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well i need help =/ ok we planted some elephant ears about 3 weeks ago the first week we watered hem A LOT (don't know if thats what killed them) and we also planted flowers at the same time, which are coming out EXTREMELY well, since then there has been other stuff (i think) coming out of the ground that aren't elephant ears. we took a test of the soil for nitrogen think? i don't know i lost the box and well i have bad memory. and it said it was neutral, so right now i don't know whats happening to them
Where are you? Elephant ears in NC are just beginning to sprout from the bulbs here. It'll be the end of may before they really take off. From my experience, they'll grow in any dirt you plant them in. They do best in well drained, moist soil.
im in texas zone 9, and if anybody does anybody have pictures of like stages of growth so i know what to pull out of the garden. (i've already searched)
You'll recognize them. They look like short, fat, stubby curls, with only the tops showing at first... light green. They grow quickly once they start. I'd not do much right now, just let 'em lie. Some of ours haven't shown up yet and I'm letting them just stay put. I have had the bulbs rot in the ground before but that's not gonna happen often. Ours are three years old this season so they'll come up quicker, but everything is showing up pretty early.
If you can find some more bulbs to plant, do so. You can always separate them later on...give them away or move them around.
Not sure of the hosting site, but here are some pictures including what it looks like as the shoots come out of the ground. You can't mistake them for anything else.
ok good news we now have 1 single elephant ear (out of the 20-25 that we planted) and on thursday we had another elephant ear type looking thing but it didn't have any ear yet but some its gone today which im very sad of but at least we have 1 plant :P
I have some potted up and I put a large amount of leaf and twig litter in with a bit of soil and they are doing fantastic. Like a lot of plants that prefer moisture, they like it to be well-draining.
I recently read that elephant ears need more water as mature plants than they do as younger ones. Too much water on a young elephant's ear can harm it, but later in life they will drink plenty of water.
i did some research and someone said that i should break of (blank) of the elephant ear to encourage more growth, but i don't know if they mean the whole thing that you can see, or just the top green part.
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but at least we have 1 plant :P
