Digging & Potting Giant Elephant Ears! Zygopetalum Orchid Update! Weekly Vlog

It's that time! Actually i'm a couple of weeks behind on this, but better late than never! In this weeks vlogs I am digging up and transplanting some of my tropical plants in the garden. Tropical plants like these elephant ears ( Alocasias ) need to be dug and stored during the winters where I live (zone 6b) because they are unlikely to survive the cold winters, and even when they do, they never grow into impressive plants the following year. I dig the elephant ears up from my garden, remove as much of the soil / clay as possible and get them going in a well-drained potting mix. After which I apply systemic insecticides to give those a few weeks to get into the plant's system before moving them indoors. Digging and storing them as dormant tubers is also an option but I've become attached to the small trunks they are growing and would like to keep that growth going if at all possible.

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