i've been reading about it on hardytropicals.co.uk in aroid forum. basically if you put the pot on a heat mat and bag it to incerease humidity - it'll wake up. soil should be at 70F minimum. 70F-90F is fine. i am looking into using regular heating pad for now to wake up the bulbils that i harvested. will be also potting my alocasia polly tubers too soon. but usually people use heating 'propagation' mats.

i would do it when the leaves turn color.. meaning the leaves are shut down ... and ready to fall off ... late summer.. means you will waste a month or two of the leaves making food ... for storage they will continue to grow roots until the ground freezes .. or perhaps all winter for wherever you are in z6 ... some suggest you plant oaks in spring.. so root work might be better in early april or so ... maybe earlier for wherever you are ... BTW.. where are you .. lol ... z6 is a very large swath of the US ... replant according to the link ... especially if dealing with clay ... ken https://sites.google.com/site/tnarboretum/Home/planting-a-tree-or-shrub ps: where are you

Mike, I don't know if one CAN put off dormancy, if a plant is programmed to do that by nature. Here's a link to a Grower who apparently grows a lot of Alocasias. https://www.ohiotropics.com/2019/02/21/growing-alocasia-amazonica/ At the end of the link it looks like one can email questions to him. I read about 1/2 the article & didn't see him address dormancy, but pls check it out. Looks like this guy really knows Alocasias.

In New York I grew tons of brugmansias, storing them in the basement over the cold winters. I‘m wondering now if I could do something similar here in St. Petersburg Florida for B. sanguinea but instead over the hot summer months. My purple datura metels stay outside but go nearly leafless over the summer here because of the heat. They begin growing actively again fall into early summer. The seeds also wait until fall to start coming up. Its on average around 70 for a high in winter, and 60 for a low, cooler during a cold front. I don’t get any frost most winters. When I have, its been a very light frost, not a killing frost so my tropicals stay outdoors year round. Humidity and dew points are high over night here. It doesn’t rain often in winter but everything is dripping in condensation each winter morning. Fog is a regular occurrence winter mornings.