10 Must Have Alocasia Plants

[@amieefowler]

Oh you’re talking about my favorite plant variety. Alocasia’s are one of my favs with Calathea being second😍😍

[@beverlysullivan1427]

I absolutely love, love the stingray alocacia. Love all your videos. 😊😊😊

[@melmac5173]

The Alocasia Scalprum was my first rare plant purchase - from Home Depot, no less, going on two years ago. LOVE it! It’s gone down to a corm a couple times but always comes back. Gotten so big, he’s out of my cabinet. Soft spot for my first love.

[@db-333]

My first Alcoacia was scalprum too love it !

[@javaniskaelflora]

Love the content💚🌿

[@blackbeauti1540]

Hi lovely video as always, am just getting into alocasia was scared of them, I have just brought a low rider and wentii at lidl supermarket for £5.99 ech. But my favourites are black velvet, frydek green & frydek variegated. So far I love the low rider all of mine are in semi - hydro.

[@thrill.h0use]

We need an Alocasia tier list

[@scb41163]

I really like watching your videos. You’re so great at explaining things! A natural teacher. I watch lots of content on plants and you are the most down to earth, non-intimidating and enthusiastic plant teachers around. Thank you so much for your work.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Thank you so much!💚

[@clearwaterbeachhomesearchm5957]

Drea. YOU LOOK GREAT. Hope things are going great for you. Thanks for the video.

[@dora9368]

The Alocasia Jacklyn is my favorite Alocasia ❤🌿👍

[@javaniskaelflora]

Love all plants💚🌿

[@monicacaliber3953]

Loving your videos! Please do a video about how you treat spider mites on alocasia.

[@yourteacher458]

Plants and the sea...I love both.Can't wait for any sea creatures you may want to share with us.A big hug from Poland, Irena

[@shmpooch]

Oh I absolutely need a batwing alocasia! It's been on my wishlist for a while ❤

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Right?! How could you not want one???

[@lolisaw1130]

Your hair is absolutely gorgeous!!

[@pinstripesuitandheels]

@@lolisaw1130 isn't it?

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Thank you so much💚

[@hanstera_deliciosa]

Thanks for another informative video! 🤗

[@ParrotplaySix]

Just got a Stingray plant on Palmstreet a few days ago. I have always wanted one after seeing it at my local plant store. Thanks for introducing everyone about that app.

[@adamtravis9380]

Crazily enough I got a huge Alocasia ninja at Trader Joe’s about two months ago!!

[@patricialux6197]

Hello! New here. New to houseplants. New to Alocasias!! Before knowing anything i bought a Medallion, a 'Jaclyn', and Calatheas! And im not even at home but at a friend's house while my apt is renovated-- so they have to be moved again! Oh dear. I'll do my best. Im armed with all info ive learned from you. Im already obsessed with houseplants and your channel is so great!! Thanks--- subscribed. Am so excited about plants but hope i dont go crazy. ( small studio) i used to be orchid hobbyist--- all the leaves are the same, tired of them!! Now nuts about crazy beautiful foliage!!!

[@katydid853]

You look so beautiful, Drea! Love your videos. I always learn so much! 😊

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Thank you so much!💚

[@RinirocksArtistry]

I love my black velvet! I also recently found the Ninja, and I am in love!

[@jetterasmussen6577]

Zebrina, Ninja, Tiny dancer, Pink Dragon and Melo are the favorites that I already own. Frydek is a wishlist plant of mine. I recently was buying from a private seller. But when I wanted to pick it up (she lived 1,5 hours away), she wasn’t home. And afterwards she found out that it had spider mites. Pfeew, I dodged a bullet with that one.

[@Planty-Mandy]

One of my favourites that you didn’t mention is the Brancifolia! They don’t look like much as babies but they get super tropical and beautiful quickly.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Oh, I just looked it up and it’s very tortum like💚💚💚

[@marymorris9421]

Got to get one.

[@Danielalocasia]

Yay love an alocasia vid. I just got home from PlantCon and I picked up a dragons breath, a variegated odora, and a variegated Frydek.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Plantcon was crazy busy! I just got home as well and I’m beat😴

[@Oohkamitama]

Alocasias and anthuriums are my all time favorites to take care of. Any of my other plants from another genus I usually just have 1 that I’ve kept and sold/gave away the rest.

[@nicolecmke]

Right now (because it changes), my favorite alocasia is my scalprum. 🥰 I absolutely love its visual and physical texture. The emergent leaf is a beautiful dark green (emerald?) and when they harden, the leaves are almost black. Amazingly beautiful plants!

[@erikabredahl5326]

First off. You are so pretty. I love your hair. Second……. I love my Tiny Dancer!

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Thank you!💚

[@dora9368]

What a nice comment and it's true she is pretty with gorgeous hair!❤

[@hedgewitch59]

I love my alocasias too. They're so unusual. There's one thing that's gone astray with plant producer's naming though. The Micholitziana Green Velvet is the striking dark green variety with the whitish veination and the variegated form is the Frydek which to me is stunning. I bought a baby Green Velvet that threw out one gorgeous variegated "Frydek" leaf then reverted back. I can't wait to grow the corms on. I could get both. I love your channel. Thank you. 🙏

[@ceeceejacinto7244]

I was literally going to say that Alocasia Cuprea creeps me out low key. Reminds me of an alien creature as well.

[@gaddaitherage8204]

My alocasia micholiztiana is about 3 feet tall and has leaves about 18inches long. It has 5 stems in the same pot and got very unwieldy. It was my highest maintenance plant I have but I loved it.

[@wendib6028]

Loving your hair style

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Thank you!

[@Paula-sw2tt]

I have a very juvenile A. Stingray and I love it! The only other Alocasia that I have is the A. Silver Dragon. I don't have room for large Alocasias.

[@sonyad.5942]

I have an Alocasia Silver Dragon that has been surviving for almost a year now! My only previous experience has been with Alocasia Polly and it has been eternally on the struggle bus between spider mites and underwatering. I just moved it to a brighter spot since you said non-jewel ones like a lot of light. My success with the Silver Dragon is almost making me want to try other Alocasias. A local seller had a Black Velvet and Bambino for sale last week. I was tempted to buy them, but I wasn’t sure how far away she is and the semi-annual local plant sale is coming up in a little over a month, so I might be able to find some there. That’s where I got the juvenile Silver Dragon. She also had a small Tiny Dancer, but I didn’t want to gamble that I’d be able to keep them both alive and the Silver Dragon was cheaper and a little prettier, IMO!

[@kelsey9384]

Same here, I have a baby silver dragon… and haven’t ventured far from that since they seem a bit temperamental! Mine has been in water since I got it!

[@sonyad.5942]

@@kelsey9384I got a baby Cuprea and an Azlanii at a plant sale yesterday! 🤞🏻And a Calathea White Fusion and I blame Drea! 🤣

[@NightlifeTyrant]

Dope!

[@kellypearsall4540]

I am literally watching your video for one minute and I had to comment on your plant behind you on the bookcase. It’s beautiful, is that pearl and Jade?

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Yes it is and thank you💚

[@carolinebaines8735]

I just got a Low Rider which is a mutant dwarf of the Portora. I'd love a portora but I definitely don't have room.

[@jamiecalvert9242]

Walmart was selling the black ninja. I’ve got one and have seen them a lot. It is easy and gorgeous

[@IAN-kq3cg]

Cuprea and jacklyn is in my wishlist, growing black valvet and dragon silver now, black valvet looking good but dragon silver need more love 😂

[@laurenelyse9686]

My cuprea and black velvet were my favorites in my collection. Sadly, I didn’t know how to keep them alive. Will definitely be trying again soon! My silver dragon is quite happy tho. I’m going to move them all to LECA and smaller ones to pon. What substrate do you use?

[@agathan.944]

This video is absolutely delightful! Thank you for sharing your plants and your thoughts. I believe that every Alocasia has its own amazing beauty. Because of the space limitation I have only "sculptured leaf" varieties. My current favorites are A. melo and A. infernalis. But I still wonder - are infernalis and scalprum the same plants?

[@irairod5160]

I have purchased "Ninja" from Home Depot, sold in the taller, tapered ceramic containers LeafJoy (Prover Winners) styles their plants in.

[@GreenWitch1]

My favorite Alocasia is the Gagaena Albo. I have a baby and ready enjoying the variegation. It looks a lot like the Odora Reticulata (sp?)

[@MrWolfheart111]

My Alocasia Wentii I got from walmart ($30)... I didnt know how massive it gets... she needs a repot after 2 months. You could actually see her grow if you looked closely. Its amazing She's MASSIVE... lol repot tomorow :| Peace...

[@Planty-Mandy]

I have a Variegated Odora (Okinawa Silver) and I’m not a huge fan. The white parts always are warped and smaller so the leaves are lopsided and look sick. I have it in Pon, use Foliage Pro, Calmag, and Silica. It’s under grow lights so the next step is trying it in actual sunlight. But I’ve seen similar pictures online so I’m not the only one struggling with it. The alternative I’d suggest is the Variegated Macrorrhizos. They are quite similar but it grows way better and always has perfectly shaped leaves.

[@LillyLiger24]

the alocasia cuprea reminds me of a trilobite. which in my opinion is pretty cool

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Oh yeah! Never thought about that before but you’re right!

[@T216-n3h]

I'm surprised Alocasia aloha didn't make the list. I think its technically a colocasia but spider mites love it all the same.

[@irairod5160]

Stingray is one of my favorites, but I've had 3 or 4 and ALL of them have succumbed to spider mites. No matter how vigilant I've been and how diligently I've treated them, they have eventually died.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

😢

[@marymorris9421]

I just realized that I have more Alocasias than I thought I had.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

This frequently happens to me when I’m like “I don’t have that many of _insert plant name here_” and then I take a count and I’m like “Apparently I have a lot…….”🤣

[@odettev8955]

Great video. I am new to Alocasia...can one wet the leaves of the Black Velvit? I don't want to make them rot like the begonia when wetting the leaves. 😊

[@sreedevivn3010]

Would ❤ to see sealife 😊

[@jenniferdaniels3076]

I thought my variegated Alocasia lost variegation 4 leaves later it started getting variegation, then each one after has had a good amount of variegation. But it was a big scare. I love Alocasia!

[@lifepathjourney3638]

Do you have care guide for " Calathea warscewiczii “Jungle Velvet”🤷?

[@AlohaPlantLife]

I don’t have one for that specific plant, but I care for it the same way as all of my prayer plants and I do have a care guide for prayer plants in general

[@SparkleInMoonlight]

Alocasia Ninja is red on the leaf undersides once it is more mature :-) The more mature she is, the redder the undersides get

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Wonderful!!!💚

[@growmance2191]

i got an Alocasia Jacklyn i named it Aloster after my favorite Hasbin hotel Character

[@MT-bk5go]

Frydek gets crazy petioles like Cuprea, I bought mine with long petioles and I'm still thinking if I should cut the long leafs or not

[@pinstripesuitandheels]

No Drea, dont do this to me! It's the end of the growing season and I don't have enough grow lights at it is. I do not need more alocasias! Or do I...?

[@AlohaPlantLife]

😂

[@daytona1295]

You can never have enough 😁

[@carolinebaines8735]

I love my Ninja. It is easier than the BV. They're in big box stores in my area.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

I haven’t checked big box stores in awhile. I’ll have to schedule a trip

[@normandgoupil382]

I really enjoy your videos!! I'm not knocking you growing plants indoors but I need to ask you where you live in Hawaii? I don't understand why you don't Grow your plants outdoors because it would solve a lot of your problems. I'm 69 years old have been growing plants for over 50 years!! I have some of the rarest plants in the world!! I grow all my plants outdoors and have very few problems. I have over 120 Tillandsia on my lanai. I live in Keaau!! I've been living here for 13 years and don't think I've ever seen a spider mite in all that time. Maybe you don't have any property where you can put your plants. Sincerely, Normand from the big Island Sometimes it is what is beautiful that carries us.....

[@KnittedSister]

The Cuprea totally looks like a xenomorph from the alien movies. 😅

[@AlohaPlantLife]

😂

[@alvaferjoe2117]

I have a variegated micholitziana (Frydek) since mid 2020 and it never reverted. 98% of the corms I harvested from it were variegated. I now have a dozen of the same plant at home and sold and given away over a hundred corms and plantlets that were all variegated. Now with my stingray…. It reverted. I’ve had for 3 years and the variegation never came back. There’s not single variegated corms and plantlets too. Ouch

[@AlohaPlantLife]

That’s crazy!

[@lynnecalli]

How do you keep leaves from flopping over???

[@AlohaPlantLife]

It’s only an issue on my cuprea and I use chopsticks, twine, and those miniature hair clips

[@karibrown1502]

I got Spider Mites from my Sting Ray and took out two plants :(

[@AlohaPlantLife]

😢

[@Kelly_Silverman]

I have a black velvet And it has grown out in a weird manner (I wish we could post picture replies) I posted it on Reddit and everyone told me it was "Leggy" And how did I even get it to do that? 🤦🏽‍♀️ The plant is alive and the leaves are big and nice but the vines have stretched out very long... I admit it does look weird😮 People said that it needed more light and I'm thinking; it sits in about 10 hours of California sunlight by the window how much more light does it need?? Believe it or not the black velvet is one of the least talked about.. so there isn't a lot of help that I've been able to get for it.

[@AlohaPlantLife]

Are you on Facebook or Instagram and could send me a picture there? What direction does the window it’s in face?

[@Kelly_Silverman]

@@AlohaPlantLife Sent a request to you on IG messages... Once you say hello back they'll allow me to send you the picture. And that's a South facing window that it's in.

[@lydia_n_au]

😍🪴

[@tumblina7876]

All plants will grow under a proper grow light…. But it depends on the wattage of light… not all lights are created equal.

[@SuperManning11]

When I saw that this guy had digestive problems I got very excited that finally there was something that was perhaps going to address some of my issues. Unfortunately, my problems are very different, and I don’t think any of these are going to work for me. I am 62 and suffer from Chronic Post-Radiation Enteritis, resulting from radiation treatment I got as a child. I had to retire at age 52 because of these stomach problems and once I was away from the structure of work, my ADHD got much, much worse. My diet is very restricted - no fiber, very little fruit and only vegetables that have been cooked so much that they are little more than mush. I don’t support most supplements - they either pass right through or they get stuck and wreak total havoc, landing me in the E.R. So many doctors have made valiant attempts to treat all the things going on with my body, but so the only thing that has helped is cannabis, which also was prescribed by my doctor to get me off of pain meds. I remain ever-hopeful and certainly willing to try new things

[@andyx6827]

Jewel alocasia isn't a scientific term. It's like trying to fit all humans into "tall human" and "short human". What if someone is exactly average, lmao? It doesn't work that way, it's a complete BS term 😂

[@tinapomfrey5412]

Seriously? Who cares if it isn't scientific? When you say "jewel" , those familiar with alocasia know that it is on the smaller side.

[@Planty-Mandy]

I kind of wonder if it separates the larger “elephant ear” types that have leaves that point up, compared to a “jewel type” that has leaves that point down. That seems like a good indicator of future size.

[@marionschwitzner8013]

I bought myself a bambino pink variegated today. It was on my wishlist, so happy. Thanks for the video.

[@andyx6827]

​@@tinapomfrey5412 Obviously it's a fun term that is fun to use, but it's a little pointless to try to divide everything into these two categories. Several times during this video she wasn't sure which category to use, when the simple reality is that these categories aren't dead-set and you don't need to put everything into a box. Micholitziana and Cuprea are obviously medium-sized alocasias.

[@MrWolfheart111]

OMG That variegated stingray.... FAKE... lol kidding...