i have no idea what im doing, ive been researching and doing whatever i can to try and save this plant but i think i need help đ what can i do?? is it gonna be okay? i dont water it a lot, just misting when i do. its constantly outside so it gets a lot of direct light but it was trapped inside for a few months.. P.S. without the stick binder it completely droops down
by ilovesodium2
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Whatâs the weather like where you live
Remove stick, stop âmistingâ that doesnât do anything. Leave it alone.
How wet is the ground? Soil looks very clumpy and clay like. Whatâs temps like. Not enough information at this point but stop this weird stick thing.
Are you sure that you can grow this outside? From my understanding, they are a tropical plant and therefore canât handle temps lower than 10C/50 F. This one almost looks like it has cold damage.
2 things, how cold is it getting? Less than 50° will start to damage it. And it looks like it may need to be buried a little deeper.
This is a tropical plant that does not do well with frost. If you live somewhere that gets cold overnight, this should not be in the ground.
That leaf has stronger Support, than I do đ
Does anyone else see an elephant head in the leaf? (2nd pic)
Ummm⊠itâs a tropical plant.
Oh honey. The tape. I donât know but youâre trying so hard!
I agree with it needing humidity. Elephant ears plants have tubers and they grow very fast. Transfer the tuber in a fresh pot and make sure it gets lots of light by the window. You can even make several plants if the tuber is big!
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Oh my friend bring her inside.
I see people grow elephant ears around here (Maryland) but they dig the tubers/corms/whatever and bring them inside for the winter.
Personally itâs not my thing to try to grow tropical plants outside. Youâre fighting nature even more than you are inside where at least you can improve their growing conditions with light, humidity, appropriate soil and good drainage, etc. I like native plants outside because they are adapted to my growing conditions (especially the heavy clay soil) and they benefit wildlife like birds and pollinators.
Iâm in grow zone 4a and donât plant my ears tubers outside until the end of April.
Actually⊠I have some questions. When did you originally plant this? What zone are you in? Has it gone through its dormant phase this season?
Probably move inside. But as long as stem is green there’s some hope.
If you’re really in Oklahoma, you need to pot that poor plant and bring it inside before it freezes completely. These are tropical plants.
AND hopeless.
Oh gawd. Just chop already hahaha she will come back. With some love and patience.
Iâm in a zone 6. I had elephant ears outside last summer and I needed to give them a gallon of water every single day or theyâd all die off. I could go every few days in the fall weather but they still needed an incredible amount of water to thrive outdoors.
The nice thing about elephant ears is they have a bulb and if you chop the leaf off itâll sprout more leaves when itâs ready.
Let me be the first to say, you canât just place a plant in the ground and hope it will grow. Do your research figure out what the plant needs and then provide. I donât know what you thought you were doing but I would invest some REAL time and money into researching your plants if you actually want your plants to live.
OP you did not put a tropical plant in the ground in Oklahoma in March đ
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Please donât use tape going forward on your plants đ try twist ties or string:)
It might try to regrow they do that when conditions are not right by returning to bulbs (basically the potato looking growth under the soil), depending if it’s a Clocasia or Alocasia, Clocasias prefer more moist soil and shade while Alocasia prefer drying out more and more light but never direct unless established and even then limit it to morning sunlight and temperature around 70 to 80Fs/20 to 26C but never below 50F/10C
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Yeah it is helpless Aldo because the stick will prevent proper growth but without it it will just flatly fall down. I never had an elephant foot myself but my mother always waters hers with a hose and it’s a very happy plant. I also know that it is a heavy plant on the soil that requires lots of fertilizer to thrive also was it on a pot to be inside and now it is on the ground? Moving plants damages the roots and stresses them out. At this point I would advise you to start over.