hi there my name is memo this is my channel house planty goodness and essentially it's a place where i like to geek out about my big passion which you might be able to see around me and in front of me it's tropical house plants so today i want to talk about the plant that you might be able to see in front of me and for some people that have got this in the collection they might be swearing at their screen right now.
because this is the allocation amazonica polly or at least that's where i keep seeing the name come up some people might say that it's the alocasia amazonica some people might say it's the allocation poly some people i've seen it called the amazonica polly as well so take from it what you will let's talk a bit more about this plant however so like About the plant i'm sure you've seen in some other videos this is a plant that was made it was hybridized by humans.
i'm not entirely sure what the cross was in order to create this and i'm not even sure if that's been released because a lot of the times if the plant has been crossed in the trade there's usually not an awful lot of information of what the cross might be there might be some good guesses if i can find online what people assume that this has been crossed with or even if it's been confirmed i'll add it somewhere on the video and you might be able to see what the cross of the two different allocations was but the reason why i'm saying that this is a plant that might get a few people's hackles up is because this tends to be a relatively easy allocation to find in most stores.
at least in my location so in the uk and i would assume europe is probably the same as well it's definitely got a very interesting leaf look to it it's not um velvety in the touch it's kind of leathery relatively kind of stiff not particularly stiff but relatively kind of durable leaves let's just call it that way probably more so than some other locations which might have some thinner leaves not so much like the dual allocations the dual allocations tend to have slightly harder leaves i'm thinking of for instance the the alocasia black velvet that's got slightly harder leaves the same thing with the dragon skills and everything like that but this has definitely got a bit of a leathery feel to it like most allocations .
and i will say this is probably the allocation that does this the most it is a spider-mite magnet absolute spider-mite magnet and you can see that you might have seen this in some of my other videos these are satchels of predatory mites and they are predatory spider mite um mites essentially so they're a different type of mite that will eat the spider mites so good mites.
we like these types of mites we don't like the spider mites Spider mites i know uh so one of the people that i've always followed on youtube which is plants pots and whatnots and if you haven't discovered the channel by all means please go and give her all the love that you can because just awesome human being great collection i can't say any more than that really but she has actually had some challenges recently because she used some of the predatory mites and she was saying that she got even more mites .
i don't know if that's a batch issue or there's a specific retailer in canada where she's based and that it might be a bit of an issue here i've not had that problem in the uk and i've not had that problem with the spider mites predatory company that i use over here which is dragonfly if i'm not mistaken um so i've been really lucky when it comes to that the other thing that you might notice on this plant and hopefully if i move this leaf you might be able to see it there probably let me see if i can bring it in a bit closer so you might be able to see it a bit more.
i don't know if you can see that orange blob that's happening there that is actually seeds of the Seeds alocasia and i haven't pollinated it so i'm not entirely sure if that is fertile seeds or not and that is another point i want to say there's one two three four four spent flour pods essentially is what they turn into after the bloom is spent it doesn't smell particularly as far as i can tell you um and generally speaking in terms of care for this plant if you want more foliage and this goes with most plants to be fair chop off the blooms especially if it's not anything that you necessarily want to see over and over and over again and that will release some energy back into the plant to then push out more folate more foliage rather than more blooms.
so that's something to bear in mind but as i said spider mites probably going to be the biggest issue over here with this one this is also one that some people struggle to keep happy with and in my experience through growing a lot of allocation for a long period of time this might be the first allocation that people buy i don't and again this is just my opinion i don't think this is the best one to maybe start off with it's not as straightforward as you might believe based on how readily available and how cheap it is in the market.
but take that how you will essentially but uh in my experience with this one it's the same as most allocations it likes to get watered just before the soil goes dry a moisture meter will be your friend in this one i don't know whether or not you've noticed when i picked this up earlier on i have since transferred this specific allocation into pond rather than soil i know allocation generally do quite well in lekker i tried lekker it's it wasn't for me pond.
i am really enjoying at the moment so to choose upon and this one is doing quite well and actually unlike a lot of my other allocation in pond i do let this dry out a bit more before i water it it's not in a water reservoir i'm just watering it the same way that it i would have done if it was within soil rather than pond Humidity and it seems to be loving life which is good and generally speaking i'm not surprised most of the allocation that i've moved over to pond are doing really really well now humidity with this one i've tended to have it in household humidity a lot of times above radiators which probably agitates the spider my issue a bit more .
because i tend to get more spider mites in the winter than i do in the summer because of the the heat the dry heat from the radiators and there's less humidity but so far the interesting thing that has happened and this is only based on a few months of experience with this plant is since i've moved it into lekker i've had less issues not like a pawn i've had less issues with spider mites to be entirely frank i have not had any spider mites since moving it in and i was fully expecting the moment that it moved into a dryer medium that it would have that issue but it's doing really really well with most allocation same thing goes with this one if you don't get the watering just right and i'm really sorry to tell you this but it's going to be a bit of a trial and error until you get it right for your plant in your environment of getting that watering of watering.
it just because before it goes fully dry you will see this plant sacrifice the oldest leaf for a new leaf to emerge and it kind of makes sense the problem that happens then is that if you started with an allocation with three leaves and that happens and you get a new leaf and you lose an old leaf you've still got an allocation with three leaves you don't have an allocation with four leaves and because of the way that it grows out of a central corn that could be a challenge for some people but just getting the watering just right is going to be one of those things that's really going to help you with this plant.
in terms of fertilizing the same thing that i do with most of my other plants once every second or third watering i will properly fertilize this plant even in the winter because i've always got this in a south-facing window i think i've said this previously as well with most of my allocation maybe not the dual allocation with most of my allocation i almost give them south facing bright bright lights almost the same level as a cactus if i can give them a bit more shade and i will prefer that but they generally tend to do a bit better than that i think the moment that i move them into slightly lower light or maybe just a bright indirect light is the moment that i start having my allocation struggle again that's just been my experience and obviously.
i'm in the northern hemisphere so obviously south-facing window gets the brightest light if you're in the southern hemisphere then that's going to be the opposite for you essentially but Outro overall after a while you will get the hang of this and it does eventually become one of your easier allocation to take care of but there's going to be a bit of trial and error don't get disheartened if this is the first allocation you've got and it didn't do well try with some other allocations i would almost say i'm trying to think now of another one i for me at least one of the easier allocations that i found were both the allocation zabrina that was easier than this and also the allocation.
i want to say gagiana but the allocation guardian verigate is the other big leaf allocation that i have i think it's the allocation macro riser with just the big traditional green elephant ear leaves and i know both the sabrina and the macro riser are quite in your face and they can get quite large and kind of small tree size when you get the care just right so bear that in mind this will stay a bit more compact but yeah i think that's what i wanted to say about this one what have your experiences been with growing this type of allocation have you struggled have you had some successes what have you done maybe differently to what i do do drop.
it in the comments down below i'd love to have that conversation i'm sure other people would like to know kind of other success stories or even some failure stories and yeah as i said previously i'll say it again don't get disheartened if this is one that you don't do particularly well with as i said in my experience i don't truly think that this is a true beginner alocasia but yeah hopefully you've enjoyed hopefully i shall see you here soon and i truly truly hope you have a great rest of your day thanks bye.
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