Elephant Ear Bulb Has Sprouts

Prepare the bed for elephant ears by turning the soil.

Elephant ear bulb has sprouts.

Place each tuber in a separate paper bag and put the bags in a cool dark place that stays dry until the weather warms up. To see a video about digging splitting and storing elephant ear bulbs click here. If you live in an area with cold winters store your elephant ear tubers inside until spring. To grow these stunning plants plant the bulbs in the early spring with the right soil conditions.

Storing elephant ear bulbs for winter alright i recently shared a post about how to debug plants to bring them indoors for the winter. If you re ever in doubt about which end is up plant a bulb on its side and it ll send the green up and the roots down. It seems to me that when i have a rotting elephant ear bulb already that i call game over early. The end with the concentric circles is the top.

To see our selection of elephant ears click here. Select a location in full sun or part sun with a good rich moist organic soil. Keep the plants in bright indirect light and keep the soil consistently moist not wet. For me it s a goner.

Sadly we live in a townhouse so we don t have room to bring everything inside. Adventures in bulb harvesting. I have rescued some plants but at least i started with a plant and leaves and something to work with in those cases. Care for them properly with frequent watering and fertilizing to watch them flourish.

But this is my starting line and it is already rotting. Elephant ear bulb won t sprout but is not dead what gives. Plant elephant ear bulbs outside after all danger of frost has passed and daytime temperatures remain above 70 degrees elephant ears are tropical plants and cannot tolerate any frost they only emerge when the soil is warm. Elephant ear bulbs will spend about three weeks growing roots before you ll notice any activity above ground.

The elephant ear colocasia is a tropical plant that grows up to 9 feet 2 7 m tall and sprouts large arrow shaped leaves that resemble the ears on an elephant. A basement is often a good choice as long as it s not too humid. I potted up my dahlia and elephant ear tubers which i overwintered in my cold basement and the dahlias have long since put on greens. Tear so i prioritized cleaning and debugging the plants we can bring inside first and then i.