms inside🤗❤ Hope to see some new growth soon. Oh and baby Alocasias

I bought a very sick looking little alocaría in Aug/Sept at Lowe’s for $2. It has been living outside under a tree and regularly jumped on by my dachshund. It’s almost 3 feet tall now…the magic if South Florida humidity and sunshine!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

I bet it is!

@sonyad.5942

5 ай бұрын

North Florida here and my alocasias look better in my greenhouse in the winter, but we do get enough cold that they don’t thrive. The spider mites come out in the warm weather, though, and I haven’t been doing well about battling them!

@diannenaworensky6698

4 ай бұрын

​@@sonyad.5942: I'm by Gainesville. I put my outside Alocasias in the greenhouse. They like it in there because it's warm. If I try and bring inside they hate it

Your positivity is contagious!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

😁

This was not only very helpful, but incredibly entertaining. I would listen to him read the back of a food label and be engaged!

@SheffieldMadePlants

3 ай бұрын

😂 thanks!

You threw that poor plant in the trash?! Imagine waking up from dormancy buried alive by rubbish. You monster

@OfficialAnnikaS.B

5 ай бұрын

I hope you're joking because that's not how dormancy works 😂

I love my Alocasias, all ~20 of them (I think 9 species). Some are definitely more dramatic than others, but they are all beautiful. Growing plants from the corms is a treat too! They start life already acclimated to your home 💚💚

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

I’ve got some sprouting so 🤞

@bonniesessley2252

4 ай бұрын

Show your babies

I'm glad I watched your video before even considering buying an Alocasia.

@Y0usmelled

5 ай бұрын

*whispers* you’re still gonna buy it. I know you want to

@nicoleperron3315

5 ай бұрын

There's nothing like those thick leaves, the texture is amazing, once you have one you can't keep your hands to yourself.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

They are nice to be fair. Just got to expect dormancy if that’s your climate

@LeafyConversations

5 ай бұрын

Same

@Astara_star

5 ай бұрын

Same

I use a self watering pot for my alocasias, grow lights and heater keeping it at least 65. When they’re happy, I’m happy!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Very good

This is a very timely video! I’ve tried growing these very alocasia numerous times before to only see the winter months take them out. I recently bought two alocasia black velvet plants at my local big box store because they had more than 3 leaves and I couldn’t resist the price! For fun I ordered a frydek placed the plants on my desk and crossed my fingers. I read somewhere that alocasia are big foodies so I started feeding them regularly. I have a desk lamp on my desk with just an LED bulb and pointed the lamp towards the plants.. 🌱 Eureka! I literally have 3 new leaves on the black velvet and one on the frydek in this cold ass city I live in😊. I may have success yet!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

You're cracking the code 👌

It’s crazy how fast your channel grew❤️ keep up the good work

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

@45lott

5 ай бұрын

Over 300 good videos in 2 years! Would be crazy if it didn’t grow with that kind of consistency.

@Y0usmelled

5 ай бұрын

@@45lott ikr! He’s a beast! And those jokes always make your day!😆 He had just started when my plant addiction started

Another stellar video. I also notice it more hungry too. I live in zone 10a and I can say 75% of my leaves are looking pretty good but there are a few that struggle with the light and temperature when the temps swing from day to night 30 degrees f. Keep the dry humor going

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

Neither of my alocasia's like to be watered... Strange as that may sound it's true. I haven't watered my big one for a few months and she seems happy, the little one is the same. Every time I would water, a whole beautiful leave would yellow and die so I got scared to water again. She is huge and takes up a whole corner and is around 4ft tall atm so... I will try the food for them both and a bit more water at spring time. Not sure what to do with them both, but they look healthy and happy.

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

That’s weird. Your soil must retain water

I found that Alocasias should come with a warning. Yes you will probably get Spider Mites and they will look ugly at some time of the year. Even in Florida it takes a while for them to come out of dormancy

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

Warning on the label would be good 😀

Mine has it's own UV light and I water it only when it gets dry. I give it Miracle Grow once every 6 weeks or so. It did all of this during the summer but actually started THRIVING during the winter - it now has five leaves and has even sprouted babies. The heater being on during the cold months seems to have woken it up. 👍🏻

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Nice one

I've got my frydec in pon, and she's loving and living her best life😊.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Nice 👌

Honestly, highly recommend semi-hydro for alocasias, takes away a lot of the fuss. Mine are thriving through winter even on the colder windowsills.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Currently experimenting

@ReeshaGG

5 ай бұрын

@@SheffieldMadePlants can't wait to see ☺️

@ashleythomas3329

5 ай бұрын

I put my bambino in perlite and she popped a leaf a week later 😍

@Gkrissy

5 ай бұрын

@reeshaGG do you have to wash the semi-hydro if the alocasia gets spider mites. Mine got spider mites on my cold windowsill from maybe my pothos plant.

@ReeshaGG

5 ай бұрын

@Gkrissy I don't have experience in using any pesticide on my plants as I just have predatory mites running around

I live in Canada where winters are much colder than you and my Alocasia Bambino keeps on growing 🤷‍♀️ and doesn’t drop leaves. I only have one Alocasia going on two years old and she is big and beautiful with even some original leaves and giving me lots f babies.

Very captivating and spot on! I always learn something new whenever I watch your videos. So, I usually water my main avocado tree every 5-6 days. I pruned it 3 weeks ago and the last time I watered it before today int he morning was nearly 4 weeks ago. It was doing great after I pruned it, the browning stopped. I thought I was safe from that nightmare of the leaves falling off. BUT over the last 2-3 weeks it has done nothing but bad. Just a month ago, my avocado tree had over 20 leaves, which still wasn't a lot. But at the moment there is only 1 leaf, which is about to fall off, I can see the crack between the handle and the stem. This tree is practically a stick. I've been noticing more and more tiny black specs or dots on the stem. One tiny hole even goes into the trunk. Yesterday morning I took a closer look and I saw a tiny bug ccrawwling around the stem, smaller than a fungus gnat. Its color was yellow, orange or maybe even white with a rather soft body. The stem is awfully covered in white layer, perhaps dust. However, these last 2 weeks was the first time in a long time that my avocado tree started pushing out or trying to push out new growth. There are 5-7 viable buds, growing, although these last 2 days the buds haven't gotten much bigger. The buds are starting to have dead tips. My tree's health is greatly compromised. The tree is super unstable. There are a lot of dried up roots. The soil smells sooooo bad and weird. A lot of roots are missing. there are quite a few nematodes. I found out that these stupid dranage holes had caps and were too small. So I bought an insecticide, suggested by the seller. I poured nearly a liter, expected a lot of water to drain out through the holes, but there was NONE. There is so much water in the soil, that's definitely gonna trigger those pathogens. My whole room smells like paint because I applied that insecticide. I also put 3 nugget or I don't know what they are called, which apparently slowkly release nutrients. It's getting late, so I will continue another time with the solution and my suspicion about pests, not fungus gnats. I think one day if I have an Alocasia, I won't have much difficulty taking care of it, but they do seem fragile.

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

Can you repot it into a pot with good drainage holes?

I'm never disappointed in your videos! Great info and fantastic humor🙃 I just checked the roots on my Alocasia today since her older leaves are getting droopy AND ironically just recieved my Oxalis Triangularis corms in the mail. So perfect timing for this video since you mention your purple shamrocks, as well💜☘

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

That is awesome!

That is indeed the flower. Looks like a peace lily flower when it opens up. My Alocasia Bambino flowered a few times last year.

I love your videos and funny commentaries as well as expressions. You never fail to cheer me up when I have plant woes. My alocasia polly was throwing a hissy fit when we had a rainy and/or windy season even though I live in South-east Asia where it originates from. It had three sizeable leaves and then began yellowing, with one singular leaf remaining which was showing yellowing spots. I still watered it and fed it not knowing if it was going to survive but it hung on for several months. It is an outdoor growing plant placed along my flat corridor with lots of bright indirect light (usually). After months of it just looking like it is and very slowly deteriorating, I noticed a small young shoot growing out two days ago. Hooray!

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 👍

@vickykent353

4 ай бұрын

YAY!! 🎉

@reddotdiva

4 ай бұрын

@@vickykent353The new shoot's leaf is looking to be big. It's beginning to unfurl now.

@vickykent353

4 ай бұрын

@reddotdiva The wait was well worth it then. Like they say, Patience is a Virtue! I don't know if I could have done that with just the one leaf for so long. I might have done what Richard wants to do so often 😅 pitch it. It must have been very sad looking. Good going for hanging in there. And congratulations. You're a great plant mom.

Mine has lost all its leaves when it's getting cold in autumn last year. I forgot to put it indoor to shield from the cold. I still keep the plant and pray it will shoot up something in spring. Thanks for sharing. Now I don't feel as bad since it's my fourth attempt to grow it.

They are so beautiful. I am saving for the Alocasia Frydek variegated type, but I have heard they are not so finnicky as some of the others!! Great information once again!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Looks nice that one

I got me a black velvet from the grocery store- I know big no no- but it was doing well and then leaves started turning. I thought old leaves they are dying off so I chopped them all off and then, boom I got me a new leaf. I surprised myself. I do find this video very helpful because this black velvet is my first Alocasia.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Glad you found it useful 👍

Chunky Aroid mix with lots of bark chips and perlite, charcoal etc will help control the watering situation as it will drain through straight away. Give it a water and wait ‘til it dries a little bit before the next water. I found the fibrous cocoa coir/soil/perlite mixes retained too much water and contributed to root rot and was too easy to over water. This chunky mix is also helpful for Calathea. Don’t let them go dry for long though, they hate that too! You’ll notice an uptick in watering demand as they start putting energy into new growth.

Ughh the uk is hard for plants in the winter especially when you're already in a low light house. I have to move all mine into the living room window and then pray for spring lol

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

I know right!

I love when you hug your plants in videos. This winter is the first time my black velvet went dormant. My Amazon is got spider mites and it’s in pon. I hope the spider mites didn’t kill it and I hope it is just going dormant.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

They deserve it 😂. Hope those spider mites die off

I had a friend give me alocasia on two separate occasions and each time only an hour after being home all the leaves wilted; no change in temperature and light exposure. Absolute divas.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Oh wow!

I bought an Alocasia like your Zammy, it flourished put out a new shoot from underneath, even produced a flower bud like yours. Then it started going back in the summer. loosing leaves ( I thought it was burnt with the sun) Over the winter it has had three lovely leaves with no sign of problems. Am going to try a better feeding and watering routine. Thanks.❤

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 👍

Wow this makes me feel much better! I like your channel, thank you

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Love the videos, and really appreciated your sense of humour 😊

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

I got my first Alocasia Polly yesterday as a gift, and this video is a God-send!!! ❤🎉

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

Great stuff 👍

Yes, it's a bloom on your Alocasia cuprea 'Red Secret'. This species seems to love putting out flowers. Mine is in perma bloom mode. As soon as I see them, I cut them out. Energy drain deluxe.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info!

Had issues with my dragon scale which I purchased in December all the leaves bar one fell off - the remaining leaf looked awful - I was going to throw it away but decided against that. Instead I was a little rebellious repotted to semi hydro. It perked up and now has given me a new leaf!

@ricosuaveon2

5 ай бұрын

What is semi hydro?

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Great stuff 👍

Bought my first alocasia 4 days ago at IKEA, an amazonica/polly and I won't lie I'm immediately attached... luckily I did tons of research beforehand and I know my conditions are good. However it was extrememly dry and when I gave it water it went straight through the drainage holes - I think the soil is hydrophobic. Debating on whether to immediately repot into a chunkier and well-draining mix but also feel like February is a little early for that. If anyone reads this, thoughts?? She is also rootbound as I see roots coming out the bottom of the pot. Your channel specifically has helped me so much over the past week, thank you so so so much. I love your videos and I feel at peace when learning from you, plus you keep me hooked! Some channels are super informational but not as entertaining and as someone with ADHD I kinda need that otherwise I don't listen/absorb the advice :)

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! You can repot whenever if you want to. As long as you’re not too rough it’s fine. Unless it’s really rootbound I’d leave it though and sit in water for a good couple of hours to fully saturate the soil

Yup, popping it under grow light works. And for my seedlings I found using a humidity dome will stop it from sacrificing old leaves when new one comes in. Lastly best to monitor the plant and give it extra water when you suspect new growth coming in (when the petioles in the newest leaf begins to enlarge a bit).

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Ooo i'll try the dome

@gaddaitherage8204

5 ай бұрын

@@SheffieldMadePlants I have two Colocasias (difficult seedlings) and one without the dome doesn’t size up. Just shrivels and replace old w new leaf of same size. One with the dome jumped 2 sizes while keeping the old leaves. Problem is it is outgrowing the dome real quick. Btw thanks for teaching me so much in my fledging plant journey!

Information and dramatic interpretation all in 1 video! Epic! Oscar's for all. Keep it up. 🎉🎉🎉

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Legend!

My frydek finally got over it's need for "one in one out" leaves after I put slow release fertilizer granules in it's medium. It's finally keeping it's leaves when it grows a new one!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Great stuff 👍

I enjoy how funny your videos are! 😊

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

I live in Stockholm (at a latitude north of mainland Scotland) and my Alocasia has got 7 leaves all through winter without any extra lighting and only 16 C in the room.

Hey just found your channel.Love it.Very helpful.Thanks.Happy greetings from germany 🙋

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

From my experience (Poland) the growing light only doesn't do much. Alocasias need also higher temperature to thrive. And around 20*, which I have in winter in the middle of room (not by the windows I mean), seem to not satisfy alocasias. And I actually threw out Sarian and Zebrina, because they were so weak that they constantly had one leaf and spider mites. Even in summer the amount of light wasn't good for them. I tried to make them good environment for 3 years, and I just don't want to experiment anymore 😅 And yes, that "thing" is a flower. Some people are cutting it, because they are thinking flowers are taking plants energy. But sometimes alocasia won't stop giving flowers, so I usually hold one flower for a little longer, and then I cut it, and give plant more fertilizer for "greens", and less for "flowering" (especially for these in semi-hydroponics).

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Yeah that flower didn't amount to much in the end

I live in New England and winters can be dark and brutal. Whenever we get a week that's particularly dark, I break out the grow lights. I found some that you can just pop into the soil and set on a timer. When there's more sun, I just wipe them down and store them for next winter! I've had good results!

Ha ha ha! I agree. Each Alocasia leaf is like a new baby. They are so vulnerable, that if anything is not to their liking, their leaves will wilt in a day or so, and turn into mush by day three. But they are so beautiful when they are healthy.

@SheffieldMadePlants

3 ай бұрын

So true

Yes oof. My first batch of plants included one. I managed to keep it alive for 4 years now and it's even lost all its leaves at one point but came back. Now it's looking sad again. These brown spots too.. I only keep it because it's one of my oldest plants at this point. It reaps very small reward

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Hehe i like it when it's happy tbf

Well, what a relief to see this video! And here I was thinking what a terrible plant parent I was when my Alocasia's leaves went yellow. Nothing I did made it happy! Thanks to your advice, I will not be afraid to try this plant again. They are astonishingly beautiful, or at least I think so. Please keep making these videos, they are humorous, encouraging and informative. This information will save many plants from an untimely death in a garbage can or compost heap! cheers. 🥰🪴🌴☘🪴🌱🌻

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Will do thank you

Alocasias can also be very picky about impurities in their water. As soon as I used the water conditioner that Mr Sheffield recommended in an earlier video, my alocasias started to thrive.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Great stuff 👍

I hate my alocasia!🤬

I couldn't help it... Right when you say "Alocasias are sensitive souls", I couldn't help but call my two Alocasias to my right drama queens 😂 It looks like both of mine need to move under the grow lights and have more feedings (I may have been putting that off for too long 😅). Thank you for sharing this! I'm sure my drama queens will thank you, too! lol

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

My pleasure 😊

Love your info and sense of humor 😂🤌🌿

@SheffieldMadePlants

27 күн бұрын

Thanks!

I swear by growing alocasia in Lechuza pon with their slow release fertiliser. I have never experienced dormancy with any alocasia (with only 8 hours of day light in winter, 60 % humidity) - the Lechuza pon and fertiliser make a huge difference. They grow like mad in it. My largest is Silver Dragon with 13 leaves and a 5 leaves baby plant. I grow all my alocasias in Lechuza pon with self-watering system. P.S. Your Alocasia azlanii is blooming :-)

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

It’s also dying 😭

I remember throwing away my oxalis and my alocasia, I thought it was dead :) Right now my alocasia's are in dormancy and I'm looking for another oxalis :)

You are so entertaining while you share your knowledge.

@SheffieldMadePlants

Ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

I had 10-day trip, leaving my plants with no heaters last January. Only Alocasia zebrina and Jacklyn that suffered. They are wilting. Thankfully they're back 3 hours after I watered.

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

Phew!

I just came across your channel, i enjoyed and laughed a lot so thank you! My plant died and i didn’t know why, but after watching your video i now understand what i did wrong and no , i didn’t throw it away 😅😂 thank Goodness! It now has two big beautiful leaves 😊. Thank you for your videos!❤

@SheffieldMadePlants

2 ай бұрын

My pleasure 😊

That shoot in the alocasia cuprea is a flower. It's better to cut off as they're not pretty and it takes a lot of time and energy to mature and bloom.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Yeah didn't amount to much

Good morning to you vary nice thank you for sharing your amazing video I always watch them

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

Yes, that's a bloom coming up. I was confused when mine first did that, too.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Cheers!

Thank you so much Mr Sheffield. I’ve just brought a Alocasia, which is in pretty good shape. And I brought it because it’s very beautiful 🤩 and I’m going to try to keep it that way, and I brought a water meter on you advice and I’m very glad I did. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags

@SheffieldMadePlants

3 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

I have a few Alocasia plants that are (miraculously) surviving, but the first one I had, I also threw away because I did not realise that it was going through a dormancy period! But now, the ones that I do own are fine. Although one likes to keep it as two leaves and only two leaves. Every single time that it grows a new leaf, one of the older ones suddenly dies and dramatically whispers, "peace out..." and I hate that, lol!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it's weird they do that

I planted my frydek and jacklyn outside (I live in northern Australia). Can confirm they were happy until Winter which gets down to about 9 degrees C, but they've popped up again in Spring - glad I didn't dig em up to bin them!

I'm Irish and I do say what the bejesus is happening to my alocasias! I bought loads of different ones, and they are now all corms sitting in my grow cabinet. I kind of hate them now but also can't wait until they return from the dead

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Haha love it! The resurrection thing is quite fun tbf

I got a few alocasias from small to giants. A few of mine had a huge mealybug problem to the point where i had to repot them and they hated it. A few months later and now they're just starting to bounce back extra strong. also on the fertilizing stuff I found that a weak weekly routine works well. I only really use a foliar spray and they love it

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip

I believe that it is an inflorescence. I don’t allow my Alocasia to dry out. I keep them a little moist like my Anthurium. I water when the top inch or so dries out. Has worked for me so far. I do find some Alocasia sturdier than others. My cuprea, dragonscale and scalprum are beasts and cause me no problems. The variegated frydek is a drama queen. Spider mites are the worst thing that happens in my opinion, but more often happens in summer when it’s hot.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 👍

I thought I had done something wrong, i had to remove 2 recently healthy leaves.. mind you, its booming now..our aussie summer is making it happy..

Gm gm gm 👋🏾.. I'm new to the family hope all is well everyone 🤗. Just wanted to say I enjoy your channel and it's very helpful an informative. Thank you an happy planting.

@Babygirl-pq7xx

5 ай бұрын

I have a question 🤔 I have a burgundy rubber plant that was standing tall leaves were saluting 😁. My grown light fell a hit some branches now she's looking very sad and limpy. Any suggestions. I'm so worried about her😔..

@Babygirl-pq7xx

5 ай бұрын

Sorry.. I meant growing light 🤦🏾‍♀️😁

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Welcome!!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Can you prune it to tidy it up?

Fabulous video, so much work went into every single second of it! I'm an Alocasia lover, them and bananas, and have so much to learn about Alocasias before I progress to Pharoah's Mask, my ultimate ambition.

@SheffieldMadePlants

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I'm one of those people spoiled with southern California weather. I've been dipping my toe into alocasia ownership. *fingers crossed* that I can keep them alive.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

You’ve got this ✊

I just moved my Stingray into the hydroponic grow room. The humidity, temperature and light is probably more hospitable to its fragile sensibilities. I plan on switching it to a hydro medium and see if it revives.🤞I live in the desert and rarely turn on the heat since the average indoor temp is in the low 70’s(F). The Stingray is the only plant that seems to be struggling.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

I'm experimenting with semi hydro too

Great video. I love alocasias but the dormancy thing upsets me. After seeing yr video I have decided to try try again. Thank you Mr. Sheffield

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

You’ve got this ✊

Good vid! Wish I'd seen it before my yucatan princess died and had learn the hard way too. I feel ya 😂 Btw, it is indeed a flower!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I put all mines in water with grow lights and they are beautiful

when i put my alocasia in direct sunlight they started to grow beautifully...

So glad i found this video, 😊

All my alocasias are in semihydro and fertilized well or they die. There is barely any light now in the winter and they lost most of their leaves, but that's how it goes

I feel you so much on the Alocasia. They are so beautiful, but I can only keep them happy in semihydro with a water reservoir. Also I hate how mine are leaning sideways to the window, so I cut them all back as I was frustrated. Now they have a grow light from above and are hopefully growing prettier. It looks like you Alocasia is about to flower. Are you planning on taking pollen?

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Nothing really happened with it in the end. Just shrivelled up

Omg! I’m not alone👍

I got myself two moisture meters. One for upstairs and one for downstairs. 😅

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Like your style

I've found that feeding them roughly every 2 weeks with a liquid houseplant fertilizer can help them retain leaves in their dormant period. If you don't want scraggly looking dead leaves lying around, then pruning off the dead leaf once it's, for lack of a better term, crispy helps a bunch. The plant has already gotten what it needed from that leaf and taking it away can help keep the plant healthy. Mine got a little cold damage when we bought it and it predictably dropped the worst affected leaves. It then lost everything that wasn't new growth through winter despite my best efforts. Alocasia are gonna alocasia. It looks like it's woken up though, as I can see a new bud emerging from the base. Fingers crossed for leaf number 4.

You are great: wonderful plant info n great comedy😅😅Thank you

@SheffieldMadePlants

Ай бұрын

Many many thanks

My Alocasias and Calatheas are the bane of my life, never have I felt such hatred and drama emit from a plant.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Amen

Ah, alocasia. My best friends and worst enemies. I kept telling people I don't know why they love me but they did. I was a complete beginner and my silver dragon, cuprea and polly were being happy little campers, thriving and growing. Until this autimn when the polly's leaves started crisping up, the silver dragon killed off all but one root and had to be transferred to water, and the cuprea got spider mites. I got a wentii that hated me in the beginning and I got mad and threw it out on the balcony for a month with zero watering. That one is the only one that's behaving now suddenly. I'll never figure out what exactly it is they want but I do love them.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

A mixed bag then!

Big box had Ninjas marked down to $5.......and I fell for it!!😭😭😭😭 as per usual, it was in a deco pot and retaining far too much moisture. Got all wonky and nasty, now in the plant closet enjoying some grow lights and getting to know the rest of the gang it will be living with at summer camp. Fingers crossed.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Sounds like a nice place to hang out

@leesmith6179

4 ай бұрын

Same story here: big box, $5, marked Alocasia but no variety. She was the last one, so I thought it would be interesting to try to resurrect her. Leaves dead as a hammer, but roots and bulbs/corms/whatever look great. I was a little embarrassed to carry her out of the store, but I can't resist a challenge. Mr. Sheffield, you have given me information, courage, and good cheer. She's currently in rehab.😊

I enjoy your vids immensely! I bought my alocasia off a clearance rack with only 1 leaf. It shot out few more leaves in the summer but moved some plants in from outside in the fall and did not quarantine them. Alocasia got mites really bad and i didnt think it would survive. It lost all but 2 leaves. Up until ydy it had 7 leaves! But alas i had to cut 2 off. I think i had let it get too dry. Im amazed that it grew like that in the winter time especially since we had a really big snow with temps below freezing. But i guess im very fortunate! I have stopped feeding everything cause a lot of what i read said stop feeding in the winter when dormant. Should i start feeding again. Thx for all youd help!

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Yeah best to stop feeding when it stops growing. Start again in spring

I live in the mid-Atlantic area of the US. I love alocasias and have about 6 different kind right now. I struggled with them losing leaves, dying back and never having more than three leaves at a time. 😢 All that changed when I moved some of them into leca (actually IKEA’s brand). I added one grow light because the room they’re in is facing North west and the ones in Leca are huge with multiple big, healthy leaves. Even the smaller ones which are in soil are doing great! I confess to letting them go drier than I should and usually use regular fertilizer (not hydroponic type, and certainly never do the three step deal that Leca says to use). I’ll probably switch over the smaller ones to Leca in the Spring. I recently discovered your channel and I love it!

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

That was helpful. I noticed mine had been growing slow but steady and is now dropping leaves.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

You are so entertaining 🥰 And Knowledgeable 🎓

@SheffieldMadePlants

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

The little thing that grew out of the alocasia that hasn't opened yet is a bloom.

I am an Alocasia 😂 but joking aside I bought a Ghost Dragon in the fall and every time he grows a new leaf its smaller on a really tall leggy stem. The only thing I can think of to compare him to is a Dr. Seuss drawing. I've put him into a south window with my purple oxalis which also looks skimpy and leggy. He turns to the sun but he has guttation on his leaves and they are turning wet and brown at the tip, I'm totally discouraged, I know looks aren't everything in a relationship but he's just let himself go. He has a new leaf coming and I'm waiting to see if it's going to be any bigger...........😢 By the way my purple oxalis is two toned isn't yours? And my leaves are more triangular and they move with the light, they open and close. You're lucky, it's bloody dark here by three o'clock and we've had two days so far where I saw the sun😢 we've got February March and April to get through and of course in all my wisdom I get all new plants in the fall, I'm even trying a lithops, don't ask about the one that I tried 20 years ago, it went poof! and disapeared 😱🥺

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Not got a two toned oxalis. Does that mean variegated?

@nicoleperron3315

5 ай бұрын

@@SheffieldMadePlants if you google oxalis triangularis you get a good picture of the dark and light color on the leaves

I went to the plant doctor for my alocacia just last week and got so much info on why the heck our relationship turned this winter. I got two of the unknown bulby leaf looking things in the Fall and everything else died off. The doc (just a friend at the nursery) said they are flowers! Don’t look it at all, but it’s their flower. 😆 so the plant is flowering and will use all its energy toward it, so if you want foliage to continue, you have to immediately cut off those flowering stems and it should continue back to growing just foliage again. I went a few months with just the flower things and it was unsightly. So glad I know now. But NOW I have the dormancy issue you talked about. It grew one leaf and then stopped. It isn’t even taking up water like it used to. I guess that’s part of the dormancy? I’m checking it every week and soil still damp enough where I can’t water it any more. I guess I’ll leave it be until it comes back from slumber. 😭

@SheffieldMadePlants

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip

Thank you very much.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

You bet!

I just bought an Alocasia Silver Dragon last night, wish me luck

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

🤞

For alocasia I'd recommend semi hydro. Specifically pon. Really handy for holidays. Have also been experimenting with keeping them in orchid medum with a little extra soil mixed in (scimilar conditions for zygopetalum) which has worked really well so far.

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

I’m experimenting with that

If you have problems to remember to fertilize, you could try to do it with every watering. You will just need to dilute it more. So instead of 10ml fertilizer every two weeks, you can also do 5ml every week (of course use the measurings that your fertilizer says). For alocasias I like to grow them semi hydropinic in lechuza pon and selfwatering pots.

I put mine under a grow light and it just put out a new leaf. 🥰

@SheffieldMadePlants

5 ай бұрын

Happy days!