Ask-a-Dave's-Gardener: Overwintering Elephant Ears, 3 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Here is a sticky on storing EE's for winter that I need to go through one of these days.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/773186/

I do find spider mites are common in winter on EE's if I keep the bulbs under lights and try to keep them growing. Sometimes I wonder if it is best to just let them go dormant for winter as I did last year on my two largest containers (22 inch and 20 inch tucked away in a storage room in the basement with no lights and no water). These two containers had an assortment of Alocasia and Colocasia in them. The smaller pots under lights had mixed results - some rotted and some came through in fairly good shape.