Re: caladiums

a 6 inch pot from the nursery usually has three 3 corms--and by the time the season really gets here, they are overgrown. caladiums are very forgiving, however; you can probably plant as many as you want in a pot. but if you plant a lot, you'll be watering them hourly in august.

i only have one growing in a pot. last year i planted a 3-corm 6-inch pot nursery buy in a 12 inch pot. they have just started to come back, so it's a bit early to tell how crowded or not they will be this year. i suspect they will be good for another year or two in that pot. then i'll divide them and start over.


At 08:59 PM 5/21/03 +0000, you wrote:
I was just thinking it was safe to plant my caladiums when we got a snow
shower on Saturday. Piled up an inch of slush in 20 minutes, then melted off
within an hour. Temps went from 60-70 to 30-40 over the same few minutes.
Warmer every day so maybe I can plant them this weekend.
Jim, I haven't grown these before. How many corms per 15 inch pot would you
recomend(sp?)?
Judy B
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From: "Island Jim" <jsinger@igc.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: [CHAT] caladiums


> they're back. our summer color has arrived. and some of them will knock
> your sock off. i've got one, growing out of a bed of macho fern, that i'm
> sure georgia o'keefe would have immortalized had she seen it. bought a new
> one last night, incidentally, that is very pale pink and green with a lot
> of white. i plan to get it and the rose apple planted on memorial day.
>
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