I would suspect they would grow if you can give em what they
need...........I sent a bunch of small EE and Taro to a lady on Long
Island earlier this year and from what she told me she took some to
their cabin in the Pocono Mountains in Eastern PA, and all are doing
just fine and are about 3 feet in height with leaves of a foot or
better, so there really is no reason with warm weather and sunshine
they would not do ok. You can always bring them in in the fall before
the frost, as the first frost will knock em down., and make them
pretty mushy like old lettuce.........On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:36:32
-0600, Wilmdale wrote:

===~Roy~ wrote:
===
===Lots of sunshine, heat and water will make them grow fast...
===
===We have some aorund our hot tub patio area, and every winter we cut
===them down to the ground. They are better than 5 or 6 inches in
===diameter at the ground level. Every spring about late April you will
===see a small bud form off the old root, and the next thing they are
===over 2 or 3 feet tall and multiplying. Right now they have leaves
===approx 2 feet long, and are well over 4 foot tall.......By mid July
===they will have leaves better than 3 feet in size and provide shade
===over one side of the hot tub and also the table on the patio........
===
===The ones growing in and around my pond obtain 3 or 4 feet in no time
===and every fall I cut them down to water level or below............and
===right now its a thick deep forest of Taro and elephant
===ears...........in dire need of thinning out..
===
===Heat and humidity and lots of water............and we have never
===fertilized them
===
===I also have them weighted down (small plants) and have them fully
===submerged in various 55 and greater aquariums, planted bare root, and
===they do fine that way as well. Really neat looking seeing elephant
===ears with leaves all spead out under water........As they outgrow the
===tank, I just snip off the larger stems and leaves, as they keep
===putting new out constantly.
===
===On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:20:42 GMT, Elaine T
===wrote:
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===
======G & K Meyer wrote:
====== I put in a number of elephant ear plants a few weeks ago and one is doing
====== nothing, and the others just have a small sprout like piece coming out the
====== top. How long do these take to really get going I hoped for some nice shade
====== for the pond from them.
======
====== Thanks for any help.
======
======I have some taro in the ground (I'm in zone 10). For the most part,
======they're pretty slow growers. Mine only seem to add a few leaves a year.
===
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===
===Humm..... I wonder how they would do in zone 5? Anyone in zone 5 every
===grown elephant ears successfully?
===W. Dale


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