I loved this! How timely! I got a broken-off, rootless Alocasia stem with 2 leaves, for free, from a large hardware store 2 or 3 weeks ago. It looked like someone had put it in their cart and knocked if off the pot, or maybe they tried to lift the plant out of the display tray and snapped it. I looked for signs of root rot but the bottom was not mushy and the leaves looked firm, so I asked if I could have it. The cashier looked at the stump, shrugged, and said, "Fine by me! Good luck with it." I brought it home, stuck the base in rooting hormone, and put it in damp pon. I checked it yesterday and it has 1 healthy looking root, 2 nubs that might be the beginning of more roots, and the 2 leaves it came home with are still on! I'm very hopeful that it'll survive. It was not labeled, but it looks like the Amazonica ("Polly") I already had so I believe that's what it is. I didn't use heat or covered it with a humidity dome, but I have it in my warmest bedroom, in front of an east-facing window, surrounded by many other plants, and with a humidifier nearby. Thank you for showing the progress of your experiment over the course of a few months. It is very, VERY helpful when content creators do that, especially when they share what worked and what didn't. I've seen other videos on which you've shown similar updates, so in appreciation of the extra time and effort compiling such a presentation takes, I subscribed a minute ago. Thank you!

I planted some corms from my alocasia Amazonica in a prop tray months ago and completely forgot to continue checking them, check led in after watching this video to find they have rooted really strongly in to the soil and 4 have sprouted. So pleased and surprised.

I think the air layering didn’t work because the soil dried out too quickly. I use sphagnum moss and keep it damp and mix in some horticultural charcoal to help protect the roots from rot.

I also deconstructed my Frydek. I took corms, stem cuttings a couple top cuts and 2 rhizomes. So far have lost the stem cuttings and one corm to rot but everything else is still alive . So far... 2 of my corms each have one leaf and one is working on its second leaf. It's fun!

Thanx for posting! Your videos are very informative so please keep going!

The soil mix may have been to chunky for the frydek to hold onto moisture long enough for the plant to use it before it dried out. I have had my silver dragon in an orchid pot with perelite in 2 10 gallon aquariums top to top to make a terrarium 😅 ever since i saw your video on straight perelite i tried it because the leaves were starting to get brown tips, since then it pushed out a new leafe and I propagated 2 corms in perelite and sphag moss in a little grey yogurt container lol I'm very jealous of your coopria. Great video very informative i learn so much watching you, thank you for making videos.

🤯WOW! Alot happens in your house in a month,then 8 days!!!! Cuprea leaves are just so beautiful! 😍🤩 Thank you for this video!!!💖💓

I literally just found rot in my imported Jacklyn a few hours ago. This was helpful thank you. I didn't know you could cut the stem like that.

Thank you for this very interesting and informative video. Bought a dragon scale a few months ago from Walmart, it promptly died from root rot. But I kept it in hopes it might come back, your video reminded me to pull it out to check the roots and search for corms, no hope for main plant but got several corms. Hauled out my heat mat and planted them in a small orchid pot, hopefully in a few weeks some will root. Love your videos.

Such an interesting process! Thank you for showing it to us

So glad you did these experiments as I was going to try them myself. Thank you for all you do and sharing them with us!

Thank you for this most informative video. I'm new to these plants and just acquired 3 of these at a very low price from a supermarket here in Victoria Australia. I've relocated from a much warmer place in Queensland and finding the range of plants in this colder climate very new and interesting. I have sadly left many beautiful tropical specimens behind. So am grateful for what I'm discovering here. I've been searching the internet for info on how to care for these plants. Your videos have the most detailed info compared to many others. I now hope to successfully grow these beautiful plants thanks to you. ❤

Cool experiment. Very interesting too see. I bought a small Alocasia Pink Dragon, which had spidermites and very small roots. I removed all soil, showered it, treated for spidermites and put it into a glass of water. In two weeks, we have new roots :-) Didn´t rotted, but is growing a new leaf and importantly new roots. I´m planning to put it in semi-hydro pon very soon (once the roots are sufficient). I tested the same thing on small calatheas before and worked well - in two weeks everone has new roots on the way and no rot issues (I change the water 2x a week). In 4 weeks most of them are ready for semi-hydro.

I love your videos! so informative!

Cool video thank you Jeff

Thank you this was very helpful I am new plant mom thanks for all great advice ❤️

This is a good channel with helpfull tips.

Love your setup. Very pleasing and some great specimens

Great video. I learned a lot. Thanks

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Så smart ..har Micholiziana med lång stam...ska också testa med samma metod.

Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection

Thank you for this!!! I've been trying to figure out for the past 2 years if I can cut my alocasia amazonica stem, but this is the first time I've seen an example of exactly what I was hoping for! My stem is 8in long at this point! 😆

Very interesting video. You’re a plant scientist! 😃🪴

Thank you for this video. Is it possible to plant the stem deeper in the soil during repotting? My plant has grown quite tall, reaching about 8 feet, and I'd like to repot it without going through the propagation process. Any advice would be appreciated! I have an Alocasia Sumo

Very interesting experiment! Also, a little nerve wrecking or frustrating when the plants don't do what you want them to do! Looking forward to updates!🌱🌱

Great experiment! You lost one, but you still have a rooted one…it would have died from root rot if you had not done the cut. The cuprea did great; it has stunning leaves. Thanks for sharing Jeff!

Also I think it was the pot you put the frydek in. I’ve noticed if a plant has recently died or struggled in a pot and you don’t sanitize the pot and give it a break, the next plant you put there will die/rot too.

Very interesting. I have an aglo stump that's not doing anything, so I am going to take mine out to see what's up below. Lol, you know what I mean... great video, Jeff

Thank you Jeff for this learnfull video. I have a really sad Alocasia captain black magic. And after seeing your video I feel confident enough to give this method a shot.😊

Thanks for the great video! I wish so much that I could post you a picture! 3 or 4 weeks ago, maybe longer…….I had my Frydek in dirt, I guess it was in dormancy. Anyway, It looked just like the one on the right side of your video, except no green coming out of the top at all, and a few scraggly roots. So I decided to put it halfway in a glass of water, and back to the sunroom it went. It now has several different green things growing out of it everywhere and it looks ready to plant but nothing coming out of the very top. So today I scraped the top part off (it was kinda mushy) and back halfway in the water it is. I think if you saw it you would be surprised. Sorry I don’t know the terms for all the “green things”, even after watching your video twice. I’ve come this far, hate to kill it now or get rid of it…….it is so interesting, but not sure what to do…..sorry this is probably a goofy post😂but you seem to really know what your doing. Thanks for any suggestions…

I’ve never air layered before thanks for the info. Is that a silver blush to your right? It’s beautiful.

I’m currently working on some Alocasia corms that I’m doing in stratum and pearlite. It’s been 3 weeks no roots yet but the growth points look swollen.

I love Alocasia but I suck at taking care of them in soil. All of my Alocasia is in Leca and the rest of my other plants are in soil. I have lots of croms, 14 in total, 2 have roots, 1 baby with 2 stems.

I love how often your pencil appears in your videos, haha. Very handy!

Nice showing

I think you still had Frydek corms in that pot. What you pulled out used to be connected to the bottom cutting 😳

Judging by the rate of growth on that Alocasia stem in the water maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to grow it in semi or straight hydro.

Interesting video. I’ve ‘almost’ lost my Polly due to spider mite (I think). It had all the signs so I was pleased to find some corms and took the main plant out of the soil and cleaned the one last leaf before transferring to leca. The leaf eventually died and the corms are sitting in perlite but nothing has happened yet. It’s been at least 4 weeks so I’m thinking I should peel them then move them under a grow light. I have never done this before so please let me know if I’m doing something wrong. Thanks for sharing all the steps of recovering some growth on your Alocasias.

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Root rot bacteria in the soil?

Interesting plant project. Jeff. I'm halfway thru the video. Glad you found out why the alocasia frydek. Declined. The alocasia cuprea. Is gorgeous. Nice video showing the growth progress. Have a great rest of your weekend.maybe the frydek,should go in straight perlite. What do you think?

this video was great! has anyone said you look like joe lo truglio :)

Do you have a link for your scissors?

I tried this once and the top took off in Leca! The stump never did anything and eventually rotted. I did it with a silver dragon

Would this work with a monstera deliciosa node? (Water on heatmat prop or air layer prop)?🤔

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This was really interesting. Thank you for keeping track of your results and putting it together for us! I hate a gangly long stem on an alocasia so I will stay tuned for your stump update, hopefully. Now I know I can cut it rather than getting deeper and deeper pots lol

What do you use clean and shine your Alocasia leaves

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Soil propagating Alocasia never works for me.

OMG - thanks for potentially sacrificing your gorgeous Cuprea for this video! Great and HELPFUL experiment. 💚👏🏽🪴👏🏽💚