Indoor Caladium Winter

If they re outside wait until the leaves die back and mulch over them before the first frost.

Indoor caladium winter. Flowering and developing seeds is any flowering plant s priority number one. As such they need to be brought indoors in northern climates and will usually die back in winter even in warmer regions. Dig up the caladium tubers in fall before the leaves have lost all their color and before the first frost. If you grow caladiums in containers instead of in the ground you may bring your pots indoors when nighttime temperatures begin to dip below 60 f where they may thrive as houseplants.

Caladiums are frost tender plants so they require special care in order to survive the winter months in regions where temperatures drop down to or below freezing. Many gardeners try caladiums as indoor plants. This is all well and good as the tubers from which the foliage is born require some rejuvenating rest. Indoors or out caladiums are a seasonal plant with foliage in the summer and a rest period in the autumn or winter.

Tubers of mature caladium can be divided. The caladium plant prefers indirect light or moderate shade indoors. They require a period of dormancy over the winter months so hold off on watering once they stop growing and winter dormancy begins. Caladium sun or shade.

Their rest period isn t determined by temperature or light cycle but by how long the plant has been growing. If you live in an area with a warm climate you can probably leave your caladium tubers in the ground over winter. Make sure that each new tuber section has at least one growing site. Caladiums grow from bulbs that become dormant after the growing season.

Flowers are not caladium s main attraction and they will rarely flower indoors belonging to araceae family its flowers have typical look similar to other family members as peace lily spathiphyllum or dumb canes dieffenbachia actually in case it does develop a flower the advise is to remove it.