Keeping Caladium Bulbs Over Winter

You can replant into pots in late winter or early spring but wait to plant garden beds until after the soil temperature warms above 60 degrees and.

Keeping caladium bulbs over winter. Caladium care over winter you don t have to do anything special for dormant caladiums in winter. Caladiums can also be grown and stored in containers over winter. More than 20c 68f the bulbs will start growing. Lift the bulbs roots and all into a box or take the potted plants from your garden to store them undercover over winter.

Keep them stored at a temperature between 50 to 60 degrees fahrenheit in a dry environment. How to store tender bulbs over the winter tuberous begonias are hardy to zone 10. Replant the bulbs once all signs of frosts are over. Keeping them dry in a cool frost free location is key to having healthy ready to plant tubers next spring when frost is no longer a threat.

Caladiums grow well in pots and garden beds. In all but the warmest hardiness planting zones many summer and fall flowering bulbs corms rhizomes and tubers will not survive a cold winter. If they get too much moisture during the winter they will rot. Gardeners in cold winter regions can preserve their of elephant ear alocasia spp colocasia spp.

And xanthosoma spp and caladium caladium spp plants by lifting the bulb like tubers when the growing season ends and storing them inside over the winter. An unheated garage may be too cold. Spread tubers out so that they do not touch each other. Loosely pack the tubers in dry peat moss sphagnum moss or vermiculite or place them in a mesh orange or onion bag.

Store the bulbs in a dry warm place at around 10c 50f to 15c 60f below this the bulbs will get damaged. Caladium bulbs need a rest during every winter.