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How to avoid my elephant ears from going dormant?

7 years ago

I have a few alocasias that I think are going dormant. One has a leaf that grew smaller than usual. As in way smaller and i dont see sign of new leaf coming out any time soon. one has leaves that just keep dying all of a sudden! Help!!!

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  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Mike,

    I don't know if one CAN put off dormancy, if a plant is programmed to do that by nature.

    Here's a link to a Grower who apparently grows a lot of Alocasias.

    https://www.ohiotropics.com/2019/02/21/growing-alocasia-amazonica/

    At the end of the link it looks like one can email questions to him. I read about 1/2 the article & didn't see him address dormancy, but pls check it out. Looks like this guy really knows Alocasias.

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