Tropicals & Tender Perennials: How do you dig up caladium tubers in the fall?, 1 by DaleTheGardener

DaleTheGardener wrote:
Happy,

I have an idea for you. If you take hardware cloth (any kind of fine wire mesh will work) and form it into a pot shape, then plant your tubers inside the wire, in the ground, you should be able to pry the 'pot' out of the ground with a spade, with the tubers intact. If you make a modest size wire pot for them (and only have a few) you can let them dry out in the wire and store them that way. Storing them in brown paper bags is better than plastic, less likely to rot.

Also, if your tuber are soft or mushy you may have waited to long to pull them. I start drying them out when they have lost 70-80% of their leaves. Don't wait until they have lost all their leaves.

Hope this helps.

The ones that I don't sell get the pot turned on it's side, are allowed to dry out and stored in their pot when dormant>