Checking out the houseplants at the groceries and I found an Alocasia Bracifolia which I’ve never seen before but looked it up and thought it looked pretty cool. I was disappointed there was one and it was dead but then I remembered that they grew from corms so I bought it anyways. I dug inside the soil and found a corm that is pretty firm so now I’m on a rescue mission.
by DiffuzedLight
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pretty cool, I once asked if I can have the dead plant for free cause I liked to compost. They let me take 3 for free
Good luck!
Id definitely give it super high humidity. Mine lives in a terrarium.
You for the next few months
Yeah mine hates life atm. But I love those gen z plugs! I’ve bought tons of great finds and they’re usually cheap cheap!!!
Yes there is a chance it can come back
Omg finding the pitiful little plants at grocery outlet is my favorite 😭
That’s very cool! Well done!
We love a Grocery Outlet plant rehab! I once snagged a mature three-foot-tall diffenbachia for $30 — he lives in my classroom and is named Paul.
Yeah they laugh, but those stores that laugh at the dying plants and don’t care to provide regular water make me angry. Such an unnecessary waste! And sometimes after asking politely if they would water the plants, they could sell them as a reminder, they say stupid shit like “hah we’re just letting them die, they’ll die anyway so no use’”, say non-plant people. Fricken irresponsible as they are “alive” and that should mean something. So here’s my 2 rescues from last evenings “quick trip” to buy 1 big group snack of something, and I took the non-fig to the bathroom water fountain as the 1st thing I did, and found a manager and again, politely pointed out their plants can liven up “for selling” with watering ($ is their motive), but no, and I wasn’t willing to pay $8 for either. Negotiated to $3 each, I figure a learning experience for me as I’ve had neither of these species yet.
I bought the last alocasia black magic on the shelf for $5. It looked awful and is still struggling but once it gets over the stress I’m sure it will come back gangbusters.
Mostly dead means slightly alive
Love a good Groc out plant deal!
Honestly looks like a solid rescue to me. That corm might bounce back.
My husband accidentally threw away a cup of soil from an alocasia rescue I repotted. The top part of the corms with the stems fell off on the drive home because they were tipping from being so tall and leggy, so I repotted it and left the existing roots and corms in a cup on the table. I went to look for it the next day, noticed the trash had been taken out and my heart dropped. I even went out to the dumpster to see if it was in grabbing distance 😂😭 it wasn’t. I could see the bag, but I would have had to climb in and as much as it hurt, very few plants are worth that.
I just hope what I repotted survives, otherwise I’ll really be sobbing.
I’ve had greenhouse employes laugh at me for buying dormant Alocasia that were discounted to a dollar. I made the mistake of sharing how excited I was to find rare (at the time) jewel Alocasia. They told me it was a waste of time because it was the beginning of winter.
Jokes on them. I made a terrarium from a 20 gallon fish tank. They were back and bushy before spring. For some reason, people like being confidently wrong and arrogant to strangers. Congrats on the find!