elephant ear

It must be lack of humidity that slows mine down. Heat and sunshine I
have aplenty. I'm thinking of digging one out of the garden and putting
it in the pond to see what happens.

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~Roy~ wrote:
Lots of sunshine, heat and water will make them grow fast...

We have some aorund our hot tub patio area, and every winter we cut
them down to the ground. They are better than 5 or 6 inches in
diameter at the ground level. Every spring about late April you will
see a small bud form off the old root, and the next thing they are
over 2 or 3 feet tall and multiplying. Right now they have leaves
approx 2 feet long, and are well over 4 foot tall.......By mid July
they will have leaves better than 3 feet in size and provide shade
over one side of the hot tub and also the table on the patio........

The ones growing in and around my pond obtain 3 or 4 feet in no time
and every fall I cut them down to water level or below............and
right now its a thick deep forest of Taro and elephant
ears...........in dire need of thinning out..

Heat and humidity and lots of water............and we have never
fertilized them

I also have them weighted down (small plants) and have them fully
submerged in various 55 and greater aquariums, planted bare root, and
they do fine that way as well. Really neat looking seeing elephant
ears with leaves all spead out under water........As they outgrow the
tank, I just snip off the larger stems and leaves, as they keep
putting new out constantly.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:20:42 GMT, Elaine T
wrote:


===G & K Meyer wrote:
=== I put in a number of elephant ear plants a few weeks ago and one is doing
=== nothing, and the others just have a small sprout like piece coming out the
=== top. How long do these take to really get going I hoped for some nice shade
=== for the pond from them.
===
=== Thanks for any help.
===
===I have some taro in the ground (I'm in zone 10). For the most part,
===they're pretty slow growers. Mine only seem to add a few leaves a year.



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