Growing Elephant Ears Indoors

'Black Magic' creates a striking look in partial shade, with purple-black leaves that appear velvety from a distance. Gardeners love this exotic favorite as a screen or as a background for smaller plants and flowers.

Gardeners love this exotic favorite as a screen or as a background for smaller plants and flowers. Always a highlight in any garden, and very easy to grow and care for. Needs full sun to come to size in cool climates, but tolerates part-shade farther...

Always a highlight in any garden, and very easy to grow and care for. Gardeners love this exotic favorite as a screen or as a background for smaller plants and flowers. When the bulb is planted in good soil, the leaves can reach 4 or even 5 feet across.

'Portora' Elephant Ear delivers huge, upward-facing foliage that grows to be 72-96” tall. Always a highlight in any garden, and very easy to grow and care for. Planted in the garden or in containers, this upright variety's deep leaf ribs and thick stem...

Without support, the broad leaves have a tendency to droop and cover lower growing plants.They also replace the old leaves as the plant matures. The rapid and impressive elephant ear growth rate is easy to control if you pot up the corms.

Any small bit of tuber left in the soil can quickly become another mass of elephant ears. Be sure to wear gloves; not only can herbicides cause nasty chemical burns, but people have reported skin irritations from handling elephant ear tubers.Dig down...

Once plants are infected, it is too late to save them. Avoid overhead watering to prevent consistently wet leaves.To prevent Pythium rot, use good sanitation practices and use pure irrigation water.

It is okay if some dirt is still on the bulb. Make sure that the area has good air circulation so that the bulbs dry properly.After this, keep elephant ear bulbs wrapped in paper and in a cool dry place.

The tubers can be placed directly outdoors once the threat of frost or freezing temperatures have ceased in your area. During dry spells, you may want to water plants regularly, especially those growing in containers.

Each of the different elephant ear plants has a slightly different cultivation range regarding water. Bring the smaller forms, such as most Alocasia, indoors in winter to grow until temperatures warm.

For in-ground plants, dig carefully around the root zone and gently lift the entire plant out of the soil.Place it on a tarp and remove the excess soil to expose your work site. Move potted pups to a sunny location indoors and keep them moderately wet.When...

They need to have plenty of water and any plant that is allowed to dry out will shoe displeasure with dry, crinkling leaf edges.Leaf browning on elephant ears also occurs when the plant is starving and hasn't been fed.

Colors of the foliage may be anywhere from purplish black, green or green/white variegated.These impressive ornamental specimens grow outside in sheltered location inis a swamp plant that develops a hardy root system under the water.

The whole process takes about 200 days from planting corms to harvest.To harvest the corms (tubers), lift them gently from the soil with a garden fork just before the first frost in the fall.

They can be roasted, fried, boiled, and sliced, mashed or grated.The mature leaves can be eaten as well, but they need to be cooked in a specific manner to remove the oxalic acid they contain.

However, not all Jewel Alocasias are so diminutive! Read on to learn about this Giant of the Jewels . Most of the Alocasia species that I consider to be "jewels" are small growers suitable for a windowsill or small conservatory.

Well, not exactly. I, too, have experienced this, and more than once. Alas, I then found that a nice Robusta is like gourmet food to red spider mites, and that just a little cool weather can flatten out an otherwise healthy Robusta.

Most EE fanciers are familiar with at least one of these, and may have one or more in their collections or gardens. All in all, you are sure to find a large Ear for your tropical corner or garden in this group.

As such, these are not stressed by moist soil around the roots, or frequent watering such as is found in rain forests.Just for fun, I've included here a photo of a real "elephant ear" (see photo below) so once and for all everyone can see what, if any,...

For additional information about this hybrid, click on This plant was the result of one of my earliest hybridizations with Alocasia plants. I still have a couple of the Portora Green types, which tend to grow larger and beefier than the others.

Here I'll showcase Colocasia and Xanthosoma and help dispel some of the confusion generated by naming plants from three completely different genera as "elephant ears". So you should not assume that the specimen you obtained in a swap is one of the edible...

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The plants mentioned above all benefit from cutting back the foliage when it begins to yellow in fall.Tips for Digging, Treatment, and Storage of Dormant TubersFor those mentioned above, be sure to wait on digging until the first hard frost blackens or...

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