Alocasia corms
I repotted my Alocasia dragon scale yesterday, and I have corms!!! Please drop any tips/tricks/articles you may have so I can turn these little cuties in to more plants! Thank you! #happyplants #plantsmakepeoplehappy #alocasiaaddicts #propagationstation #plantaddict #corms
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@Itzhuehueplayz corms are like tiny bulbs that the plants grow from. As alocasias grow, they store extra energy in these corms. They can either use these when nutrients are scarce, or they can be used to grow more alocasias. Philodendrons don't have corms. Most philos can be propogated by leaf or stem. Corms can be finicky and tough to get started. Leaf and stem propogation is a lot easier, you can just pop a cutting with a node in some dirt or water and wait for it to root.
@CrispRedfir I was trying to go back in my pics and find when I did mine but it was awhile ago and apparently I’m not using good enough key words to find them in my thousands of pictures lol. I had a silver dragon I rescued from Lowe’s and the mom wasn’t gonna make it but I had all her corms and my rugaso was pushing corms up so I tried various ways of starting them and I found starting them in water to be most effective. I did not bake the perlite beforehand. I did use only bottled water with them for quite a while.
Definitely do what @KDkat3 says! That's the easiest/bulletproof way of growing it.
I just do small things different, since that works for me.
I lay them in a small dish and put a lid on it or some cling film. And I don't change the water (maybe better if you do).
After they have a leaf I repot then in soil or in semi-hydro mix. Both have worked for me so far.
And it is really important to remove the outer layer of the corm like Kadie said! This rots easily in my experience.
They can be slow with developing, but as long as they don't rot it will eventually grow! The pictures are the once that are currently still on my shelf.
I just do small things different, since that works for me.
I lay them in a small dish and put a lid on it or some cling film. And I don't change the water (maybe better if you do).
After they have a leaf I repot then in soil or in semi-hydro mix. Both have worked for me so far.
And it is really important to remove the outer layer of the corm like Kadie said! This rots easily in my experience.
They can be slow with developing, but as long as they don't rot it will eventually grow! The pictures are the once that are currently still on my shelf.
@KDkat3 I've honestly been looking forward to the day that one of my Alocasias needed repotting so I could go corm hunting. It's such an amazing thing to watch these tiny things sprout roots! I don't need any new plants, but I can't stop propagating for the same reason, lol. It's just so cool! Do any of the plant swaps on here trade corms? I think it would be pretty neat to trade some of my corms for other plants I don't have.
@Nathaliezyx4 thank you! Cling wrap is a really good idea. I put them in distilled water, so just gonna go with that and not change the water unless I need to.
@Nathaliezyx4 I am so glad you had pictures to show! I couldn’t find mine. But I too tried various methods and this worked for all but 1 corm! It even worked for the others I tried in moss and ended up switching to water and then they sprouted!