look at 'alocasia bulbils' post on the 2nd page - i documented what i did to wake up pups and also the tubers.
in short the best info i got was on the british forum hardytropicals.co.uk. the guy there applied heat and lots of moisture - in spring , mind you! to wake them up.
...so I put it on a heating mat and when it did not sprout, kept pouring more hot water on it! and jacked up the heat too...

Here's the link.

Carol

Here is a link that might be useful: alocasia bulbils

That's really weird ... Makes me wonder how it gets the trigger in nature.

Thanks folks!

alocasias habitat is steamy jungle - with 100% humidity and daily drenches, temps of 95f or more. so what's weird?
lots of tubers/corms need bottom heat and moist conditions to wake up. it's the temp of soil that matters most, not the temp of outside air.
if you tuber is very small it might not wake up once dormant.
it is advised to grow baby tuber for sev years until it is sufficiently large to survive dormancy (that's true of many plants).
they usually go dormant when temps drops below 65F. so keeping it out below that will def induce dormancy.
there is no reason to try to wake it up now - you should wait till spring. keep it just barely moist, almost dry , but not too cold - it might rot. better to keep it in soil as is and then repot in spring.

You need to remember you're operating in an extremely cold climate, there's no Alocasia in nature there. Although some species do extend into cold areas, they're areas you'd still consider hot. Also, with the addition of the word "amazonica" into the name it becomes a bit misleading, Alocasias come from Asia/Australia and not from South America. So if nature doesn't provide the heat for you, as Petrushka suggests, you have to provide it yourself.

petrushka, the temps mentioned in the waking the corms up post exceeds the jungle temps you mentioned -- and it is those temps from the post that surprised me.

"they usually go dormant when temps drops below 65F. so keeping it out below that will def induce dormancy"

Neither the baby nor momma have ever been outside. I grew both the baby and momma indoors -- so it surprised me that the one went dormant but the other did not. (Nor had temps in my apt gotten that low.)

R: ultra high temps .
what can i say, the guy was successful and my 3 rather large tubers lost most of the leaves, one all, two had just 1 leaf and those were yellowing. i had nothing to loose.
i had pups growing in the same pot with mama twice - they would never have more then 1 small leaf at a time.
if you looked at my 'bulbils' posts - you saw how large the new leaves became on pups - 6-7" in 7oz cups! i kept them on the heating mat and bagged for 95% humidity until mid-aug, for almost 5 months! it helps to develop good roots and they grow much faster.
it takes them a lo-ong time to wake up even with heat.
i was concerned about hi temps too, so my temps weren't as hi as suggested in the beginning and nothing was happening.
i had to up the heat the 2nd mo AND put more HOT water before i saw roots poking out of the perlite.
dunno - it worked and i'm happy. now i know what to do if big mama goes dormant.
to think, i was ready to chuck it - which is what most people do, once all leaves decline.

I'm not a big fan of petruska's method, it seems extreme and risky, cooking bulbs in a bag...

There's no argument from me that it worked tho!

I prefer gentler methods myself...if I was asleep, and someone poured blazing hot water on me...I'd wake up, but I'd throw a fit once I woke up!

These alocasia don't seem to mind tho! Atleast not from what I've seen'

They are very slow to wake up once dormant! No doubt about that!

I too would caution you not to wake it up yet, unless you can artificially provide ample heat and LIGHT then you will only be stressing the plant worse, and likely sealing its fate...

I'd wait until march or April and start uping the heat and moisture, if all goes well the plant might reappear in may or June lol...

As to tropics reference of the name amozonica...there's apparently no correct name for this plant, poly is wrong, it's not a polyploid, amazonicas wrong, it comes from Asia, Alocasia mortefontanensis is name given to it when the original cross was made, over 100 years ago!

For those who haven't read it, this link I added maybe helpful! It's an interesting read either way!

I try my best to not get hung up on names of plants, I like the plant, ill grow it!
I might name it Cindy or frank so I know who I'm talking about...

Here is a link that might be useful: Exotic rainforest

If it is like caladium, you can't skip an entire growing season and have them survive. Amaryllis bulbs, yes. You can keep them dormant over a year and easily wake them up and carry on like nothing happened. They keep sooooo much reserve energy in that bulb. But caladium? No. Keep them dormant for more than a year and you have dead bulbs. I don't know whether this plant can be kept sleeping through a second winter and still be awakened next spring. ???

Carol

It'll grow right through the year here but then can go dormant for no apparent reason anytime. Dormancy can also go longer than one year, it seems to go according to its own time.