Alocasia Lutea

[el-blanco]

For those in Lo-Cal growing Alocasia Lutea how does it do for you over the winter? I found 4 at one of the local nurseries that I have planted.  

Mine are planted in great loamy soil and taking off nicely.

Thank you!

Jeff

[Tracy]

52 minutes ago, el-blanco said:

For those in Lo-Cal growing Alocasia Lutea how does it do for you over the winter?

I'm not sure if it is the same species of Alocasia that I was growing in Carlsbad, but if not quite similar.  It would get beat up and push smaller leaves, lose leaves in winter.  It only survived a couple of years after I moved out and it was a rental property.  Perhaps having gardeners care for the yard they got aggressive with trimming it, as they did with some of the palms initially.  I had it adjacent to the house (house to the east of plant) where it got reflected heat from the house in the afternoon and sun from mid-day until the sun went too low and the palms along the back upper slope gave it some late afternoon shade.  I haven't tried any Alocasia species here in Leucadia but I do seem them in neighborhood gardens.  Keep us posted on how your plants perform through winter.  Post a couple of reference shots now as you plant them too.  A visual baseline is always helpful.

[aussiearoids]

Macrorrhizos do grow better planted out ..esp' out of the tropics.

This grows very well for me in the tropics .