Can anyone advise me on how to overwinter my Colocasia esculenta? I have a smallish one in a pot that I'd like to keep for next year. I tried to overwinter one a few years ago in my unheated (and dark) garage, and I think the frost got it. As I recall, I let it die back, and then left it pot and all in the garage. I'm thinking now maybe I should have dug the tuber up and kept it somewhere slightly warmer. That's the problem with my place, really cold garage, or warm house. Any thoughts?
I have a couple of pots that I overwinter each winter. I put them in our basement's furnace room - not heated as warm as the remainder of the house, but not COLD at all, either. I just lug the pots down there after I've cut off the foliage, and they just sit....I only give them a couple of 'sips' of water all winter, so that the bulbs don't completely dry out. Sometimes they'll keep growing on....but I just leave that growth and cut it off in the spring before I take them outdoors again. Hope that helps!
Well that is helpful advice, but I don't have a basement. We have a crawl space, but it does not have windows, and so would be alright it I can successfully send the plant to sleep somehow. That's why I'm thinking that digging the tuber up might be my only option for what kind of conditions I have...
