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Almost two years ago to the day, I bought an alocasia from Black Jungle. The species wasn't labelled, and I don't have any photos. It had two leaves, maybe 3-5 inches long, on stems maybe 4-6 inches long. Fairly small plant. I put it in a terrarium, within two weeks both leaves had fallen off. I was left with a woody stump that protruded from the substrate about half an inch.
About 10-12 MONTHS later, it put out a new leaf, which fell off after I took apart the terrarium several months later and planted it in a smaller grow out tank. When I removed it from the first tank, it had an enormous root network, didn't go deeper into the substrate than 1/2 an inch, but was almost two feet across, growing across half my 55 gallon.
I recently moved it into my new 65 gallon tank, figuring why not, and the roots rotted off. Two months later, I have a little stump about the length of my thumb. It has started some very slow growing bulges on the side, I don't know if they are roots or leaves. Any suggestions on how to get this thing to start growing? I don't have much experience with alocasia, the few I have are kept as houseplants because they started growing so quickly, and have leaves bigger than my head. Don't quite fit in my 65 gallon! I'm not that invested in this one, its more of a puzzle that I want to solve.
About 10-12 MONTHS later, it put out a new leaf, which fell off after I took apart the terrarium several months later and planted it in a smaller grow out tank. When I removed it from the first tank, it had an enormous root network, didn't go deeper into the substrate than 1/2 an inch, but was almost two feet across, growing across half my 55 gallon.
I recently moved it into my new 65 gallon tank, figuring why not, and the roots rotted off. Two months later, I have a little stump about the length of my thumb. It has started some very slow growing bulges on the side, I don't know if they are roots or leaves. Any suggestions on how to get this thing to start growing? I don't have much experience with alocasia, the few I have are kept as houseplants because they started growing so quickly, and have leaves bigger than my head. Don't quite fit in my 65 gallon! I'm not that invested in this one, its more of a puzzle that I want to solve.
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