We are growing elephant ears and the leaves are turning brown

Elliot · July 15, 2015

what can be causing this?

Worth1 · July 15, 2015

Can you take a picture?
Do they have enough water?
The old leaves will turn yellow to brown anyway.

Worth

Elliot · July 15, 2015

i'll have to take a picture and post them

Worth1 · July 15, 2015

The only thing I have ever had happen to mine were some kind of nasty grub like thing that girdles the leaf at the base where the leaf connects to the stalk.

I grow mine in 40 gallon plastic feed tanks buried in the ground with no holes and filled with soil.
Worth

Ganado · July 15, 2015

Worth just curious. . Why do you bury the buckets?

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Worth1 · July 15, 2015

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Worth just curious. . Why do you bury the buckets?

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It keeps them ground level so you cant see the tubs.
I fill them with water about once a month.
If not I would spend a fortune on water.

Worth

dustdevil · July 15, 2015

Too much sun?

b54red · July 15, 2015

They like shade at least good partial shade and plenty of water.

Bill

clkeiper · July 15, 2015

if they wilt down the bottom leaves on mine turn yellow and die. Have you had yours get wilted? and they require fertilizer regularly, too.

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Elliot Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Hicksville, New York Posts: 503	We are growing elephant ears and the leaves are turning brown what can be causing this?

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clkeiper Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: ohio Posts: 4,350	if they wilt down the bottom leaves on mine turn yellow and die. Have you had yours get wilted? and they require fertilizer regularly, too. __________________ carolyn k

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Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Can you take a picture? Do they have enough water? The old leaves will turn yellow to brown anyway. Worth

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Ganado Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Phoenix Posts: 47	Worth just curious. . Why do you bury the buckets? Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk

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dustdevil Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: WI, USA Zone4 Posts: 1,887	Too much sun?

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b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	They like shade at least good partial shade and plenty of water. Bill