Indoor Elephant Ear plants

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  1. Mityone54

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    I just purchased some indoor elephant ear plants and the leaves immediately started turning yellow..........Any suggestions at what this could mean?........
     
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    Your location is colder than where it was living, hotter, brighter, and/or you've given it too much water (or else not enough). Sorry, not a lot to go on.
     
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    Well, we have them near the windows and we watered them.But, I don't know if it was too much water or not enough.........I am told that they need to be transplanted into bigger pots with better drainage........And that I need to give them vitamin B-1..
    any more suggestions.My wife will die if they die.........HELP...........
     
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    Daniel Mosquin Paragon of Plants UBC Botanical Garden Forums Administrator Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    The myth of vitamin B1

    Why do you believe it might be a drainage issue (I'm not saying it's not, but a bit more info on how wet the soil is and the current drainage would be helpful)?
     
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    I don't know if is a drainage issue.......I asked this gardening person at a nursey and he suggested that........But, I just transplanted them into bigger pots so, I hope that helps...........
     
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    Yellowing often means a plant's been overwatered, which is probably why he asked. I'm not sure what a larger pot will achieve (unless it was rootbound anyway), but if you'd added a bunch of grit or small gravel to the mix it would have helped it to drain more quickly when you do water. I hope you're not leaving the pot sitting in drain water - that'll rot the roots faster than anything.
     
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    Hello, I'm new to this forum but I also have an indoor Elephant plant and I was having similar problem and also when a new leaf would grow one other would turn brown and die off. I found out that they cannot be in direct sunlight. Since I moved it to another room where it gets only filtered sunlight it has quadrupled in size and has many many leaves. Good Luck

    Charlene
     

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