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After the response to my last post, a few people asked to see the full cabinet, so I cleaned up the bottom shelf and took some proper photos. This is the whole setup, plus the plants living on top of it.

It’s almost entirely Alocasia, with one Philodendron melanochrysum mixed in.

Everything in my collection is grown in semi-hydro using Soil Ninja Semi Hydro Coarse, so no soil anywhere here. Pots are generic self-watering setups. For feeding, I use my own custom nutrient recipes that I developed over time and adjusted around how my plants actually respond.

Lighting is Barrina T8 Grow Lights on a 13 hour photoperiod. There’s no humidity control in the Alocasia cabinet, but both cabinets run a Dinural heating cycle with gradual temperature increases and decreases through the day and night.

Everything is also under CCTV, which means I can check on the plants anytime and casually watch new growth happening in real time. Slightly unhinged behaviour perhaps, but effective.

The goal has always been stable conditions, strong roots, and steady growth rather than chasing gimmicks.

I’m also sharing my Anthurium cabinet separately, so if that interests you, have a look through my profile.

This Alocasia Silver Dragon Aurea started as a tiny TC and hit its first flower in about 7.5 months. It has now produced 6 flowers in 14 months.

Grown in coarse semi-hydro substrate in a controlled cabinet with stable diurnal temperature control, humidity, airflow, and consistent feeding. I really think the lack of setbacks made the difference here.

It did start showing signs of reverting for a while, but the newest leaf is giving me some hope that the variegation is not done yet.

Still kind of insane to look back at where it started.

Thought I’d share this one because I’m genuinely impressed with how hard it pushed after being cut back.

This Philodendron Splendid was chopped and extended, then over the next 7 months it climbed another 2.2 ft and now needs to be chopped again. Largest leaf on the plant reached 71 cm.

It’s grown in semi hydro with a moss pole, kept in regular living room conditions around 22C and roughly 50% humidity.

I see a lot of people assume you need cabinet conditions or greenhouse humidity for strong growth, but stable care seems to matter more than chasing perfect numbers.

Would be interesting to hear how everyone else is growing their Splendid and what conditions gave you the best results.