Elephant Ear Bulb Has Sprouts

Elephant ear bulb won t sprout but is not dead what gives.

Elephant ear bulb has sprouts.

Upright elephant ears alocasia can be brought indoors and grown as houseplants. But this is my starting line and it is already rotting. Prepare the bed for elephant ears by turning the soil. I potted up my dahlia and elephant ear tubers which i overwintered in my cold basement and the dahlias have long since put on greens.

Adventures in bulb harvesting. Keep the plants in bright indirect light and keep the soil consistently moist not wet. For me it s a goner. How to plant elephant ear tubers.

If you live in an area with cold winters store your elephant ear tubers inside until spring. A basement is often a good choice as long as it s not too humid. Select a location in full sun or part sun with a good rich moist organic soil. If you re ever in doubt about which end is up plant a bulb on its side and it ll send the green up and the roots down.

An elephant ear needs regular feeding with a high nitrogen fertilizer such as a 10 2 8 or a 5 3 3 formula diluted at 1 4 teaspoon per gallon but also check the package label for additional. Elephant ear bulbs will spend about three weeks growing roots before you ll notice any activity above ground. To see our selection of elephant ears click here. To see a video about digging splitting and storing elephant ear bulbs click here.

Storing elephant ear bulbs for winter alright i recently shared a post about how to debug plants to bring them indoors for the winter. The elephant ear colocasia is a tropical plant that grows up to 9 feet 2 7 m tall and sprouts large arrow shaped leaves that resemble the ears on an elephant. It seems to me that when i have a rotting elephant ear bulb already that i call game over early. The end with the concentric circles is the top.

Place each tuber in a separate paper bag and put the bags in a cool dark place that stays dry until the weather warms up. Sadly we live in a townhouse so we don t have room to bring everything inside. Plant elephant ear bulbs outside after all danger of frost has passed and daytime temperatures remain above 70 degrees elephant ears are tropical plants and cannot tolerate any frost they only emerge when the soil is warm. I have rescued some plants but at least i started with a plant and leaves and something to work with in those cases.