How To Overwinter Your Elephant Ear Plants ( Colocasia esculenta )
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- How To Overwinter Your Elephant Ear Plants ( Colocasia esculenta ) in this video I will show you how simple it is to prepare your elephant ear tubers for next spring. This is an easy method that lets you keep your plants till next spring with zero fuss. I like this method because it uses very little space!
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had a problem with my alocasia frydek. it was a spider mite infestation and i thought it was gonna die on me. this is also what I did to the tuber to save it. cut all the leaves (they were all infected), then had to scrub the tuber clean (the roots were starting to rot when I pulled it up from the soil) and then air dried the tuber for more or less 24 hours. I then potted the tuber in new soil and now more than 3 weeks after, it's about to unfurl its first leaf. still can't believe a restart worked.
by the way, have seen most of your videos. love your how you do your experiments.
hey thanks for sharing that story, it will be helpful to others aswell! mine last year got attacked by spider mites aswell, its crazy how strong and resilient some plants cant be!
OOOh! thank you, I was looking for videos to see if resetting a plant worked since I have a spider mite infestation as well. I hope it works for me too!
Great information video,
Thank you 🇺🇸
Can’t wait to see the regrowth in the spring!
same here!
You can definitely eat them. They're grown as a food plant all over the tropics and they are delicious and full of good nutrition. In some areas, they even eat the leaves. Think of them as a tropical potato!
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Thank you so much! Appreciate the kind words, thanks for watching!
Thankyou for a very well put together and knowledgeable video and with out the unnecessary waffle a lot of other presenters do . Excellent info . Thankyou. So much .
Yes we can eat it ...we in our state Odisha use it like potato . Make curry n many dishes from it
Oh nice!
A fellow Wisconsin friend!!!
I appreciate this video, thank you!
You bet! I hope you have prepped for indoor growing as winter approaches lol
I love the variety of plants we're shown. 🥰
im trying! as i gain new space in the future i will expand the collection!
Thanks! This came at the perfect time! I was just wondering what I was going to do with mine to save it!
awesome! good luck!
Thanks
Thanks for watching
I am a first time grower for this plant. This was very helpful. I am ready to put them (2) plants in a temporary pot.
Best of luck!
Great video, you're very concise.
I would also cover tuber with some cinnamon, as an extra measure against rotting.
smart!
Thanx for posting. Also here in WI, and although they are still making new leaves, the cooler temps have made the older leaves yellow on many of mine. I do like to cut them down to about 6 inches before the 1st frost though, because once they are hit by it (and even though the roots are not bothered by the early frosts) they get slimy after it hits the leaves.
Thanks for sharing! yeah when they get slimy its gross lol
Thanks a lot. Simple and right to the point. Need this right now.Please show how you store wrapped away in box. Do you leave the box open. When do you remove to plant in spring. Thanks again. You’re a big help.
I just left them in a box. IF you start indoors you can get it going early otherwise i wouldnt start it until the last frost
Amazing video! Definitely keep us updated on regrowing this and even those babies you’re potting you indoors!
Short sweet and informative! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Can you please share your knowledge about how and when to repot this and how to water it once it is repotted to stimulate growth? Thanks!!
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge! Will keep watching your videos.
Thanks for watching!
I swear everytime I find a new cool plant thing I’m interested in learning about you did a video on it. Thank you for always being one step ahead of me. 🫣😘
Thanks for showing this method.😊
Thanks for the great videos
Thanks for watching
There is a green variety of calocasia esculanta which is edible. The tuber (Edoe) and leaves are eaten in south Asian cuisine.
Thank you 😊
You're welcome 😊
I'm trying to save my Colocasia Esculenta right now. Tonight after work.. It's so late to try and overwinter it but I'm still going to do it I think, the main tuber is definitely not doing well but it does have three babies growing off of the main since that main one has gotten sad. Im hoping I can save at least one and gradually bring it back to full health. Im new and took on a lot!
good luck I hope you can!
Thank you for the great information I really appreciate it
please do more videos on this plant i can’t find anything about this plant and i recently bought one and it’s a baby and it’s already drying out, it lives indoors😩
Thank you! I've only ever kept my alocasias and colocasias planted in their pots over the winter and they always end up looking super unhappy and die back to 1 or 2 leaves.
if you wanna keep em alive indoors youll most likely need to get some good strong grow lights
Love this video! Short and to
The point! 🤩
Glad you liked it!!
You don’t need to cut off all of the stem until the tuber. Just put some cinnamon on the greenery and let it dry.
Interesting, Ill try that next time, thanks for sharing!
This method actually looks to be the way that I bought the tuber, and the only other thing was a little protective sleeve that was also placed around the tumor when it was sold. I saved it and I’m going to try and use it again. Your detailed description as well as video is extremely helpful and how to get it to look the same as what I had bought at the store.
Thank you for sharing brilliant tips! Really helpful 💕it gives positive energy!!good vibes to you😊happy gardening hugs from Japan!
Great vid. very helpful👍
Thanks for that.🙂
Thank you for the info!
Lovely video
Thanks
Thanks for watching!
@@TechplantChannel you're welcome
Thanks for sharing
WHOA black ones!!!!! agghhhhhh yay!!!! Thank you!!
Great job!
Cool, thanks for this! You make great content!
Thanks for watching!
you can eat it, it esculenta, in southeast asia, especially in Malaysia, Indonesia to Hawaii or Austronesian world, we eat all part of it. except leave/frond
Hello 👋 born and raised here in WI!
awesome! Thanks for watching and stay warm!
I just took mine inside to have as a house plant.
nice! i dont have any space sadly or i would have done the same
You can eat Colocasia esculanta (green variety) roots and leaves. There are many south asian and south east asian recipes. I really like soupy curry of leaves and even fraters made with leaves called aluchi vadi.
I wonder if this will work with all alocasias and colocasias... it sure would make winter maintenance a lot easier
Id be more cautious with the rare more uncommon ones
The tuber/bulb is a staple food crop in the Pacific were it's called Taro. I'm not sure about which varieties are edible or not, but your tuber is tiny compared to the ones I've seen at markets. I'm pretty sure that traditionally it's grown in very hot semi-swampy conditions. I'm in the South Pacific so it doesn't grow very well here.
If you do this year after year do you end up with a large Bulb/Tuber?
yes, as long as it gets good strong growth every year it should keep compounding
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hi
I was hoping to keep it year round indoors.
i grow mine indoors, and its pretty happy!
you can! if you have a good spot to put it in, mine got pretty big and i didnt have much space so this was an easy way to preserve it
@@art3mis880 I keep mine indoors but it went dormant during winter. What winter temperatures do you have? Do you still have to overwinter yours that you keep indoors?
You can eat this in portugal we call inhame
Nice, I see them at the korean grocery store i go to as well. how do you cook them?
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Ill take a look!
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no but i grew my lemon trees under it and they grew very fast, Ive grown a lot under it. never anything super demanding though but it was a very nice light. I have a spider farmer fs1000 now im testing and it feels promising
Thank you so much 😊
1 question
Can I keep it in the refrigerator
ive never done that, might be a bit too chilly for it
Very informative one. I just got my Alocasia Amazonica (which I think is very healthy and pushing out their new leaves that so robust) repotted but when I pulled them from the old soil their roots are kinda rotted I don't know if it came from how dense of the soil or maybe the chemical injection of the spider mites control I used. But I ended up with cleaning the bulb and pulled the rotting part of the root and some dead area of the bulb and then I left their leaves on and just planted them into my new well draining potting mix. BTW I live in Thailand, I am now not sure if it's the right way to save them or not. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you
Do you know about what temperature they start to do this?
No, but i do know it was hitting low 40s the past week
will i only have to overwinter the elephant ear plant if i live in a place where it snows or is rain also an issue?
thanks for another awesome video!
nope, if it doesnt get too cold you can just leave it out!
@@TechplantChannel ah alright!
Hi tech plants
Got myself a colocasia Metallica, which I have had for the past four weeks now and it's growing like mad in my window of my flat, constantly being looking through CZcams to try and find cultivation of my plant.
Is it me but I can't seem to find any information on the plant I have!
Can you help?
Sooo.....the elephant ears i have in pots outside can't just come inside as is? Or doni need to do this
they can if you can fit them in your house, just remember to really slow down on your watering because they wont be getting nearly as much light so they wont be drinking as much water
I got the same plant n the leaves are getting smaller n smaller. Is it going dormancy or i overwater them? I live in asia..no winter
interesting, maybe it needs some fertilizer?
Can I replant the tubers now in my grow tent and expect to see growth or is it best to wait till spring? I’m in zone 6A and the grow tent is typically 70 degrees, 65-70 percent humidity, using 1000 Mars Hydro grow lights.
you should be able to plant them and get em going whenever.
I have the green ones.
nice!
I would rather use a potting medium that is less cohesive and crumbles very easily when I unpot it and prepare it for dormancy. From my experience with Alocasias, ( and maybe colocasias do the same), the main tuber sends off new tuber shoots which later develop into new plants that can be divided in the growth season. My experience is that these offshoots, if broken prematurely, cannot survive the dormant period and will shrivel in a week or two. At first they look like tiny tubers attached to the mother plant with a thinner runner, and I do my best to keep them attached at this stage. When the soil is not cohesive, the soil crumbles and leaves those offshoots intact and attached to the mother plant. I do my best to keep them attached throughout the dormancy stage.
Would you have to do this with an alocasia lauterbachiana as well? I just got half from my sister and the plant is looking very sad and I’m afraid it will die.
you dont have too, if you have space you can just grow them indoors and supplement with a strong grow light
I thought I was the only one with a black magic dying!! But Now I see that it is because of the cold mmm 🤔 ¿this is the only way to Keep it alive? Or I can have it indoors? 😢
you can bring it indoors, but if it went limp like mine, cut away all the dead growth, you can leave it potted
Is this also applicable for alocasia/colocasias that I keep as indoor plants?
ive only ever done it with this plant, but they are related and i have read other people have done it. but Ive never done it with my own hands so who knows
Mine is very small and it hasn't developed a tuber. The leaves all died. Is it still able to overwinter?
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How do you replant them in the spring? Do you have a video about this? It's getting warmer...so its time to wake mine up!
sadly i wrapped mine in newspaper and they got thrown out when i moved, but you can just plant them an inch or two under the soil and grow them like you would a seed. give them some water and wait for them to wake up
Don’t try to start them outside in any colder weather, consider starting it indoors, so that the temperatures wake it up before you put it outside. I live in zone 6a , and I put it outside in June after starting it inside about a month before
I did this with my bare hands and I got a nasty stinging nettle-like reaction 😢
Oh wow interesting, it could be an allergy, or (i forget the name) but there is something present in many tropical plants that can be an irritant. I think the bulbs shouldnt have it tho becasue people eat them
Hey sug wanna move to zone 8 and grow some sweets
I have an elephant ear that has started dropping, but it's kept indoors. Is it best to cut the leaves off and try to save the tuber? The temps haven't dropped much here but he's definitely not having a good time.
With cold they stop growing, but it shouldn't lose the leaves. Check carefully that is not overwatered or attacked by spider mites (quite common, look below leaves for small points )
I hv colocasia
nice!
I hv elephant ear plants magnificum
awesome!
they are safe if there is no snow.
sadly where i live we get tons of snow....
Update?
why you have to remove the plant from the pot? You could just take the pot indoors
Not to get too technical but it is a corm, not a tuber or bulb.
I think it's actually a corm.
Do you have an outdoor garden too? I hear the Wisconsin is peony heaven
yeah, we have two peony bushes, some years it gets a crazy amount of blooms but this year they didnt do that well!
@@TechplantChannel assuming they are either Itoh or herbaceous peonies, when you cut the foliage back in late fall, make sure the eyes are not more than 2” below soil level and mix in some bonemeal. I wouldn’t mulch anywhere near the crown as that could make the root soggy. Established peonies are extremely drought and frost tolerant and do all their root growth in colder months.
You can eat nearly All varieties of Elephant ears.
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aw late
youtube is glitching out, this was supposed to go live this morning
@@TechplantChannel I guess that's good cause I have virtual classes?