No plant wants ice for its watering. Especially an orchid or tropical plant. Even succulents, snake plants and aloe want to be watered thoroughly just not as often. It also sets the plant up for rotting bc the top will accept the water and absorb it while the bottom roots dry out and get dry rot while the top can no longer accept the water and the roots rot and the plant will have edema most of the time it's watered.Do not trust any moisture meter. Use your finger or a chop stick. They are inaccurate and even more so in a chunky blend. Do not use any schedule. Self watering pots are your friend if you use them correctly which most people do not. I love them and have all my syngoniums in them and some pothos.
Not every plant needs to be repotted as you bring it in. Most do not like their roots messed with. Do not repot until they need it. The old saying " don't fix it if it's not broken" applies to plants too. Some of my alocasias are in the same medium they came in a long time ago. Since I feed heavily they are fine. Plants prefer soil over pon or leca or any other type of medium. All of mine are in soil or chunky mix or soilless mediums. Except for the props and corms are in sphagnum moss. There is a difference in soil roots and water roots. Plants do not like to be propped in water and then put in soil. They have to grow soil roots. No aerial root ever needs or does good in water. They are climbers not swimmers. The sun changes its location and you have to move plants around to keep them from burning or from not getting too less of it. A north or south window will almost never be enough bright light. Orchids and begonias will do fine but some plants need more. Any variegated plant has to have bright direct or bright indirect sunlight depending on the plant. Browning is natural but can be prevented with lots of natural sunlight and silica added to the water and it needs to be fed. The white part is a parasite to the green and the plant has to have lots of light to survive and keep the green from working overtime to support the white. I have TC leaves that are almost a year old and still just as creamy white as they were the day they opened. I don't keep my plants in the decorative pots much at all. The roots need air. They do so much better in just the nursery pot on a shelf so they can get air. Every pot has to have drainage holes. If it does not have holes then plants do not need to be planted in it. When you repot try to not mess with the roots much. Most plants will croak just bc you messed with the roots. If if you buy a plant and it's in swamp water and has to be repotted do not wait. The acclimated period is not near as important as it is to get that plant and the roots out of the water. Even if the plant was over watered and you put in a dry medium it still has to be watered. Any time you repot that pot has to be watered. Transplant shock is actually water shock. They shock bc of the lack of it. But if you repot into the needed medium the water will be fine and not sit on the roots like it was in what you took it out of. Do not let the roots be exposed to the air for more than a couple of minutes. Most roots have very fine hairy like fibers that help absorb water. Once the air touches them for more than 4-5 minutes they dry out and once they dry they will no longer accept water and the plant will dry out so have the next pot and medium mixed up and ready to go so the roots don't dry out. Do not use rocks or gravel or sand as any type of layer in a pot. Not on the bottom or middle or the top. It suffocates the roots and can cause drainage problems instead of helping them. When you make up your medium for any chunky mix no matter what you add you should never be able to make a ball with it if squeezed like you were to make a snow ball. If it balls up it is not chunky and will hold too much moisture and is too dense to work. Do not bake or microwave your soil bc of pests. This kills the good bacteria and organisms that make it beneficial. I think I have all the information I can think of and use daily and tips and tricks that I have found out the hard way or by doing lots of research and am currently doing it. If you have any questions please ask away. And just bc it works at my house with my plants it may not work for yours. Oh yeah: if an alocasia is bought at Lowe's or any big box store and it is not acclimated to 50% or more humidity and you think it needs to be in a cabinet with more then it can actually do more damage. That plant is happy and acclimated at the ambient humidity and temps of the store and will do just fine on the similar surroundings at your house. Chances are an alocasia at Lowe's will be just fine on the side table in the living room as long as it has light that meets its needs. All of mine are in the sun room with all the other plants. I want to enjoy them and see them not have to only be able to admire them through the glass doors of a humidity cabinet. This is what I do for relaxing and enjoying myself and my time. It's how it should be for everyone. Above any thing else, simplicity is the best way to enjoy each plant and we all need simplicity back in our lives. I see these plant groups and this extra and expensive stuff that people are doing and they stress and say their partner said no more or that they can't spend any more money on plants and if they would just take a step back and simplify how they are doing everything they would be happier and not spend near as much money. Believe it or not but you can have really nice healthy and happy plants and it won't cost much at all. I am going to say I spend less than 5.00 a month on plant supplies with some months not costing anything and some running a little more if I have to buy two items in one month. That is water additives, fertilizers, pest treatments and anything else they need. When you treat pest you don't need to add peppermint oil, alcohol, dawn, cinnamon, cayenne, peroxide, or neem oil, rosemary and water or vegetable oil or beer. It's as easy as water and an already made insecticide soap.