So I'm really bummed that I can't find the video I was looking for because the plant has grown a lot larger since the photo I was able to find. These are less recent:





My question here is do these plants get this huge? I was under the impression that these stay pretty small. They look really big in these photos. I left the lady's head to give perspective.

I'm going to keep looking for the one I had in mind because it was even bigger.

They can get very large when happy!! Not huge large, what tends to happen is that the leaves get larger but the stems don't get that much longer

SOMEBODY is outgrowing their allotted terrarium space....

Oh no! What are you going to do with it?

Let it get as big as it wants! Hopefully it will produce more pups

That would be great if it did! You could have an Alocasia colony!

I finally found it. Look how huge this is!

Optical illusion she has it sitting in a pot above her head LOL. No I agree it is big. I have seen them this big for real, this is about their limit though

I don't know. I took another one after I took the first picture that gives better pot perspective. Either way, it's a big one.

Yes it is! She has done a stellar job with it!

She has. They're really neat looking. I love these but not sure if I could keep one. Maybe I should try with a small one. I've seen the small ones for decent prices.

That plant looks old. It has a trunk, which takes a few years to accomplish. It would be interesting to know if she grew it the entire time, or if she purchased it at that size. If you go back to my original post on this thread, and look at the 2nd photo, one of my old greenhouse plants was about the size of hers. The bromeliad next to it in that photo (Aechmea tayoensis) was pretty big, for scale

Yes, that one in your original post does look big! So does that plant grow pups? How do you propagate it if you want to?

I have seen that plant in some of her older videos. There's a big purple one too, or maybe it the same plant in different lighting. I would also be curious to know how long she's had that plant. I do know that she keeps it/them in her garage which is repurposed as a plant studio and it's almost entirely grow lights.

Wild. They make offsets vegetatively their ownselves without having to reproduce by seeds. They make the little tuber dealios and a new baby plant will grow near the base of mama. But you can propagate by seed...but alocasias are a lot harder then anthuriums. They have imperfect flowers, and the spadix produces pollen on one end and pollen receptors on the other. But the plant has a very limited window to be pollinated....only about 24 hours.

One of my cupreas has a bloom that is open, and right next to it is a bloom of ALocasia infernalis that is not yet open....it would be cool if they somehow cross pollinated

I hope my poly makes an offshoot. It's about time, and it bloomed this year so hopefully if it's happy enough to bloom then it's happy enough to make an offshoot.

Would you have to pollinate those yourself for could they do it themselves. In other words, are alocasia as promiscuous as anthurium? Or do you have to help the pollination?

Usually you would have to do it yourself to be sure it was done within the slim 24 hour window, unless a bug happened along. I know there aren't any animals in the terrarium

Hi!
I came across this post and just wanted to say Hello :)
i am an aroid newbie and currently own
A. amazonica
A. cuprea
A. zebrina
Colocasia esculenta
Philodendron hederaceum 'micans'
Monstera adansonii
Dieffenbachia seguine
and some orchids :)

since my A. amazonica is starting to produce inflorescence i've been cuirios about hand pollination and started googling for the past few days.
My main reason for posting here is because i wanted to share that my alocasia cuprea has no leaves, and i think she is also also producing an inflorescence.
Do you think it is possible?
Do you think she will survive by focusing all her energy to the infloresence without any leaves?

Dawadez! Nice starter collection!
The short answer to your pollination questions is, your Cuprea is not making an inflo, she is making a leaf! Those dried papery looking structures are old cataphylls. You should have a leaf soon.

Alocasia are among the harder aroids to catch in order to pollinate. You generally have to have 2 plants in flower at the same time. The female remains in anthesis only a short time, and is usually only receptive to being pollinated for about 24 hours.

Thanks!
Yes i read about the pollination process and the only part that looks kind of hard for me is the preservarion of the pollen.

I think i will collect the pollen on a paper towel or on a piece of newspaper and put it inside a glass tube and in to the freezer.

Do you think it will do the work?

I have collected Anthurium pollen before. I used a small art paint brush and brushed it directly into a plastic baggie (one of this little ones you store small things in). I have read various things about pollen...that it will keep indefinitely in the freezer (for Anthuriums) and other people say it has a shelf life...so I am not sure about that aspect. But the collection is easy