'shrinking' alocasia macrorrhiza
paradisefound
18 years ago
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My A. macrorrhiza started as a 'volunteer' seedling 2 years ago and grew like crazy last spring and summer, going from 1 foot to 3 feet of trunk. This year it appears to be developing gradually smaller leaves, shorter petioles, and narrower trunk. It seems to be flowering as usual. It grows in a moist portion of amended clay up against the northeast corner of the house. My neighbor's plant seemed to do the same thing at about the same height, though his probably received less light than mine. Additionally, I have a 1 year old potted specimen with about 1 foot of trunk which appears to be suffering the same fate. I wanted to blame excess moisture after our heavy rains this winter, but this process seemed to have started last fall before the rains. If anything, I've been fertilizing more regularly for the past year. Do these plants just start to peter out once they reach a certain height or age? The tallest specimen I've seen in our neighborhood has about 6 feet of trunk, but it has smaller leaves than mine. I would love to see 3 feet long leaves on 3 feet of petiole, but for now it's more like 1.5 and 1.5.
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