jay..thanks for your thoughts!..last summer at a garden center I asked about EEs..they didn't have any..the guy working there was friendly..as we talked he showed me pics of his EEs and I showed him mine..he had alocasias with very upright leaves..a nice size but it didn't seem GIGANTIC..but it could've gotten a lot bigger by the end of summer..I've seen several posts about Thai Giants that didn't make it over the winter :-( I successfully overwintered 2 black colocasias last year and now that you mention it they were in fairly small pots..remember I repotted them because the corms were coming out of the soil?..now they're in big pots and I brought them in again..hope they don't rot..since being inside several leaves are yellowing and dying down..I expected that..I do have some peat moss and big brown paper bags..sit it upright or lay it flat?

in his picture they were a darker green than yours but looked just like that from what I remember..he said they were "over 5 feet tall"..I think he meant from the ground to the leaf tip..your pot DOES look small for such a big plant..I hope my repotted colocasias do ok in their new bigger pots..I've heard that same line of reasoning about hosta in pots..in a big pot with a smaller plant too much soil holds too much water and rots the roots..yikes I hope I'm not moving them to a smaller pot in the middle of winter..kidding..too much hassle to do that..I need to remember not to overwater..

I've been putting mine upright in bags but they don't stay upright unless I put a bunch of corm-filled bags together in a mover-style shipping box. Or, I put them larger bags in an empty pot. But I still need to push the pot against something so it doesn't fall over. Keeping them upright allows for a more uniform covering of peat moss on the corm.

My Alocasias got a yellow tinge after the first few upper 30 degree nights. My largest Calidora was 68" (5'-8") with a 35" leaf. I measured it yesterday before digging it out.

Your EE's overwintered better than mine if I recall correctly.

jay..I was thinking a tall kind of narrow pot with peat moss with the bulb upright..a cushion of peat moss on the bottom of the pot..I had great (beginner's?) luck overwintering last year..multiple EEs stored in newspaper and boxes, 2 in pots, curcumas in pots and caladiums in pots..out of everything the caladiums did the worst..not huge losses but some pots came up with fewer leaves..I dug around in the pots later and found rotted corms..my caladiums are still in pots in my garage (not cold 60°) waiting on me to decide whether to dig and store in peat moss..this will be settled soon..freezing temps will be here in a few days..

forgot to say his pic was in shade..yours is a lot sunnier..

The Calidora EE in the small pot above in an earlier post didn't make it indoors. The leaf began to droop, the petiole began to shrivel, and fungus gnats flew out of the bottom of the pot whenever I moved it. When I threw it in my compost pile, I noticed half of the roots died but some new ones were also growing.

Now I have no potted EE's indoors for the winter. If I do bring any EE's in next winter, I'll let them acclimate to their pots outdoors for several months first.

sorry your potted alocasia didn't make it..there was a post from someone with a rotting alocasia asking for help..did you see it?..

these were taken a few days ago..my black EEs are thinning out..I've removed some leaves..I left the stems to dry naturally..the leaves were so dry you could crumble them with your hand..new leaves are coming..the alocasia is in a small pot temporarily sitting in a "planter box" in my entryway..the other pots have caladiums..that plastic bag has decorative rock..I want to remove the planter box and get a new floor..I've never used this box at all..the stains (water?) are from previous owners..I like growing EEs in pots..next year all of mine will be in pots..but I admit they do well in the ground..