Alocasia Update: Is it dead?

Here is a quick update on the Variegated Alocasia I tried to save a while back.

If you look at the photo, it honestly looks pretty dead. There's only one leaf left, and it looks super withered and yellow. I know most people would have cut it off by now to make it look nicer.

But I'm keeping it on purpose. Even though it looks ugly, the plant is slowly pulling all the remaining energy and nutrients out of that dying leaf and storing it back into the corm (the bulb). I want to give it every bit of energy it can get to survive.

And it seems to be working! Since I moved it to LECA and put it under a grow light, I can actually see what's happening through the clear pot. Yesterday, I spotted some healthy white roots pushing through the clay balls.

So even though it looks like a sad stick right now, there's definitely life happening underneath. Fingers crossed.