On 21 Sep 2004 10:12:28 -0700, (Lt. Kizhe Catson)
wrote:

===It'll be frost-time fairly soon here (Ottawa), so I'm planning what to
===do. In past years I've kept my Black Magic Taro awake, in a small
===aquarium under grow-bulbs (interesting factoid: the deep dusky colour
===only appears under sunlight; under artificial light the leaves are
===dark green with only the veins showing maroon).
===
===However, I divided it this year, so I now have three healthy pots and
===can afford to experiment (ie. risk losing one). So: can taro be
===overwintered in a dormant state, and if so how? Should it be kept wet
===or dry, and at what temperature?
===
===And of course the followup Q is: how do I wake it up in Spring? I
===have a sunroom which would be good for "hardening off" (if that's
===something you can even do to taro).
===
===-- Kizhe


Another thing about the black taro is when it gets really ot outside
it also turns green and looks like the regular green taro. Our black
taro turns green n the middle of the summer up until it starts to cool
down and then it starts coming out black again. The leaves in the
shady areas stay black most of the time. here we just let it clump up
and get mushy and pull the stalks off as it will take up again in
spring where it left off the previous year. They sell dry taro
tubers, so I would assume if you dug it up and washed it, and placed
it in a plastic bag or a container filled with dry peat and place it
in a dark cool spot it will be right for next years go.
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