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Glad you liked the video Holly. Since seeing it I'm tempted to try sikkimensis. M. basjoo does well here. You might want to post to the Aroids forum about your Portadora's as they were bred by Lari Ann. You might want to refer to them as Alocasia x portora though, as that's how she named them. Here's the thread: The thread "New plants at Aroidia Research" in Philodendrons, Elephant Ears, and Other Aroids forum

LariAnn said:I wish I could share them now, but most pictured are the only ones I have (only ones that exist?). Besides that, when I did my first two crosses in the late 1970s, I did share them quickly. The thanks I got was that both were placed into tissue culture production by "friends" without my knowledge or consent. The result is that now my plants are being sold worldwide and I do not receive even one penny of compensation! So I hope you will understand if I am not anxious to let these new babies out into the open market without some kind of protection. I don't think it unreasonable that I should receive some compensation for the work I have done in developing these new plants!

If anyone has a different point of view on this, I'd love to read it here!

LariAnn

She's talking about Portadora here I believe. I've read in many places that Alocasia tubers can rot if wet when dormant. Anyway, I'd love to see just how big you could get your Portadoras.

As to the bananas I'll try to find out how they would do wet all winter.