colocasia
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:53 am
Hello. I work for a training organisation that teach disadvantaged teenagers horticulture. We specialize in bedding and perennials but have recently tried to grow a few tropical plants and we have created a lush tropical garden at a local park. The star of the show was going to be a large Colocasia burgandy stem. we are currently over wintering our plants in a heated greenhouse running at about 16 degrees C. Most of the plants still look very healthy. The colocasia does not. A lot of the leaves are browning at the edges and the leaves seem to be losing their waxy coating. Can anyone help us out as to what the problem is? My first thought is that maybe it has been getting watered to much by our inexperience trainees. Could this be the case? Or is the temp too low?
Should we cut our losses and remove all the foliage?, allowing it to re-shoot, or will it eventually spring back?
As i said before, tropical plants are something that is quite new to us so any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated as we would hate to lose these beautiful plants but embarrassingly lack the knowledge to best advise the trainees as how to best look after them.
Many thanks
Should we cut our losses and remove all the foliage?, allowing it to re-shoot, or will it eventually spring back?
As i said before, tropical plants are something that is quite new to us so any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated as we would hate to lose these beautiful plants but embarrassingly lack the knowledge to best advise the trainees as how to best look after them.
Many thanks