Dahlias in Hawaii?

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I wonder if in Hawaii I could get away with just lifting and dividing the tubers and then replanting, or do they absolutely require the chilling time? The really successful growers I knew in Oregon stored the cleaned tubers wrapped in newspaper in paper sacks or packed in wood shavings in their garages. There are all these backyard dahlia fanciers who breed and sell dahlias, you can walk through their gardens and place orders for the spring. We got super carried away one year and ended up with over 25 different varieties. We lifted the tubers in two years and they were bigger than the biggest sweet potatoes you've ever seen.

Carol