Eddo (Elephants Ears, Colocasia ?)

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    Yes mowgley we already start working on it , I`ll may pop in my local tmw .

    why don`t you buy some and have a go?????
    also we should start a thread for the 2013
     
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        Very nearly :) the Asian supermarket I bought from last year is close by my office and I'm really wanting to get started, however it's too early for me I think. Give it another month for the weather to warm up a bit.
         
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        Yes, I said it was suran. Great pics, well worth growing.
         
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          started few already.

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          and 3 days later

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          and a week later

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            You got them in a heated propagator or airing cupboard sal?
             
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            heated propagator and bag as well
             
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            Been into morrisons and sainsburys and neither have any!
            Oh we'll keep looking
             
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            did you check tesco???
            seen lots of them yesterday .
            also try to order online
             
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            Hi I have just some up today to try again. Three edoes and two arbi's.:)
             
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              Went shopping in Bradford market a couple of days ago. Bought two the size of a grapefruit - from Costa Rica, and on another stall, two the same size from Jamaica. Local Morrisons also had smaller ones.

              I would like to think that large tubers gave large leaves. But I suspect that they simply give more small leaves.
               
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              Pretty sure I have heard that with Alocasia the tuber size will increase year-on-year and that correlates to the leaf size; not sure how that correlates to Colocasia, and whether they are different at all (my Colocasia seem to want to pup, rather than fatten a tuber :) ) but here's hoping you get something massive :blue thumb:
               
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                it doesn`t really work like that , but what i noticed is that big tuber will grow faster ...
                I think i you got some dasheen Peters , i will go back wednesday to my local as I told me that can get more chinese taro and lotus flower ; )

                ps did you see my thread about suran?
                 
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                few more update
                my calidora ..... alias chinese taro for deep frying

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                and it should become like that

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                but don`t know for sure

                also a nice new surprice one of 3 that i bought in december survived never seen that before

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