Elephant Ear Plant Indoors

Cut the plants back to within two to four inches of the ground several days after the first frost.

Elephant ear plant indoors. Fertilize your elephant ears plant with a general indoor plant fertilizer at half strength 1 x per month. When kept indoors with proper care you can expect your Variegated Elephant Ear to reach 6 foot or more in lengthElephant Ear can grow up to 8 foot. Variegated Elephant Ear prefer to be positioned in bright indirect light for best growth and require this to thrive.

Its a fairly simple process. The leaves can be as large as 2 feet across and 3 feet long. The peculiarity of this plant is its large shiny leaves in the shape of elephant ears.

Outdoors they do well in partial shade. Their flowers have a spathe and spadix with hundreds of tiny flowers similar to a calla lily. This evergreen perennial is native to tropical forests and warm humid areas.

Elephant Ears or Taro are plants naturally found in the tropics grown for their edible corms. Elephant ears can be moved indoors and grown as a houseplant during the winter months. Put the tubers in a grocery bag plastic pot or bulb rate and cover with a mix of peat moss and soil.

No plant satisfies the craving for a taste of the tropics like elephant ear plants. Dig the plants carefully with a potato fork or spade. Full strength is too strong a dose for a houseplant and may cause rampant growth before its ready for it.

Elephant ears Alocasia spp are available in variety of sizes colours and textures. It was named for the huge heart shaped leaves that resemble an elephants ears. The larger leaf form are popularly used indoors to hide those not so nice looking corners of the room whereas the smaller varieties are great for adding a little variety to benches tables or used as low understory plantings.