How to save an Alocasia ‘stem’ when your rhizome is mush - for beginners.
There is much inaccurate information out there about Alocasia. I have heard it said before that if your plant rots at soil level you have to throw it away. This is simply not true. As long can cut it off cleanly with no mush above the cut line and have multiple leaves above the cut it can be saved - even if you have to cut away all of what looks like viable rhizome.
My 6 leaf Infernalis (recently aquired plant in soil) decided to get ‘stem’ rot 🙄 at soil level - before I could transition it. I had to chop it off above the rot in order to try to save it - everything below the soil was complete mush (yay).
All I had left were 3 leaves and 1 possible growth point - after I had pulled off leaves 4, 5 and 6 - but of course there are more potential growth points beneath the 3 remaining leaves. I let the clean cut callous over for 24 hours, sprayed with diluted H2O2 then put in a vessel with the calloused cut edge slightly above the water line - but I wet the base of the cut several times a day until I had root nubs, then I raised the water line to cover the root nubs. I changed the water every few days and kept it topped up, 2 weeks later I have roots. Next this will go into Fluval for a few months and then into Semi Hydro…
Hope this helps.