ALOCASIA POLLY PLANT CARE | dormancy, propagation + more! | alocasia amazonica
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- alocasia polly vs alocasia amazonica? dormancy? alocasia polly bulbs? i got you covered!!
here is everything i know about alocasia polly plant care ✨
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As for differences between Amazonica and Poly (one L because the namers thought it was a polyploid), they are pretty significant. For one thing, you'll never find an Amazonica in the US. It was discontinued by the TC company, Agristarts, about 20 years ago when Denis Rotolante's discovery of Poly made it obsolete. Amazonica is much more difficult to cultivate; it holds far fewer leaves, it's leaves are smooth, while Poly's are consistently gnarly. Poly stood out because it holds many more leaves than Amazonica, making it a more appealingly dense foliage plant. Poly is much smaller than the mature potential of Amazonica -- in some cases, about half the size. I wish they'd let us post photos here, but you can messge me on fb if you want more details or other information on the large and ever-growing family of cultivars that have developed from the TC production of Amazonica.
@@slowquist Great info, thank you!
Really what does plants have to do with blm I mean really not being rude but why.
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@@jjbentley9 that’s what I’m trying to figure out I’m African American, I’m just doing plant research. I’m black & dont gaf about BLM it’s a darn scam 🤷🏽♀️
After having a Silver Dragon Scale for about 10 months, I realized alocasia thrives in my household and that I am able to make them happy! So yesterday, I bought myself an Alocasia Polly. Thanks for the care information!
I love the fact that you actually said what number you let it dry out to on the moisture reader. That definitely helps a new plant mom like me! Thank you!
Gotta add my personal experiece here: you can avoid the winter dormancy entirely if you keep temperature/humidity at relatively tropical levels, and move it to a window with more light (but be sure to move it back in the summer, as you stated it burns the leaves)
I just bought my first Poly. I'm a sucker for this deep green color! Definitely a dust collector, but it's so gorgeous I don't mind. What I learned already, after a week is it really does need that humidity you spoke of. I wanted to keep it in my bedroom, but had to move it to the plant room. Thank you for all the tips, I know they will come in handy!!
“Fantastic dust collectors” is spot on! 😂 Thanks for the tips on propagating these babies.
😂i never lie to y'all!
i literally just cleaned my leaves before watching this :)
That was fantastic. Thank you! A collection of so much valuable information all in one video - far more than I've come across elsewhere. Great energy.
I purchased one today and this is a gorgeous plant.
I recently got some alocacias and your video was really helpful, it’s well organized and informative. Thank you for putting it together.
your editing is great, got a couple of chuckles out of me. just picked one up today, thank you!
Thank you. This is the best alocasia Polly care I've watched thanks again
This is the first video of yours I’ve watched. Lots of concise information! I’m subscribing. :)
thank you so much!!!! welcome :)
every time i have a question about a specific plants care i cone to your tube, search it up, and voila! your videos always come up and help 😭
Great video! Thanks for all the knowledge! I didn't know about the dormancy!
Cheryl L. G. Thank you 💚 I didn’t know at first either!
Very helpful I purchased my son a alocasia 5 days ago and it had about 8 leaves but 3 were slumped when I purchased. I was about to cut one I’m glad I didn’t. I grow plants but this one was lovely and just seems so unisex I wanted something that looked strong in his space when he comes from college to visit. So you’ve given me a few tips and I’m grateful 😇
Your plants look so healthy!
thank you! they definitely don't look so lush right now since it's winter for me haha
Thank you so much I really really enjoyed listening to you about the Alocasia Polly, I’ve just brought one, and I’m going to try to make it work. I’ve got a few plants so I’m hoping this one will be fine.
Dormancy is not normal for these in the wild. It's just an emergency crash measure to deal with cool temps. There is no benefit or reason to let them go dormant, but if you can't keep them up around almost 70F (minimum at night), then they will very slowly start going towards dormant. It can take many months, and some people don't see them dormant except in Spring, when they finally succumb the culmination of the long winter fighting low temps. They prefer it very hot. 90's F are wonderful for these if you can keep them watered, but they do ok in the 70's as well. You can wake them up from dormancy almost instantly (2-3 weeks) with a heat mat (careful to not let them dry out too much). They will also grow faster with several hours a day of direct sunlight, if it's not at midday. Rinsing the leaves at every other watering eliminates spider mites. Higher humidity is not needed at all. PS: I"ve been growing Alocasia for over 30 years :)
I just got one of these, it was on clearance, and I think I made a mistake lol I live in Montana. Always up for a challenge with a plant tho. Thanks for the information!
Good and planty is such a great name 😊
This is one of the most informative videos on a plant that I've ever watched. Broken down well, and so easy to understand. Thank you so much.
so nice of you! thank you SO much!
I just got an alocasia polly! thanks for the tips
omg 🥳 they are so beautiful! enjoy!
Love these informative videos!
yay! thank you i appreciate that 💚
That looks so lovely Alocasia.
thank you!🥰
Wow. REALLY informative video!! Thank you so much for being so straight up and to the point. Loved it!!
They’re so pretty I want one 🥺
Plant Mama Tatiana Do it! It’s made me want to start looking into more alocasia varieties 🤩
Okay but like the Alocasia Polly is the most perfect ooky spooky plant for fall please @ me I am ready to defend this point to my grave
Amanda Brunner I agree with this point 🤷🏻♀️
Polly for some reason reminds me of dragons and game of thrones. There's some long boi philodendrons out there that look like something straight out of Tim Burton's imagination and those evoke feelings of spooky season for me.
Sam Cook all of my Alocasia are named after literary dragons and members of the Addams family it’s such a mood
See I'm the kind of person to wear black in the summer and neon pink in the winter. I really think this is an all year beautiful plant. Same with all plants really. I love my bird of paradise in the winter and my bonsai evergreen in the summer 🤷🏼♀️
@@kim_bucha I was going to name it _DragonSlayer3000_ as a gag right. Named it Polly Pocket instead
I’m planning to get one soon! 😍
You should! They are great! Depending on where you live, it might go dormant soon though.
whoa i just needed this video. Glad to see it!!! I so wanted to get one but always intimidated but thank you sooooo much!!!
Thanks, It sounds like very helpful information.
My alocasia polly is in the brink of death😭. There’s been some construction happening at my house so my plants have been moved around quite a bit that is why I have not been able to really care for them. Hopefully the tips I picked up from your video will help my plant babies.
just get my first polly its so sweet hope it don,t dies
Never been this early 😂 love these! Keep it up
rise and shine 🌞 thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing. I viewed your video months ago and forgot to leave a comment. I did remember to give you a thumbs up. BTW I propergated the corms in Perlite as well as in mosd and they both worked. Yay me considerimg the Morher plant went totally dorment and I thought she kicked the bucket.🤣😂
I have found that using a pebble tray for this plant helps maintain the humidity it likes.
I was wondering if that would work. Thank you!
Cool you have a moisture meter, I need to get one! Love your alocasias 💚
It is soooo helpful! I would’ve killed so many plants without one lol
Very helpful, great video!
Thank you for your hard work and for sharing it with the world! Curious now if that little bulb of yours took off eventually :) Please share if it did. Just got my first Alocasia Polly today. As they arrived at our Superstore, the price was 24 (CAD), I was like I'll wait.. It's been about a couple of months I think, and today we just came in super early in the morning and she was there alone, I suspect she was the last one to go, and they reduced the price to 5 backs. She's mine now :) Hope she'll survive cause it was +5 outside and we carried her walking for about 20 minutes. Hope it wasn't long enough.
Yay love the tips on dormancy and propagation! Any chance we'll get a philodendron care/your personal collection video? 👀
thank you shelby!! definitely want to do philodendron 🤩
Thanks lovey video learnt alot
Lovely video ❤️
Thank you for the helpful video! I am a newer plant momma. Wondering if I can mist for humidity? I've read different things.
So far so good very helpful but I’d like to know if I can put the allocation poly in the ground for this summer
Thank you so much for this video. Tried and failed twice with pollys. Yours are both so beautiful!
Thank you so much! I hope if you try again you'll finally find success with these beauties 🤞
Nice video, very informative. Happy plant lover and newbie here, will support you.
welcome to the channel! thank you so much💚
@@GoodandPlanty hope ma support mo din ako thanks and God bless
What do you use to clean them? They look so nice and shiny.
Thank you for this video. So helpful. Also, the music is great. My sweetie's dog took out a bit of feels on my A. polly and I'm still trying to recover her. Hoping that eventually she will look as lovely as yours do. Thanks again!
thank you for the kind words! good luck with your alocasia 💖
Two years ago I had an A. 'Frydek' and didn't know anything about them and freaked out when all the leaves fell off in winter. I also didn't know about bulbs regrowing so I threw it out 😭Now I have two alocasias and praying they do well in the winter 🤞🏼
i feel like that happens to a lot of people!! that’s why i wanted to put the video out right as fall started lol. i’m sure your alocasia will do just fine this winter 💚
Wait… so… is it normal to lose leaves in winter or a sign of care issues?
@@ShockerThere11 Mine lost literally ALL of its leaves during the winter. It was heartbreaking and I thought I lost her but now she's pushing out new growth like crazy so they come back.
Can we keep it under a grow light during the winter ? Or does it go dormant
Just found a beautiful alocasia polly at Home Depot for $20... 2 healthy leaves... I almost dropped to the floor... I couldn’t believe my eyes. She’s in quarantine and she’s getting a good neem oil spray soon!! Thanks for the tips! This is my most advanced house plant to date, I usually stick with the easy basic stuff like all the pothos/philodendron’s, all kinds of different jade, zz’s, snake plants, etc... but I’m ready to explore something I’m not so familiar with and learn more... and hopefully keep her alive in the process!
You did damn good girl!
thank you!🌿
I've been gardening for 2 decades. Subtropical plants, edibles carnivorous plants. Of of each )Nepenthes) is 3 meters in Length. I have great success with my growth and feel like i have mastered it a bit. But never grew indoor plants. I bought one Amazonica Polly. Fell in love with its Tim Burtonesque looks. Not much luck.. This plant i totally destroying my green thumb. The plants are whithering down. I reppotted them into a perlite+sphagnum moss+pine bark mix and into a larger pot. In one of the plant all the leaves whimpered down. So sad...I bought 3 more, and havent watered them whatsoever. Fingers crossed. I am really in love with this plant. and that purple maze in the back!...
Perfect video for what i was looking for. An experienced, well displayed grow guide for this specific plant. And with 60s letters?! Come on!... Perfect. Thank you.
Don’t feel bad, I’m a plant seller and I offer these often..I’ve never had a good experience with them indoors only in a greenhouse environment not saying they can’t be inside but for me it’s a no 😂
How are they going now?! I'm feeling very discouraged as I love this plant and mine is also not thriving! Would love to hear of your progress after not watering!
When the go dormant do you cut them off or keep them
Could you do a Micans care video? 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Christian H Love that idea!! I’ll put that in my video idea list 😌
"Sun soakage" I'm using that from now on! 😆
new to your channel. thanks for the alocasia tips. new to the plant collection. also, i bought a ficus tree and i'm having some problems with it. lots of perceived problems. not sure what is natural and what needs help. any tips?
I just a Polly, she is so beautiful I am obsessed
How are the bulbs doing? Would love a video about that!
my alocasia are doing well so far! plenty of foliage, so i have not touched the bulbs. i have a different video where i do dig up and store caladium + oxalis bulbs 😊
Help help help needed! My alocasia disconnected from it's corm,root system. 4 lovely,spotless leaves but the bottom apears rotted, don't know how. I only watered it twice, had it only a month... how in the heck did i overwater? No idea. But now I have the corm, on one side still looking firm and ok, and the branch system apart from it,but maybe I can save them both still?
My question is should I stick em into water+ spaghnum moss,pon,or repot it into soil? Please let me what you think,i could use the input please🙏
Hi! Loved your video! Please can you help me though I think my alocasia has root rot. How do I check for this and treat it. It’s only affected 1 leaf so far the rest are still healthy.
thank you so much! lots of people have been asking me about root rot and i WISH i had a video about it done already to help. in short, take the plant out of the pot and look at the roots. check for dark coloration, mushiness. if you gently pull on the root and the outer layer comes off - it's definitely root rot. there's tons of videos out on root rot that would definitely help you if you need more in-depth info!
definitely overwatered mine based on what u said :') its finally growing back tho so yayay
So the fact that leaves go light green is normal? And I wanted to change the soil (leave in same size pot) because I saw a net around the stems can i still do this in the winter time?
Can I mist mine if I don’t have a humidifier?
Just got an alocasia sarawakensis and it is putting out a lot of new growth even though it's late November! Should I lightly fertilize it to support the new growth even though it is dormant season? It's also dropping a lot of outer leaves, so I'm worried it's lacking nutrients to support the new growth.
Sorry this is late, but yes definitely. There is no real dormant season, they just die back when it gets cool. If yours is growing you do want a lightly fertilizer, since they are heavy feeders and resist bugs better when lightly fertilized frequently. I fertilize mine (been growing them for 30 years now) at every single watering very lightly.
My daughter dropped my alocasia and it hasn’t been wanting to grow. The main leaf where the new leaf comes out is drying and looking shriveled 😭😭😢 will it still grow?
Rewatching cause I brought one home today 🥴 just couldn’t help it lol
ahhh how fun! good luck w her 🌿
Thanks😄🥰
thank you for watching!
Thanks for sharing.. 😊
What are the brown tiny lines on your leaves? I have that to on my large Polly , it’s an insect? I have it a two different genus also . Can someone tell me?
Beautiful is alocasia poly
I have bought an Amajonica plant that has only one leaf and another new one is coming soon. Now I have noticed that the tips of the leaf there is a sap hanging. What is that why it is there or is it normal? Please advise me. Thanks
Mine is down to the bulb and a few roots. The bulb is nice and firm. Show I still keep it in the soil ?
You can!
How to save them in winter ??
Beautiful plant🌿🌱☘️
I love your teaching, if you can actually show us how to cut a bad leaf off.
Since you mentioned how cutting too high could take out a bb leaf, can you talk abt how a plant will put out new growth if that happens? One of my new philo leaves was severed and now I’m not sure how it will keep growing!
This was good
thank you!
Does your camera zoom in purposefully?
If a leaf has burn spots should I cut the leaf off at the base?
Yes
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Can alocassia polly be grown in water?
hi if anyone can answer this for me, I accidentally left mine in the sun, the leaves look a little droopy and aren’t waxy anymore, is it going to return? or will they look like this forever :(
This video is very helpful. Can you tell me why my polly has so many gnats? 😪 How do I get rid of them?
I believe this is from the soil moisture, gnats love that environment, there’s lots of tips online of how to get rid of them, but I can’t remember the specific ones !
Thankfully where I live the only seasons we have are summer and rainy 😂 that way I have leaves coming out all the time
ooooo that is heaven! i only have like 3 months of warmth :(
Good & Planty yes I’m definitely lucky! The tropical plants just grow wild outside
Thank you for the tips. Yours looks so shiny, what do you clean them with?
It's a mix of pest prevention (i usually recommend neem oil), distilled water, dish soap, and a little bit of essential oil. I go over it in my latest soothing sunday video!
Good & Planty thank you, I will check it out.
Very helpful. Thanks for sharing.
My Alocasia has purple underneath the leaves , can anyone tell me if that’s a polly?
Is that the same as angel wing plant think what it's called seems like there was a alocasia with a nick name like that
Where you get your plants from?
i got the larger one from whole foods and the smaller one from a plant shop in nyc!
Hi, I Just Repotted My Alocasia Polly. Now My Leaves Are Turning Brown/Yellowish 😭😭 How Do I Revive It ?? I Live In Alaska & The Humid Is Already Cold Since Its The Beginning Of Fall Season
hi vanessa! it sounds like your plant is going dormant for the fall/winter. nothing to worry about!
Hi is this called also the African Mask?
I go to wipe my leaves and keep accidentally breaking the stems... I'm so sad idk what I'm doing 😭
The leaves keep dropping and turning a different color. Not sure what has happened to it
We dont get sun in uk .
“I’m not a botanist”, knows everything about her plethora of plants 😂
thanks for all this information! I think I overwatered... 😬 Because my alocasia polly has one leaf with soft spots that are a yellow/brown/green (it looks kinda weird)
oop 😬 sounds like it could be overwatering. if it is - don't worry - we've all been there! lol
Glad I came across your video, I recently repotted my alocasia Polly (2 weeks ago) and split my plants into 3 pots and recently I saw leaves (1 in each pot) turned yellow….OMG what do I do??? Help please
Great video. I almost bought the Polly today at a local nursery for a decent price. I may go tomorrow and pick it up. It is such a beautiful plant. I just hear alocasia plants are prone to pests. Have you dealt with pest on them yet?🤞🏽🥺😬🥶
thank you! yes, they are SUCH gorgeous plants. i sadly have to agree that they are pest magnets - specifically for spider mites. i am dealing with spider mites on the larger alocasia polly. just something to keep in mind!
@@GoodandPlanty Oh no, sorry to hear. You seem to be doing an awesome job in caring for them because they look healthy and beautiful despite. Would love to see a video on how you take care of pest infestation and also preventative measures you use. Good luck. Love your videos!😊🪴
Great information in this video, 😊 thanks
My alocasia, polly included LOVE pon and semihydro. I hardly ever lose a leaf. My big momma has leaves well over the size of my head! I haven't had it in the winter yet, so we'll see what happens.
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