Caladium Care || Planting-Growing-Storing Bulbs
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- How to grow caladiums! Caladiums are a great addition to the garden. These easy to grow plants offer an exotic and lush appeal wherever they are placed and they are fairly fuss free given a few simple needs are met. In this video I cover how to plant caladiums bulbs, how to grow caladiums, how to water caladiums, how to fertilize caladiums, how to grow caladiums indoors and how to winterize caladiums ( how to store caladium bulbs ) Oh, and pest and problems with caladiums. Growing caladiums is fairly simple outdoors. Give caladiums lots of water in a rich and well drained soil that is slightly acidic in the part shade to shade and they will do the rest. Growing caladiums indoors is a little bit more tricky as they prefer a warm environment. Caladiums as houseplants is a possibility though, just be more cautious with watering and give lots and lots of light. When planting caladium bulbs it is important to remember to only plant a bulb on it's side if you are planting very shallow! Planting a bulb sideways more than a couple inches below the soil will likely just kill it. In general when planting caladium bulbs, the flat side goes down, and the pointy side goes up. In the example in my video I had to plant them sideways because many of them were growing from the same side as their roots, which isn't normal but happens sometimes when bulbs are mass divided.... and done so sloppily. Like I said, growing caladiums indoors and/or growing caladiums as houseplants isn't as simple. The houseplant care is different from outside in that they wont want to be watered as often since the temperatures are cooler than the warmer temps they prefer to have. Storing caladium bulbs is easy! Just dig them up, clean them off ( dirt, roots and foliage ) allow to dry for a few days and store in a breathable container, place it in a dark and dry location for at least 12 weeks then replant. How to propagate caladiums is also simple. Typically it is easiest to just divide the bulbs every year or so, making sure to keep 3 eyes on each bulb. Caladiums can be grown from seed which can be harvested from the spent and dried flower heads on the plants. Caladiums are easy to grow and rewarding plants for the home and garden!
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Advice for indoors : you will likely need to stake the leaves of the medium and tall varieties. Put the stake before planting the tuber so you don't poke a hole in the tuber ( can make it rot ).
If the plant is already grown, sneak the stake(s) at the edge of the pot. Wonderful houseplant. When at rest, you can unpot and keep the tubers in a paper bag at 20°C ( room temperature ). Mine all grew back when I planted them in early April.
Very informative vid. I've been gardening for about 25 years, and seem to learn something new, Everytime I watch one of your vids. Love your channel.
Wow thank you so much, Felicia! 💚🌴💚🌴
I appreciate that you write stuff out in your description! Helps a ton!
I bought a pot of white and red ones. The white ended up having fungus knats, I think. I put it outside and sprayed it down. It’s died a couple times from lack of water but she always bounces back. The red one I’ve kept on my porch inside. Even with my cat eating a couple of her leaves she’s doing great. My cat has eaten so many house plants she should honestly be dead. She has a gut of steal. Do you ever have issues with your cats eating plants?
That's a great testament to how strong they are! Yes, my cats will eat any houseplant. That is part of the reason I keep most of my plants in my garage during winter. I have used pinecones to keep them out of the pots, works great! And spraying the plants with deterrents kind of helped, but eventually I just moved the plants out because I got tired of spraying them.
I am purchasing my first batch of caladiums and getting about 100 bulbs/tubers soon. They are mixed varieties but no names so it will be a complete surprise. I wanted to do a Caladium UA-cam growing project and wanted to send them out to some of my UA-cam buddies so that we could all grow them together and see what varieties we get. Are you in? If so Instagram me your address and as soon as I get them I will send some your way! PS I just ordered the Thai beauty online it is crazy insane! I can’t wait to get it!
Hey you! Of course! I'll dm you right now, what a great idea! Thai beauty is so pretty! Crazy timing btw! I was just looking at my calendars to decide when I should pot up and start my 'frog in blender' bulbs. Since I cant safely move the plants back out until late april or may I know I should wait till march, but I miss them and want them back in my life! 🤣😂😅
Yesss! I love caladiums! I got 2 bulbs not long ago and they are THRIVING. One is "White Christmas" which is HUGE and gorgeous, and the other i THINK is "Red Belly" but I don't remember. They're a lot smaller/shorter, more shoots, and the leaves are shiny. They're mostly green with red middles. Any ideas what they could be if not Red Belly? Thanks! Love the video as always. :)
Thank you! White Christmas is a cool one! That sounds like red belly to me, but there are over s thousand variations of caladiums so I can't say with certainty.
Caladiums are gorgeous here in the Caribbean Jeff and I plant them year round. Yes they take a rest sometimes and come back more beautiful. They are definitely a favourite of mine and they look great with Coleus and petunias. Thanks for the tips.....happy planting😊
Thank you Kim! Sounds gorgeous!
Jeff you made me want to try some caladium around an oak tree that gets morning sun and afternoon shade. I have mostly hostas there now. Your crotons are beautiful also. I enjoyed your video
Thank you! Oh that will look beautiful!
Beautiful 😍 going to be planting plenty in my garden next year, i have shade and sun
Great video. I loved it when you called the white Caladium ' Moonshine' instead of 'Moonlight'. I have a pot that I am growing inside this year that I stored overwinter. They grew outside last year.
Haha! I noticed that when I was editing. Woops! Thank you!
I like caladium plant very much they looking beautiful and give a colourful look to our garden very nice information Jeff good work and a big like to your beautiful garden👍👍👍
I pull mine up every year for winter storage and have noticed my white ones changed color. Have been wondering how that happened.
huh? That it very odd. Some of mine start off white or pale and as the season progresses and the heat moves in, they start to color up.
Can caladiums survive the Winter?
Thank you so much for this video, I really needed it. Saskatchewan isn't a place where anyone has even heard of Caladiums so as you can imagine mine weren't cheap, so I was quite worried about proper care. This was perfect and you made it very straight for me.
Thank you, Tracy! I'm glad the video was helpful. What varieties are you growing?
Thanks for all the info, your garden looks beautiful and fun! I love it❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! 😁😁😁🌴🌴🌴
Beautiful Caladium looks amazing 👍🏾, I also plant 🌱 a few myself.
Those are the healthiest, largest, most beautiful caladiums I've seen 😍😍😍 and I've been watching a whole lot of caladium videos lately lol. ❤
Wow, thank you
I got one that I keep as houseplant. Love it ! So this video is very useful, much appreciated. 🌴🌴🌴
Thank you!
Definitely one of my favs when it comes to the perfect explosion of color. As always, The Tropical Plant Party University, a phenomenal learning tool!!!
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🤣😂 thank you! Explosion of color is the perfect way to describe them!
how is it done please?
I love your garden at nighttime, daytime or anytime.
Thank you! Working on finishing up the night lighting this weekend!
@@TropicalPlantParty do you think you could do a video of it? That'd be awesome!
I know they say they should be planted in part sun to shade but mine always stretch to get sun. They grow best in containers here, they come back weak the second year if they are planted in ground (damn nematodes). You know they have a big Caladium festival in central Florida (Lake Placid), right? I think it is in a week or two.
Yeah, the ones under the Alexander plan are getting a lot of afternoon sun. ... they are also on drip which can make a difference. We will see how they do when temps get in the triple digits though. Caladium festival!? I want to go!
Great video on Caladium care, thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you so much!
Wow this is great info!! I live in zone 5 and have a caladium as a house plant. Now I know why she’s so deflated ..... she’s tired 😴 and needs a rest. I’m going to try your recommendations!!
Thanks so much!!!! 🌵❤️
I'm glad I was able to help! Yes, they typically do best when they can have atleast 8 weeks of dormancy. 😊
The one thing I learned from Rick's orchids is that there's mobile and immobile nutrients in plants not just orchids. So that's why I wait because I think the guy I used to listen to on the radio gardening show on Sundays also said leave the leaves on the plant until they're completely dried up. That's probably why he said that is because the mobile nutrients go back down into the bulb. When I bring mine into the house in the fall I enjoy them because they're already in pots not in the ground and when the leaves are completely dead and dry I cut them off and put them to rest. The other thing when I used to plant them in the ground if the soil gets below 60 degrees and it's rainy in August kind of rainy and cold they will start to rot in the ground and it's so hard to pull them out of the ground when they still look so pretty. You can also cut some of the leaves off and put them in a vase to enjoy. But I just did with the guy on the radio said lay them on the sidewalk and let them dry out same goes for amaryllis lay them on the sidewalk in the Sun let those mobile nutrients go back down into the bulk then cut the leaves off but... Apparently you've had great success with your way so it just proves there's more than one way what's that old saying to skin a cat I wonder where that saying came from sounds horrible! No wonder there were rats spreading the plague in Europe they didn't like cats very much! I hope your shoulder is healing well I keep you in my prayers
Thank you...I love caladiums but have not had much success,even in zone 8a/b
Beautiful garden thank you nice tips
Great video! Is it possible to grow these by leaves? Or is it only done through root division and bulbs?
This is my FA-------VORITE video on Caladium. Where do you buy yours? I found mine at Lowe's, Home Depot. This is awesome!! I love your edits
Thank you! I get the bags of bulbs from Sam's club. They get them in the winter and I just hold on to them until spring. If I wait they are gone and sold out long before it's time to plant them out. I got the large one from Walmart and the other two(frog in a blender and moonlight) from a local nursery. There are a lot of really cool variations out there!
@@TropicalPlantParty You're right, there's a lot of varieties. My stomach doesn't like the frog name though. I really liked it until you named it the blender thing🤢😷 Lol I saw Walmart has them still and elephant ear bulbs 50% off. I have a problem. I keep planting them instead of storing them🤦🏾♀️
haha! Yeah I hate that name, I don't know why they would do that. so gross!
These are some of my FAVORITES! i can't get enough. I was going to try planting with begonias and coleus.
Impatiens can get huge in the pots.
Your garden is stunning
some of mine too! Thank you, Jill!
Well Jeff I learn something new I didn't realize you could easily grow these from seed I always cut the flower off cuz someone told me that it takes energy away from making leaves to produce a mature seed set. But I guess we could even hand-pollinate them and that's how they get all these different varieties that we see every year. Might be kind of fun to try to grow them and see what happens
I got mine from Lowe's but they are leaning in all ways kinda looks sad.. I have it indoors whay should I do to keep it happy? Do they grow good "crowded"? It's a pink one
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i planted caladium bulbs imported them from amazon usa since 6 weeks in 30 celsus dgree peat moss soil and they didn't show up i tried to check them today and i found them started to show white staff similar to shown in picture but looking down to earth - should i flip them to look up or let them like that
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I need to add more caladium in my garden thanks for the tips! By the way your garden looks awesome!
Caladiums are a great addition to any garden! Thank you!
I just bought a caladium for my room I'm just hoping I can keep it alive it's so beautiful, do i have to cut it down and store it in the winter if I keep it inside?
Great info for beginners...✌💝 and non beginners to....lol. I have these all over love them so much!!!
They are great! Easy and fun plants that reward all season!
@@TropicalPlantParty yes they do. I know,I finally found the white ones in my area this year and wow. Love those!
Very beautifull.,.
Love your videos Jeff! 🥰 Your videos always lift my spirits up when my day isn’t going so well! I hope you have a great growing season for 2022! ❤️
You have a beautiful garden! Thank you so much for covering many of the issues that go on with Caladiums. I am just starting out with them so I can use all the info I can find. Have a great day.
Have a question do Caladium do better in Clay or Plastic containers. Thank you
I leave in ground multiple like rabbits on NC coast great bang for your buck !
Can anyone give some information on their flowers.... mine flowered
So beautiful and useful video. Tq for sharing.
So happy I found your channel!! Thank you for being so informative and detailed about the care of these plants!!
Great video. Very informative and helpful. I liked seeing the companion planting. Thank you!
I have some That were sold as house plants in really nice pots. Can they be grown in the house?
Hi. Great info. Can you tell where you buy your bulbs from? Also can you give names of the full sun caladuims.Thank you
I made a beautiful planter of Caladiums with beautiful white & pink petunias……thanks to you! I live in zone 6a-6b like you....can I bring the caladiums in for Winter?? Do I need a grow room with lights & humidity? My new winter project :)
Hi Kathleen! They are easiest to let go dormant in winter in a dry and dark spot in the house and then just put them back in the sun when it's starting to warm up in spring with a gentle drink of water.
Do you sell bulbs of caladium? From Philippines.
Great video but why do they lay over and not stand up?? Thanks
Zone 7 here.....I have a somewhat shady spot where I just planted Daffodil and would like to plant Caladium over top of them when the daffodil are finished for the season-- sometime in April or early May. Are caladium toxic to other plants nearby and how deep will their roots go? My research shows that daffodil bulb does not need much water after their leaves have expired.
I don't know about them being toxic to other plants but I have never had issues with that or read anything about it. They have fairly shallow roots, should do well above daffodils except they like a lot more water than the daffodils will need.
Beautiful plant, I cannot grow these outside, in other words I will never! grow them outside, and I'm too chicken to grow them inside, maybe someday when I have some grow lights I will attempt them indoors, they remind me of oxallis, they die off in the winter, but when it warms up mine go crazy. Thanks Jeff, as always your Caladiums are so beautiful and I love to see all of the gorgeous colors they are amazing. Have a great weekend I will see you next week, bye for now.
Haha! I agree, very similar to oxallis! good comparison!
Can the Florida moonlight handle north east window?
Can i buy that kinds of caladums...thanks
wow so beautiful ! hope to that kind of caladium
Thank you Jeff! Your video was very informative and you answered all my questions! I'm looking forward to using your tips when I get some Caladiums. The 2 types I really want is the Moonlight and the mostly/solid pink type (not sure of name) but would love a variety they are all so pretty! 😊🍃
Thank you julie! They are a lot of fun to grow!
I was thinking of buying some caladium bulbs now. I live in zone 6 and saw them on sale. Is this a bad idea? Will they just start growing and then it will be time to bring them in?
as long as they get 3 months of growth they should be fine. Would be ideal for them to get an entire growing season before going dormant, but they'll be alright. Fast growers so shouldn't be a problem.
Do you ever scar the eyes to get more foliage? I saw a gardener on Oklahoma Gardening do this and wondered if it really worked.
Never tried before but have heard of it working before. I really don't know much about that though. I'm sorry!
I just got my first bulbs on clearance from Lowe’s about 3 weeks ago & they are be-a-uuuut-iful 💚❤️🌿
They are great aren't they?
Tropical Plant Party I saw a couple plants at a grocery mart (I don’t frequent because it’s over priced) but I was curious on how much this incredible plants were & they were $40 🤦🏻♀️😱 I put it down & said oh no not for that! It’s pretty but nope not that pretty! So when I saw the clearances bulbs I saw caladiums 🥰 I think they were maybe $8 so I thought clearance $2 & I bought 2 packages 💃🏻🕺🏻
Do you have any pointer on where to get seeds of these Caladiums? Would be fun to get these plants here as well, but alas I have to start with seeds.
Hey Kenneth! I've never looked for seeds for sale before. I'm sorry! I think its less common because growers try keep the plants true to their mix so seeds might throw off the consistency.
♥️..i love caladiums...but it is pretty hard to find these plants in Berlin...especially the beautiful pink/green one😍🤯
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Lovely plants ... You do good ....
Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing this info!
thank you, very informative
Love this video! Thank you for posting.. Can I please live in your garden?!
Lol! Thank you!
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Amazing video, but you didn’t say how often should we water the bulbs, can you pls let us know how often should we water them when they are still bulbs. THANK YOU 🙏🏿
Evenly moist soil. However often you need to water them to keep the soil moist but not wet. If they are dormant bulbs being stored for winter, don't water them at all.
Tropical Plant Party thank you sooooo much for your reply, truly appreciate it 🌼
Hey, great info. I'm wondering if I can do the bulb storage thing with my alocasia amazonica? I've amassed a lot of plants and I need a winter plan lol.
You can. Watch Plants 'n things by Bill B. He is very knowledgeable about all the elephant ears, etc.
@@tammyfinch6735 Nice! I'll look that up! :)
I like your garden! Plants are really beautiful.
Thank you!
Thanks so much for this, it's so very helpful. I absolutely love all of your caladiums, they're so beautiful, so colorful! Caladiums add such beauty to a garden, don't you think? One of the best parts of the video was "It helps to have level shelving". I swear, I ROFL! I wish so badly that I could grow Creeping Jenny, I think it's so pretty and adds so much. I don't know why I keep killing it??? I reckon I'll just have to live vicariously through you. lol Thanks so much for all of your videos, your hard work in making them, all of your knowledge, trying to help people like me (who can't even grow Creeping Jenny or Song of India! lol), for just being your wonderful self and for so much more! You teach me so much with each video. 😁💜
Thank you! Oh yes I agree, caladiums are adelight! Are you growing the creeping jenny inside or out? They typically are pretty fuss green weird!
@TropicalPlantParty I've tried growing them both inside and outside. I bought 11 of them this spring but wasn't able to pay much attention to them - or any of my plants, really - because my husband was in the hospital for over a week with heart and kidney failure. When they all died I figured it was because of neglect. So I bought 11 more of them when he came home (Both times from WalMart. I don't know if that may be part of the problem, but thought I'd mention it.). I was able to pay more attention to them then, but I'll be doggone if those didn't die, too. I only water my plants when the soil is dry up to my first knuckle (or is it my 2nd one? It's my middle knuckle, whichever number you call it. lol). Also, I use Espoma Organic Indoor Houseplant Food (liquid fertilizer - I love it! :) ) every 1 - 2 weeks, or once a month, depending on the plant. Inside, I had them in a kinda medium indirect light. Outside, they were in bright indirect light. Maybe they just hate me? LOL TIA for any advice you can offer me. 😊
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I love watching your video your plants is a maze keep up the good work
Thank you!
Caladium is my favourite plant & u have a wonderful collection. Keep it up. The information u provided is remarkable
They are beautiful sir
If the Calladium is in a pot, can I just cut the foliage off and leave them indoors in the same pot?
This is such a fun video! I love the Frog in the Blender.
Thank you! That one is probably my favorite, they got huge last year!
Okay, I have some of these in two pots/planters. They were small when I purchased them but now they have grown quit large and are beginning to droop from the weight? Do I need to replant them in a larger pot, or just prop them up with something? I don't know what I should do at this point. Any advise would be helpful. Thanks!
I pull them right before frost and have used them for years..too easy to do so I just can’t let them freeze
Very simple and easy! When they were under my maple some years I'd just let them go because 5he ground there was so hard to pull them from without ripping up the bulbs. In the pots they'll just pull right out.
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those are very pretty
Hope you are doing Beyer better.... to the caladium video from last year... My caladiums made it through the winter just dormant in their pots that I bought them in or planted the bulbs in. Just put a little water every once in awhile on the top inch of the soil so the caladiums didn't think they were growing in a desert or sleeping or taking their winter hibernation in the desert... By the way when I substituted after teaching for 32 years in a second grade class they were studying the desert. Did you know that desert animals hibernate in the summer? I was almost 70 years old at the time and I was surprised delightedly to find out I learned something new that day really new! Oh well back 2 caladiums... They are one of my favorite summer plants besides the alocasia and colocasia which AR related to caladium... Thanks for this video no matter how much you know about a plant somebody else might teach you something new and you always do thanks! God bless and hope you're doing better
In what part of the world do you live? I live in zone 7, I think, (it’s the highest zone in the U.S.) we stay kinda dry here and the native soil is mostly clay but I’ve added plenty great organic soil. I’m just not sure if they will be happy enough outside.
Thanks
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Love your video! I just bought my first caladium about a month ago. Love this beautiful plant. Mine is the beautiful green with burgundy veins. I live in the mid section of NC and these beauties would never survive the winter. Had the pot outside and moved them in recently, about a month ago, September 28th and it did great and then wilted and the stems would bend and seemed broken. I noticed today that one leaf had a white mold looking fugus on one of the plants. I took it outside and decided to split up the plant. To my surprise I found some bulbs not attached to the existing plant and separated the living, (hopefully) into 2 separate pots and of course set beside each other. Plants love to be together, as you know:) I have a 22 year old Philodendron that has produced so many babies and they love to touch each other. Makes since:). Now I have replanted the caladium into 2 different pots and I have compost soil that I used as a base and co mingled the existing soil and it had some misc. roots with soil. I found about 4 bulbs, maybe more but did not want to manipulate the soil too much. They have roots but there is a dark orange color on the bulb, is that normal?. What should I do? One is really big, looks like a ginger root. LOL. Should I plant each in a planter and hope for the best?
Happy you're talking about caladiums it is my first year growing them. Garden zone 4B I will be bringing them in the house.
My Caladium is an indoor plant. I live in an area where it is fairly warm year round. My plant is starting to droop. Should I cut the foliage and leave the tubors in the pot? Or should I remove them from the pot and put them in perlite? Also, when should I replant?
Thank you for the information this is my first year planting them so this help me a lot
Beautiful caladiums! the light pink and green one is called sweetheart caladium. I have one and it's leaves are turning brown :(. not sure what's wrong with it
I am just getting into tropicals particularly Caladium. This video was so helpful thank you!
I don't usually comment on the videos here. But I have to say your video was very informative and helpful! Thank you
Great info! Beautiful garden!🌺
Thank you!
wonderful
The way you say beautiful is just beautiful
haha! Thank you!
If you can exchange with me be will great. I’m in Thailand we have many caladium color
When you store caladiums for winter and put the pot inside, do you water at all? Or just less water?
I don't water them at all.
@@tonygray9174 thank you for the reply! I will try the same
👏👏👍 amazing information in this video...everything i wanted to know 🙂
Do you ever put moss or mulch on the top of the soil for indoor caladiums to help them retain moisture? I’ve been debating it
Lindos Caladium, amo, tenho algumas espécies deles 🌼🏵️🥰❤️
They are on sale potted up right now..bargins
Just saw a bunch at Walmart on clearance... I had to remind myself that I have 70 or them under that palm that I don't even know what to do with. 🤣
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