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Comments (6)Good Morning Raven, I have been looking for a trade specifically for your "Australia" cannas. I have a few things that are on your list. I do have Solomon's Seal, both the green and the variegated. I also have lily of the valley, but it's mixed both pink and white. I also have lots of Naked Ladies. Let me know if your interested. Suzanne...See MorePlease help me with my Alocasia calidora, Elephant´s Ear
Comments (2)Hannah, Yellowing between the veins of older leaves generally indicates a lack of a transportable nutrient, such as Magnesium. What is the analysis of the Plantacote? It could be that it is too slow releasing for the needs of the A. x calidora. These plants are very vigorous and that means they need enough nutrients to sustain that growth. Otherwise, they will decline and die down or out. I give my host of Alocasia hybrids a soluble fert solution every week and I use a higher nitrogen mix as well, occasionally supplementing with extra iron and manganese. Even under these conditions, some of mine get a little pale from time to time, especially in the summertime growing months. Many, if not most, of these Alocasia like well draining soil mix as well, so if your soil is heavy and wet, that might be part of the problem. Healthy roots are a must for proper nutrient uptake. Hope this helps, LariAnn Garner Aroidia Research Here is a link that might be useful: Alocasia x calidora...See MoreElephant Ears? Colocasia? Alocasia? How do you plant yours?
Comments (7)So I have an idea. Big Lots carries outdoor containers/pots that have no drainage holes. That always bugged me... until today! I'm wondering if they would be perfect? From what I am reading, colocasia like it very wet - in fact you can submerge them in pots in water/pond. I would like to stick these in the ground, but I do not want to deal with runners and an invasive plant. I think I am going to pick up a couple of those very cheap pots at Big Lots and sink those in the ground with my new bulbs. Help me - is there anything bad about this idea? Carol...See MoreWhen do you put in your elephant ears, hostas etc,? And how deep
Comments (2)Seedmama, I think I'll always have Neil Sperry's voice in my head telling me what to do and how to do it, and that's a good thing! I do think May 1st was great advice for Dallas and the whole D-FW metro area perhaps even all the way up to the Red River. I still plant them May 1st (but, remember, I am so far south that I have Texas on three sides of me) if the soil temp is consistently 70 degrees and the 10-day forecast doesn't have any wicked cold weather in it. For everyone in OK north of the Arbuckles, I would think May 15th would be a perfect date as long as the soil is warm and the forecast has warm nights in it. If you want to get an early start, Momfryhover, plant them in one or two gallon pots in potting soil and place them someplace warm....a concrete patio or driveway slab would be ideal. You'll have to move them inside on cold nights though. Planting early doesn't get you much growth if the soil and nights are cold because the bulbs just sit there and sulk....or, if it is wet and cold, they rot. For hostas, I don't grow them here since I discovered, after planting 30 of them here our first year, that they are "deer chow". When I planted them in Texas and here, I liked to plant the crown of the smaller ones 1/2" to 1" below the soil surface in black gumbo clay or a little deeper in really well-drained sandy loam. With the really large hostas, you can put the crown 1" to 2" below the soil surface in well-drained loamy soil, but a little more shallow than that in clay. (Really, clay ought to be well-amended for hostas and, in that case, you could plant them 1" to 2" below the soil surface.) I think the whole issue of planting hostas deeply (or how deeply to do it) is more critical in colder climates where repeated winter freezing/thawing of the ground can result in frost heave, wherein plants are literally heaved upward out of the ground and then freeze to death. If you plant the hosta crown just a bit below the soil surface and mulch well (mulch around the plant, but not on top of the crown), the plants should do just fine. Dawn...See Morenicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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