I noticed once an Alocasia has acclimated to your environment, they're surprisingly hardy. Anytime a new leaf is beginning to unfurl, I'll slightly increase how often I water it because I noticed the size and uniformity of the new leaf is affected by how much water it receives. Just my experience though!

Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo👍👍🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🤝 des belles plantes est bien expliqué

Just the info I needed. Tysm.!

2:12 - makes sense. Recently got an alocasia zebrina, and this is exactly what it did. I was woried; so, this video helps a lot. Thanks!!

Great video! Lots of practical tips--super informative. Thanks!!

I’ve learned a lot about Alocasia care from this video. Thanks for sharing!

OMG!!! I’m so excited to try this perlite approach!!! All my alocasia’s have died and I want to be a successful grower because I’m obsessed with alocasia’s! Thank you!!!

Thanks for that video!! Really useful 😊

Beautiful collection thanks for sharing needed some help

Beautiful collection of alocasias!

What a great, informative video!

I 💚 alocasias! I really enjoyed this video, thank you.

I think I have watched this one 4 or 5 times! I could watch alocasia videos all night. Feel free to showcase them again!

Thanks Jeff, I brought a really nice one of these plants a month back and remembered you had made a video. Humidity seems be an issue from what I see in videos from the US, not something that is bothered with where indoors are concerned here in Australia. Cheers and thanks for this informative video, you’ve given me some ideas 😀😀👍❤️

Great video soo informative 👍 Perfect timing just bought a Dragon Scale ,Thank you

Hi Jeff, 👋 all the varieties of alocasia's. They are just stunning.

The oil slick shine on some of those leaves 😍

What a great and informative video. Thank you for sacrificing your bushy dragon scale to show us how to divide the plant haha

Gosh those outside plants are BEAUTIFUL! The first purple one? I'm in love

What a beautiful Alocasia....

Perfect timing!! My alocasia went dormant and I was wondering what to do next.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video! I’ve been bitten by the alocasia bug and currently have 8 kinds! My silver dragon also got root rot and I tried your perlite hack and not only has it bounced back, but it’s thriving! It’s doing so well, that I’m tempted to leave it in perlite. Thank you soo much for the tip!

great and informative video thank you!

This was so helpful. I got my first Alocasia and it died as soon as I got it home. I was about to throw it when I noticed the "bulb" looked alive and now it's coming back!!

Thanks for the info on the corms and smaller plants. A mystery alocasia just popped up in the pot next to the alocasia lauterbachiana I have. Rounded leaf and spotted stem. Hopefully the mix of coconut coir will help in its own pot. Also did the same for some corms that came off of my alocasia black stem. Fingers crossed that it works. Found your video while looking for care for jewel alocasia since I'm getting an imperialis. It's really put to rest any unease of things I read from earlier places, and a past bad experience with a polly (which wasn't really my fault). Wonderful mojito and black coral(?) you have. You should look at the 'Hawaiian Punch' variety if you like colocasia, too.

Alocasia definitely loooove humidity! Some will tolerate a little less, but many won't and in general they all *prefer* higher humidity. I love that they will give a second chance by regrowing from corms if they die back due to less desirable conditions

I used perlite for the first time to pot a plant (not an alocasia, but an orchid I am trying to rehab) but I was pretty stressed that it didnt seem to keep any moisture. Seeing you use perlite was reassuring :) thanx :)

Thank you so much for this video!!! I received a beautiful Alocasia Polly for Mother’s Day and it is progressing well. I think I’m hooked, and would like more. Do you find they all require the same degree of care or in your opinion are some Alocasia’s more difficult than others?

Thank you for this video! I just lost a stingray alocasia to root rot, hopefully I can keep the next one alive.

Great video!! I love my alocasias. I have zebrina, dragon scale, black velvet, scalprum and polly so far! I would love to find a cuprea sometime! Thanks for the tips 😚

Thanks for the vid. Recently bought a Silver Dragon, so far so good. If I run into a problem I know who to call 😅

Hey, thank you foe doing this! I have a sil error dragon and it seems to have a flower bulb coming out after crispy leaves and some yellowing. I placed it in my guest room which is sunny, bright and warm. I also had a levoit in there for my maculata. The flower popped out in no time. There is also another stem appearing. I have no idea what's that about. At this point, what should I expect?

Just came across your video. I am currently trying to bring my silver dragon back to life. The roots appear to be ok so I'll just keep my eye on it. Thank you

I’m so happy to hear that they can tolerate a little bit of lower humidity. I wanted to get some but have been worried that they won’t tolerate our low humidity. With huge humidifiers blasting I can only get at best to 45-50.

I'm waiting to buy a dragon scale and African mask. They're so pricy. I'm so afraid to just buy a leaf cutting though. Your plants look super. Learned some good tips. Thanks.

These plants are all beautiful.. Sooo.. can i use the purple grow like to them?

Thanks Jeff! I'm loving the alocasias, hoping that one of mine comes out of dormancy, but we'll see...

I have my Frydek, Silver Dragon, Dragon Scale, Stingray, Black Stem, Boa, Zebrina, and Sarian. Coming out of winter, these all made it through but I think I lost my Sarian as it lost all of its leaves. Gotta check the roots. My Silver Dragon and Dragon Scale both went into dormancy. The Dragon Scale is coming back and two corms from the Silver Dragon are coming back. My Frydek was very large until the winter progressed and it lost its older leaves one by one. I'm down to one leaf, BUT it flowered and I'm getting berries soon. I hope after this cycle it will still make it. I also have a Frydek corm that is coming out now, too. It is a learning process and a journey that I'm glad I'm not alone on! Thanks for this awesome and informative video!!

I only have two (a black star and a black velvet) and transitioned both from soil to diy pon with no problem. The velvet even tried to flower 3 separate times. I removed the inflo each time. I use a wicking system and only have to water every 9ish days - great for someone who travels a lot.

Lovely Alocasia collection yeah alot of people can struggle with this type of plant. My issue more with watering since they like there soil moist so watering can be tricky. All my plants do have a good airy mix. Also getting yellow leaves at the tips or around the edges or in the middle of the leaves. I found an Alocasia Dragon Scale for €9 in Ikea so I thought i give it a try. Has lost two leaves at the bottom mainly the smaller size ones. And has given me two new leaves but one looks deformed looking for some reason. I have been thinking getting the Alocasia Cuprea looks so Alien like and metallic too the Azlanii one is more expensive also another pretty one. Also want the Alocasia Sinuata which definitely more amazing than the Dragon Scale the leave colour and structure. My all time favourite wishlist one is the Alocasia Scalprum so mystic looking and dragon look aswell. Not a fan of perlite anymore now builts up green colour and too powdery want to get the bigger perlite size but cannot find. Thank you for sharing how to cut the stem i have been doing it wrong cutting at the bottom of the stem 😰. Will know for future. I think they need some bulbs inside the plant to provide growth and nutrients aswell so i would not remove all of it.

This video was so helpful to me. I brought a Polly back from IKEA and it's my first alocasia which is kinda alien compared to most regular house plants. But a couple weeks after I brought it back, it started dropping leaves so I thought it was dying but now I'm pretty sure it's going dormant because of my air conditioning. So now I'm just gonna keep taking care of it, see what happens, and start propagating the corms 🙂

Love Alocasias have some at home

I'm glad I saw this video, I have a baby silver dragon that is yellowing and about to go -- now I know not to toss it, I will put it in perlite and hope that it will thrive this time.

I'm slowly introducing alocasias to my collection. So far I have 2: Black velvet and dragon scale (???) I have both of them in PON. They're doing great. 🥰 thanks for the video, Jeff.

I believe that discoloration or lack of color on the back is leaf edema, because that sometimes happens to my Alocasia Bambino when I accidentally overwater it, and then it starts to "bleed" out the red coloring

I’ve gotten so much out of this video! Thank you

Thanks for this video. I just repotted my Alocasia Black Velvet, Black Ninja and Silver dragon and i got some corms. I was actually researching what to do with them hence I stumbled upon your video. I think my Alocasia Nebula has just gone into dormancy. The leaves suddenly curled up, started yellowing and died off. I checked on the bulb and it still firm and the roots are still healthy. I think I accidentaly cause its dormancy by forgetting to water it how I normally would. I was so afraid to over water it. Btw, my collection includes: Polly, Dragon Scale, Silver Dragon, Black Velvet, Black Ninja, Cuprea, Zebrina, Frydeck, Purple Cloak, Lauterbachianna and Bambino.

Love your alocasias! Got my first one a few days ago, a black velvet. Been heaps excited looking for different types but didn’t want to get ahead of myself, wanna be sure that I can look after them before I get more…. Are the silver dragon and dragon scale leaves textured is smooth? Thank for sharing your knowledge! 🙏

Great video! I’m so curious about the ones you keep outdoors. What is the outside temp where you are? Do you have to bring them in at night?

Great video today. I had a Pink Dragon go dormant on me and only from my shear laziness in not getting around to throwing it out did I realize that it was in fact only dormant and not dead. It has just this month given me the biggest leaf yet and a new one is forming still. It is a gorgeous plant right now with like 4 or 5 leaves. I have 2 Maharani's, One has a leaf with a lot of yellowing spots on it. I may have to cut that leaf off. The other plant has a tiny off shoot growing at the edge of the pot, so cute. My Black Velvet is not looking so great. Only has 3 small roundish leaves and it looks like it wants to start curling up and dieing. Don't know what to do with that one. I was about to give up on Alocasia's after I thought I killed the Pink Dragon, because I also killed another one, can't remember the name. But now it is my best looking one. OH, I also have a little Dragon Scale that is doing very well. That one is pushing out leaf #5 or 6, it is a small plant. I need to repot that one but it's doing so well, my grandmother's words keep going thru my head "leave well enough alone". I look forward to the updates.

My alocasia Polly was (is) one of my easiest plants. So then I bought a black velvet-which flowered! I decided I needed an alocasia collection immediately. I now have Silver Dragon, pink dragon, dragon scale, cuprea red secret, reversa, melo (my favorite? Maybe?), and frydek. I think that’s it? Someday I’ll have dragon’s breath and dragon’s tooth. But they’re so expensive lol.

What is the soil mixture you use for the silver dragons?

what’s the settings on your grow lights?

What plant light bulbs do you use?

found your channel a few days ago while hunting for propagation tips and ive been binging all of your videos. Could you tell me the names of the ones with the thicker stems around the 10:21 mark? thanks!

good to see a video not talking about fancy media like pon

I just bought a Alocasia Zebrina. I have it in a West window, only gets 1 or 2 hours of direct light. I've had it only for 2 days, if it goes dormant which could happen I know now not to throw it away. I keep a bowl of water near it for humidity.

I've got some black coral colocasia's which are just booming under my canopy outside, and I'm down in the SE, so it's hot. I also have two Mojito's inside, and am thinking about putting them outside, but don't know if they can handle it yet, as they are very small and I've not had them long. I also have Pharoah's mask, Dragon's tooth, Poly, Dragon's breath, Bambino, Stingray, Frydek, Purple Sword, Sarian, Dragon's scale, Silver dragon and Mayan Mask. Wow, I didn't realize how many Alocasia's/Colocasia's I had until I started listing them. I also have Californicus (Green Alocasia) and Mammoth Colocasia outside. My question is which medium is best to grow them in, as it seems too hard to keep them from going dormant in soil. So right now I'm trying a chunky soil with a crap load of perlite in it. But I see you're doing pure perlite with some and other mediums with others. Any help is appreciated, as we all know how finicky these guys are. Thanks.

Threw mine out found them regrouping in my compost pile. Thought another was dead planted another in the pot, they old one reappeared😅

Can you elaborate on "Alocasia like chunky soil?“.

Please tell me what is perlite!?

2:43 this is exactly what my silver dragon is doing but I’ve had it for at least 6 months. I thought it was getting root rot but I took it out and the roots looked completely healthy. Also found a few nice sized corms! I have one tiny little leaf coming in from a pup. But other than that, the older leaves have pretty much have all went droopy and/or yellow and fallen off. One last one looks like it’s doing the same thing. The leaves that are left all looks healthy for now. I wonder if it got offended when I cut all it’s flowers off.?? I just put that together, maybe that’s it!!

My pink Dragon just put our a new leaf with no loss and another one is starting on it already and we're not even finished the full unfurl. My Zebrina is new and isn't doing anything yet which I consider good. It came with three leaves. But, my Polly (Amazonica mask) has put out one leaf and lost two... I think she's getting ready for a new leaf as well but it's interesting when they all live next to each other under the same lamp 🤣

Wonderful video. What are the pouches hanging from them?

Where do you find this kind of plant

Would pumice work?

Great video, my alocasia give me one leaf, and another one is yellow, also the leaves don't grow. The yellow leave is about two inches long, and the new leave is one inch. Also, I noticed they don't change their color; they are still green. Help! What do you think I am doing wrong?

Have you tried putting your Alocasias in pon with semi hydro? I have about 15 plants and many corms growing. I keep my humidity at 65/70% humidity, all are doing fantastic. They really seem to love this growing medium.

The teeny baby corms will grow? Wouldn’t they need to finish developing before throwing any leaves out?

Will pumice act the same as perlite? Just potted my silver dragon in straight pumice.

5:02 where did you get those grow lights??? I’ve been looking for good ones forever!!

So wait... about what you said about the moss 21:38: when the "thin layer" of moss is dry, that means that enough substrat underneath is dry too? Meaning that when just a bit of substrat is dry, the moss is still wet? I'm asking because the layer of moss seems like it would make it more difficult to really know the need of water, opposite to when you can just stick your finger in the substrat. And if substrat and moss don't dry at the same pace, that could even give flase information, no? It's a real newbie question and I never used moss anyway.

What are the tag like things hanging on the stems

Just curious how long some of your plants have been growing in the perlite?

What grow lights do you have??

I thought that halo had been reclassified as a caladium? what do you think?

I like to cut plant leaves and leave the petioles they always fall off it's an old bonsai technique.

Question! Do you fertilize these in winter???

Hello fellow Hilo Beauty owner!! I feel like I don't often find others who own this plant 🤣 Interesting that yours is currently the only one thats in dormancy- hmm (hoping mine doesn't hehe)

What would it mean if my Silver Dragon is showing some guttation? I've not had it but a few days. I checked its soil when I got it home and it was dry on top, very slightly moist halfway down and moist at the bottom. I watered it lightly. And within a day or two it started "weeping".

When they go dormant can that be anytime of the year ?

How large to they grow?

How long can they go dormant for?

💚🌿

Hilo Beauty is a Colocasia, not an Alocasia. Their leaves are so much thinner and more delicate and I've had a really hard time ridding them of spider mites, even in very clean and humid conditions

They are corms😊

Do you ever bottom water

How do you water a black velvet’s leaves without molding and rotting the leaf?

Am starting to hate alocasias . I get one leaf and lose 3 . 😢

Some of those are colocasia, a different genus of plants.

No.not really.alocasia rarely goes Dormant like caladium.based on my observation because i have also alocasia that grows without being dormant.

Thank you for informative alocasia video… now I know Not to buy these! Lol…..too much work for too little reward.

You have like 500 Alocasia but you "dont know how these rhizome bulbs are called?“ 😂

I believe Dormancy is connected to acclimation and watering. After losing a huge variegated Freuden due to it not being acclimated although pushing out leaves and pups the variegation was irregular. After removing the pups the Mother plant died. I personally have no success with soil so I’ve transferred all 10 Alocasia to semi hydro Lecha and they love it. Also it takes the guesswork out of watering. It’s truly made the hobby less than a chore.

I purchased one and now they are turning yellow. Do I cut the leaves? I think I may have let it go too long without water so I will be watering it more. What about putting them outside in shade?