Propagation: Ornamental Sweet Potatoes, 0 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Lala_Jane, Last year was my first year for Caladiums I only over wintered them last winter we will see how I do this year. I had 2 large pots 2 at my mom's house 2 at my daughter Jens and 2 at my house. Plus I had some in window boxes. In the fall just about this time we took all the pots into the houses and stopped watering them. Mine were stored in an upstairs room under my growing tables. It is a pretty warm room as it is right over the mud/utility room with the stove. The other pots were put in their basements both of which are heated. Early last spring we all pulled out the pots and started to water them and they all grew pretty well. I'm going to do the same thing again this year but next spring I will re-pot them with new soil.
All the bulbs in the window boxes were pulled out let lay for a couple of days and then put into brown paper bags just like I do with my OSP. The bags were stored upstairs with the ones in pots. I would say that 90% of all the bulbs regrew for me.
Of course I wasn't expecting that so I ordered quite a few new bulbs from the Co-op and now I have a whole lot of caladiums and I'm not sure what to do about next years Co-op if I don't order more and mine don't overwinter this year I will not have any and if I do order more and mine overwinter fine I will have way too many. LOL
This was taken back in mid June. The larger pot in the back are the ones I overwintered, the smaller pot in front are the new bulbs. Both of these pots really filled in over the summer.