GARDENING GUIDE: How I pot up my Giant Elephant-ear Taro plants for spring.

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GARDENING GUIDE: How I pot up my Giant Elephant-ear Taro plants for spring. This is how I store taro (Colocasia ) plants for the winter. Common names include Elephant-ear, Taro, Cocoyam, Dasheen, Chembu, and Eddoe. Time to pot up my Elephant-ear Taro plants for spirng. They will live in the greenhouse now until it is warm enough to plant them back in the ground outside.

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Does anybody know if the 'buds' (also reffered to as pups or nodes) can be cut off and dried or somehow prepared for a separate pot? They are on the original bulb; I never seem to get new separate tubers. In this video at the 2:35 minute mark are examples of what I have.

Love your elephant ear plants check out mine on my channel thanks

had a bit of a heart attack when the phone went off

what kind of soil should i use for my bulbs they have leaves already need to repot them...

Does anyone here eat their elephant ear taro leaves? if so how do you prepare it?

Good video but try and keep the camera still in the future

I kept my Tarrow covered this winter and uncovered it about three weeks ago, we don't get snow here so I had a way head start on your Tarrows. Mine are already looking awesomely beautiful ;) now my dwarf banana I'm a little scared about. doesn't look so good I think I have to put some fungicide on it

Thanks for sharing this video. Glad to get some pointers.

Sound like they should be good where they are. Good luck!

Hi Debra, it depend what zone you are? In zone 8b here, I'll be bringing mine in fairly soon. Since it has leaves I would pot it up place it out side until frost warnings. Then treat it as a house plant, it will give you a jump in the spring if it is now dormant. Don't over water in the house and watch out for aphids.

1- Will the Thailand Giant and will the Black Magic produce bulbs to save for next year? 2- How would I get a start from the Thai Giant and Black Magic to produce a completely new plant?

I recently purachased an elephant ear root ball. I would like to know can I start them off in my home area of zone 6a?

How do you tell they are in dormancy and not dead?

I usually plant mine at the end of feb up to the middle of march. some of my elephant ears never go dormant :) i will start hardening them off outside as soon as the temps are right :)

They look Great. My Colocasia esculenta are stored bare root (bare bulbed) in a paper bag in vermiculite for the winter :). These are by far the toughest variety in my opinion