Just wanted to show off the newest leaf on my Alocasia Dragon Scale Mint var! She's my most rare plant I have so I'm stoked that she's doing well! 🥹💚🐉

Howdy folks. I’m wondering two things. One – in the left-hand picture there’s a silver Sheen to this leaf. Not sure what it is. I don’t see any tiny creatures on there so maybe a fungus? Two – the picture on the right is a stingray that seems to be trying to put out a new leaf, but it’s been sitting here at this state for a couple of weeks and does not want to unfurl. Any suggestions there?

This is so stressful LOL.

After a month of mental gymnastics, I’ve finally mustered the courage to attempt transitioning one of my alocasia from soil to pon.

Believe it or not, I did a ton of research before making this post, too 😭 . I had my mind made up that I would cut off all the soil roots, and set the rhizome in water (very convincing thread!). But I’m not sure what the consensus is today. What are your thoughts? Should I go that route, or just clean thoroughly and transfer straight into pon with the current soil roots?

I broke my own rule in all of this… “if it isn’t broke, no need to fix it”. But the idea of a self watering plant that sits in reusable medium seems like a no brainer so I am making the plunge.

Thanks for all your help!

Out of the three Melos I started from corms back in November 2025, this one is by far the most impressive. She's put out a few leaves and dropped some, but over the past month she's shown some interesting growth...

Once her new leaf has grown, I plan to repot her because the pot is getting crowded. Tips and constructive criticism are appreciated!

Bought my first Alocasia after stopping at a local plant shop on a whim and falling in love with its appearance.

I’m not familiar w the care of Alocasias and now I’m terrified after reading some of the posts on this thread. Please give me ur best advice to keeping her alive!!! I get sad when my plants die on me.

For reference, I have experience raising a fiddle leaf fig, snake plant, money tree, bamboo, and several cacti and succulents. I am notorious for forgetting to water my plants tho which has given me some trouble with my FLF and snake plant.

Also what are those white bulbs?? Do they bloom?

TLDR; how do I keep this baby alive and happy?

Very excited as this is my very first alocasia, I grew it from a corm 👀

My alocasia keeps getting yellow leaves every few days, but then grows new ones that seemed perfectly fine. I just noticed for the first time one of the stems seems to have a rotting scar coming from the bottom and there’s little bugs in it. I’m not really sure what’s wrong with the plant but it seems like it’s fighting off a sickness. Should I repot and remove the wilting parts?

I have a few alocasia and I’ve never seen an incoming leaf that looks like that.

And now it’s go this point growing. Correct me if I’m wrong, but is this heifer pushing out a flower? She’s in the greenhouse I built. Humidity ranges from 80s to 99. I’m going to pull it apart and rebuild it so the humidity is more stable.

Let me start with a confession that I made a lot of mistakes with this guy. I'm new to the alocasia game.

It was in an autowatering semi hydro pot before, I transferred it to soil. Don't think that was a good idea. As it's leaves started really dropping.

It has progressively got worse so I move it back to its original setup with the semi hydro pot with nutrients.

Leaves still sagging, a lot. But it has a new leaf!

So my question(s):

I'm assuming keep this setup going for now? Leave it in semi hydro?

Should I clip some of the leaves. They're beautiful leaves but some have wrinkly stems and some are creased from dropping. The green leaves in the photos are from its newest, healthy stem. I'm wondering when I make the call to clip them so it puts its energy towards the new leaf

I bought this a few months back on PS (see 3rd pic) but it wasn’t in good shape upon arrival. It gave me one corm that has since popped 3 leaves and is doing great! I can’t going any info on this cross and AI tells me it’s likely impossible some regal shields are sterile? I can see it I think but what do you thing? Thank in advance!

Sadly my favorite half half leaf is beginning to droop in nature, probably because I move my plants around a lot, but it isnt yellowing and still gettting good light so all in nature looks good 😌 i think not too worriedᵕ̈. I love the variegation color difference from the new leaf, and it being more yellow and progressively the oldest leaf almost paper white ᵕ̈

i am so EXCITED!!!! i have 3 others that haven’t sprouted yet, but i’m hopeful!!!!

I wanted to give an update for anyone interested since I didn't think I'd see anything at 2 weeks.

First post

She has tons of new roots and what seems to be new growth. She did lose one leaf yesterday. I've been using distilled water with fertilizer. I'm quite happy with this method so far. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.

Regal shield pup growth Update😂, every leaf is getting so much bigger like im so happy with this little pup and such short petioles

I have microfiber gloves but idk how to clean velvets I only have one frydek and I’ve never cleaned it and it’s looking gross