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Posted 1Y ago by @Sophieee310

Yellow spots on alocasia

I have these yellow spots on my alocasiaโ€™s newest leaf. I canโ€™t see any sign of pests and itโ€™s only on this new leaf. Google is just throwing out pretty much everything it could be ๐Ÿ˜‚
10ft to light, indirect
8โ€ pot with drainage
Last watered 6 months ago
Did the yellowing suddenly appear, or did it look translucent at first? Sometimes if you overwater an alocasia, the cells in the leaves burst, making the plant leaves look wet, but then, over time, the spots become yellow
@Seedstarter it seemed more like lighter patches at first that then developed into these yellow patches. I feel like Iโ€™ve barely watered it but maybe even that was too much
@Sophieee310 From the look of it, you only need to cut back a little bit since the size of the spot indicates how much you overwatered
I have a Alocasia Dragon Scale too. My experience is when one of my leaves start getting spots. the spots gets bigger causing the whole leaf to turn yellow. Itโ€™s because a new leaf is sprouting and the energy from an older leaf is given to to new leaf. On my Alocasia, as soon as a new leaf sprouts, a leaf dies.
@SweetAzurebluet this is a new leaf though, my older leaves are all fine. It hasnโ€™t gotten any worse so hoping it might be a bit of damage from overwatering previously maybe