My Very Best Alocasia Growing Tips!

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May your Alocasia journey bring you lots of leaves and very few problems. 😊
All the Alocasias in this video have either been grown from corms or from 4” nursery pots. Feel free to ask me about them. I love to help!
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[@myriamh.2182]

I Like your chill positive advise. I feel someone plant KZbinrs tend to make it an exact science. I Like your approach way better.also you have beautiful plants

[@leafydiva]

Thank you so much for the kind words. I really appreciate it! ☺️

[@brookewarra9520]

I almost never comment on videos but I just discovered your channel and as someone who is fairly new to houseplants (about a year now) and just brought home my first alocasia (a rehab from a box store), I just have to say: one of the most frustrating things has been searching the internet for trustworthy, real-world advice on plant care but your videos are *fantastic*. I wanna go make some tea and just listen to you explain what's worked for you and see what I can apply in my home's environment. So often online information leans toward sales or whatever looks cute on camera but you're just very straight-forward about what's worked for you, and gah, anyway, so glad to have found your content.

[@roslynchandler7043]

Hi neighbor it feels good to see someone that lives close to you. I love your videos your plants are so beautiful. See you in the next video.

[@leafydiva]

Thanks so much

[@Stef_T-G]

I added a heat mat for the qinter since I'm in Canada and they love it! They don't even know it's winter! Sadly my humidity is hard to maintain, but I put the humidifier right next to them!😅

[@boopeepope56-ey5gz]

I'm in Ohio it gets very cold. In my plastic grow tent I use heating pads to raise humidity I put a large bowl of water on the heat mat. Does wonders the love the higher humidity.

[@Stef_T-G]

@@boopeepope56-ey5gz I don't have space for a bowl of water tho 😅

[@bukskarl]

Girl you are the queen of Alocasia ❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥

[@leafydiva]

💚💚💚💚💚😊

[@mayasixtus1573]

Your channel is beautiful, thank you.

[@jillianleblanc9370]

Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection beautiful houseplants lovely collection beautiful

[@boopeepope56-ey5gz]

I ordered an alocasia regal shield as my first. I'm listening to you. Your alocasia are beautiful. Thank you for advice

[@leafydiva]

Wonderful! The Regal Sheild was one of my first indoor Alocasias. It’s a great one to start out with! 😊

[@ildikojones7073]

I live in New Jersey and I have a love - hate relationship with alocasias. I have managed to kill a few, and I’ve given up on some bc they were too much trouble. One Polly is about five-six years old and she has died on me several times. Currently she’s near death😢. Another Polly has only two leaves at present. Sigh… My favorite alocasia is the Tiny Dancer. I bought three of them… just in case I kill one or two…😅 Yours are all stunning!

[@therealseancary]

Thanks for the tips! I really enjoy your vids. I'm all about anthurium but I juat bought my first alocasia. Wahoo! 🎉

[@gracewithnature]

Thank you for sharing. I’m absolutely going to hunt for a feather duster as I have spider mites not just on my alocasias but on other plants as well 😊

[@leafydiva]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Bexi222]

The feather duster technique - are you not worried about transferring spider mites from one plant to another, if they cling on to the duster?

[@karrenabraham9471]

New subie!❤

[@Tessalew23]

What fertilizers do you use? I love your videos!

[@leafydiva]

Foliage Pro and Miracle Grow or Osmocote as a slow release

[@Tessalew23]

Thanks!

[@MissCarey1420-yf5ev]

Nice, yes If you have a bird of paradise, is it in Pon?

[@leafydiva]

Unfortunately, I don’t have a BOP. I don’t have the space anymore! 😅

[@None2Lose]

I love my Alocasia's! I'm fairly new to the plant scene, but I went all in. Alocasia, calathea, ZZ's and syngonium are my favorite right now. What kind of water do your alocasia prefer? I started with filtered tap water but recently I'm using distilled. I don't see much of a difference.

[@leafydiva]

I use tap water for all of my plants. 😊

[@None2Lose]

​@@leafydiva Including calathea and carnivorous plants?

[@elpatiotrasero7501]

Hi, from Colombia; Rain , very much rainwater the best for plants

[@bambicrunning]

Do you have a link for the feather duster?!

[@mosey5878]

Any info about seramis to put plants on

[@allie2121]

What is the name of the second alocasia you showed? You showed the chantieri .. something i cannot find for the life of me on my own... and then the frydek. I found it at lowes and its been GIVING i just dont know what kind it is !! and its corms are going nuts in some fluval.

[@bambicrunning]

What do you mean by mineral substrate?

[@larryl4881]

What kind of light does your Polly like?

[@hennesseyme9112]

What kind of duster do you use???

[@karrenabraham9471]

Hello I just bought the last plant in your video the one you feather dusted, what is the name of that plant? Mine didn't have a name on it when I purchased it 😂

[@leafydiva]

Alocasia Polly! 😊

[@MarisaAndChew]

lol I have a zebrina that WAS looking for light so it's like a V shape that's really spread open. It cracks me up but its pumping out leaves so I guess it found what it needed! Last year it went dormant on me so having gone from one stem to 3 and a baby one just pushed up this week making 4 makes me feel good about its position, despite the excessively odd V shape hahaha... Surpringly to ME my bambino seems to be the most dormant of them all this year, but it also is suffering the hardest from spider mites. Oh not true, my Azlanii went so dormant that the original corms vanished but I was able to find a handful of small corms that I've got in a prop box so I am not overly concerned. Alocasia are genuinely so interesting and fun. I have one that I don't have an ID on bc it's leaves were too immature to know. It has one leaf left thanks to spider mites and the leaf being paper thin, but its funny bc it is literally touching my alocasia reverse and my alocasia cuprea which are both thriving with multiple stems... My jacklyn is suffering on the top but putting out babies also touching the others. It's a while lot of "I don't know what you need speak English!!!!!" but so far they haven't learned English... I am just going with temp swings and spider mites being the issue since it is winter and I let the temp drop into the 60s then bring it back up to the 70s if I get chilled which I know isn't the best for my plants BUT I like to be comfortable and why pay for heat if I AM comfortable!!! Happy New Year Dana!!!

[@leafydiva]

Happy New Year Marisa! I’m really glad to hear you’re figuring your Alocasias out. Spidermites can sometimes suck the fun out of growing Alocasia, but it looks like you have things under control. I saw a spidermite on my Alocasia Batik for the first time. I noticed the water resovoir was dry and the leaves were drooping so it was probably stress that brought the spidermites there. It’s a never ending battle!

[@MarisaAndChew]

@@leafydiva it really is and it's not even a battle worth fighting like you said in your video it's just about managing it. My Yucatan princess gets them quite a bit and I've no joke just grabbed furniture polish and wiped the leaves that needed it with that 🤣 the plant doesn't seem to even notice and I don't get a mess like with a different spray... My thought was they say to use something that weighs the mites down so they struggle to move around and by lazy default that was the closest thing 🤣 I have pet birds in my plant spaces so I can't just pull out every type of chemical like some can without risking killing my pets. Do you wash your feather duster between plants/uses? I've been going back and forth between that or a Swiffer Duster but I have the idea of having to buy refills! 😭

[@ghurlwryte8]

Thx 🧗🏾‍♀️⛰️🧗🏾‍♀️⛰️🥝🍑🍊