I have 35 caladium species and 90% of them live under direct sun and rain. You will experience some sunburnt leaves at first but be patient and the new growth will adjust. Their colors become super vibrant especially those that have any pink or red on them. Also they become much less leggy. In my experience, the size and amount of leaves depends on the size of the bulb and not the amount of roots so try not to chop the bulbs up too tiny unless you don’t mind having tiny new shoots. Also, if you want the leaves to grow bigger faster, you will need to only keep max 2 leaves at a time until you reach your desired size. Caladiums are heavy feeders so I give them fishmeal. And yes, you should wear gloves when handling “cut up” caladium bulbs. Greetings from Malaysia

I never tire of the content, and I absolutely love how it feels like we’re hanging out and you’re sharing information on care, tips, pitfalls, and explaining why. Never feels like you’re assuming we know things, so it feels like your care videos are comprehensive. Thank you Sean! It’s a joy to watch your channel. It’s hard not to have a crush on you when you’re such a hands on, responsible plant dad! Not to mention you have a way with teaching. 😂 You can smell the good genes 😂

watching! your videos are always so detailed and informative. Its good to see the successful propagation!

You always seem so nice and friendly! And always so knowledgeable yet humble when you speak. I enjoy watching all of your videos

Your videos are so knowledgeable and enjoyable! Everyone thinks I’m so knowledgeable on plants but I’ve I’ve learned from the best!!

I definitely appreciated the 5 week update to show the propagation success. It validated what you were doing.

Hi, from Hong Kong. We have a flower market and very recently, they sell small baby caladiums super cheaply. HKD10 for 3 and many of us go grab some and try to grow them. It is getting popular in Taiwan a few years back but never a big popular plant in Hong Kong. Now I have about 20 at my office with indirect light and A/C on for 5 days of the week and they are growing bigger and bigger every day. I love them. They are quite easy to handle and I love the big leaves with stunning colours.

This is my second plant ever..I’m a newbies plant mom! Super helpful!! It was already growing out of the bottom of the pot when I bought it so I just repotted. I didn’t want to propogate it so I just kept the clumps together..fingers crossed 🤞🏻

Wow great success Sean, thank you for taking us on this journey 🌷💚🙃

You have the best personality. I love your enthusiasm so much! 💗 Thanks for the great content

Thanks so much for the tips. I enjoyed your video. It's been very helpful coz you answered all my questions about my caladiums.

Sean. You are extremely brave with the cuttings. I am motivated!

Wished I saw this video sooner. Mine actually do well in afternoon light. My first one went dormant (mistook for dead ). I found roots coming out of the bulb I dug out months later. That was a surprise to me. Wow! It is giving me a full season now. I felt so confident, I now own four more! 😌

I love your channel! You’ve helped me bunch! Love you and keep making videos!🥰

Those babies at the end are too cute 🥰🌱

Fantastic video! I didn't catch what your text box said about doing something protective to the cut tubers. It said you didn't know about doing that prior to your surgery session. It was to help the plant recover from its wounds to the tuber after division. Thank you for such a great educational video. You're an amazing teacher.

I have recently fallen in love with caladium, and your videos help me a lot! I can feel you’re really in love with your plants and the things you are doing. Btw, I think the caladium in your video is a bit like “Caladium celebration” Love from Taiwan❤️

Beautiful Caladium.... I love these beauty of Caladium...💚💚💚 Thank you for sharing...Sean. Good wishes to you..

Best regards from Costa Rica. Love these caladium plants. Enjoyed you clip.

Sean your so funny I'm enjoying watching you propagating the Caladium. 😊

Yeyyyty finally a vid on caladiums

Amazing video and exactly what I was looking for…. Thanksss

That caladuim is available in my hometown...beautiful plants

You are a “plant daddy!” Nice to know we have to wear gloves when propagating Caladiums; sorry you had to find out the hard way!

There was a real craze on them here in Thailand last year, mine were all dug up from my garden when I went away 😢 a year earlier they had been basically been growing wild in my area. Luckily the plant thrives missed some small bulbs and a few small ones have popped back up in my garden 😁

Beautiful plants! 😍

Hi I really enjoy your content. I have a Hilo Beauty and the leaves are huge.

Been struggling with my caladium. Thanks for sharing

Good morning sir Sean☀️always watching your videos 🇵🇭❤️❤️❤️

Oomy you have very nice caladium.. I like the green white pink

Thank you so much for the information.

Buy Shawn I think you're amazing I'm from Connecticut I watch your videos all the time cause you have such a way of explaining Plants Keep up the good work I'm very interested in the I don't know how to say it Well you know I'm very interested to find out about them I just got a bulb today and I planted it Wish me luck

I boughtba beautiful caladium from a home goods store and it was stunning when I got it. I repotted it on the patio because the plant instructions said "full sun," and "outdoor," but the thing completely scorched and died. I dissected the plant to see if there was any living material and found little yellow balls while one still had a tiny semblance of an eye. I repotted that little yellow ball per your instructions and I'm hoping I can rescue it.

Just bought my first caladium and watched your video. Thanks for your guide! Looking forward to looking after this beauty.

I usually grow a few bulbs each summer in wi.and in the past have thrown them away at the end of summer.last year I decided to keep them along with begonias.It will be interesting to see if I stores them correctly and they come back.If they do maybe next year they will be big enough to seperate.

Thank you for this! Hard to find good info on this plant family 🤗🤗🤗

Hi! super super cool video! Thanks for sharing! I'm a little bit scared to chop a lot of the bulb. 🙈 But maybe I've to try and see what happens!

I do the same hopefully its get worked for me too

I absolutely LOVE your videos. I always learn so much 🙏 I have a quick question, can an aroid mix that is extremely well draining cause my caladium stems & leaves to droop dramatically?? My soil isn’t holding onto to much water at all. A bit more coco pest perhaps?

I absolutely adore caladiums. You're right, they're heavy feeders. Can try giving them fishmeal fertilizer. They make the leaves grow huge! Hilo beauty leaves can grow huge! Someone I know grow them the same way as colocasia (soaked in water) and the leaves grow about as big as colocasia leaves. They're some of the caladiums that thrive under full sun, so at the same time benefit from abit more water intake. I have mine soaked in a tray of shallow water (actually all my caladiums live in a shallow tray of water because I have too many of them to water and care for daily)

"Trust me". I love it when Sean says that lol

Great video! When should I be doing this to my plant. I just bought one from home depot.

Excellent 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Very beutiful plants brother.I am from indonesia

“Root porn”. 😂. I laughed for 5 minutes after hearing that. I know exactly what you mean. I grow all my houseplants in water because I absolutely adore looking at the roots. It is quite addictive. Love the video. 😍

Man now I want to get one as an experiment.

Hi Sean! Will you be able to do a propagation guide video for Philodendron Warszewiczii? The stem and trunk are so different from other philodendrons.

You are so lucky to buy a caladium with such a big bulb that was uncut. In Malaysia , the caladiums are mostly sold with a teeny weeny size bulb and that's why it is not possible to grow the caladium into a bushy one.

One of the most underrated plants

Been dealing with bad fungus gnats in mine. I did the mosquito bit tea hack, sticky traps, tons of neem oil, cinnamon. When that didn’t do much, I repotted, disposed of the old soil, mixed the new soil with mosquito bits and cinnamon…somehow they still returned in full force 🤦‍♀️.

Seeing that you have quite a bit of insects and caterpillars attacking the foliage, maybe you can try sprinkle a little ceylon cinnamon power, pests don't the the smell and the powder works as a fungicide as well as encouraging root growth. Its cheap and good.

So when it dries up around the bulb does that mean more eyes will grow on the side where you originally cut?

I'm confused. I always thought the hilo beauty is an alocasia or colocasia 🤷🏼‍♀️ Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 💚💚💚

thank you for your video!! i just bought a calladium and even tho i put it where the window is and it gets afternoon sun, the leaves are drooping and the pink is losing its color, one leaf actually become translucent where there were once pink spots....do u have any kind advice for me? thank you.

Thank you for this. I am a new owner of a caladium called Heart of Jesus! It is stunning.

Hi....can you make a video on how to hybrids a caladiums please

Definetly give your indoor Caladium morning or late afternoon Sun. What hurts them most is dry air in most climates. There are cheap meters indicating temperature and air moisture, get one, and adjust a humidifier to trigger if the % falls below 40%. It dosen't have to be extremely acurate. You just don't want much below 40%. Oh and above 50% in a house for long periods of time isn't good. Promotes molds and critters. You don't want that inside your house. So aim for 40%-50%. Propagation by cutting the bulb is easier at the end of the rest period, because you can cut them in sections, let the cut dry for a week, then plant them. ( Growers in the wet, warm tropics might not have a rest period though, so do like Sean if that's your case. )

What fertilizer is best for caladiums ? Thanks for growing tips

The caladium is called 'celebration', my fav. There's another variety called 'carousel' having similar pattern but different leaf shape and petiole color.

I just purchased some Caladiums for outside. I live in TX, so it's really hot and humid here. What is the highest temp which these can survive/thrive in? Right now it's around 95 degrees F and 41% humidity. I'm debating on whether or not to bring them in when the weather is this hot. I literally potted them and have had them for 1 week, so not sure of what to do, the temps just skyrocketed. Thanks for your help.

If you accidentally remove a healthy leaf from the mother plant, check the end of the leaf stalk. If it has some ' bulby ' material, plant the leaf back into the soil. You may have a small leaf growing soon.

How do i prune off leafs do i cut the “stem” or just the leaf

Caladium is the plant I love the most😍😍😍 hope u like it too

How do you tell the difference between a growing eye and the start of a new root?

If your hand/is itchi from bulb caladium ..you can put vinegar to your hand/fingers..

I just bought mine a few days ago, and it's not doing well. I keep her near my window and it get a lot of indirect sunlight, specially in the morning, but still the leavs seems like when u let your salad out of the fridge. Is it suffering bc it's too hot? Is it bc it's a different clima from where I bought it? It was already watered when I got it, and i fear they gave it too much water

My poor caladium has floppy leaves -- the big ones can't hold themselves up and arc over; for the biggest leaves, then the stems break. It was fine the first week I had it, then the flopping started. I thought maybe the pot was too small, needed more root room, and so replanted, but that didn't help. It was in a high sun area; moved it to less sun. I don't think I'm overwatering or underwatering -- all my other guys, big and small are fine --- HELP! Thanks!

Can I buy some ? Would you posted to uk?

what fungicide do you use?

What kind of fungicide do you use?

Can you update if all the pieces grew

Can u put. The stem if it snaps off in water and grow roots??

im in love

If you cut out the main growing eye when waking up the bulbs then all the auxiliary buds will open and you’ll get a much fuller plant😊

mine after propagating died instantly (or so i assume). Its all wilted, brown and im not sure why... i added much water and well drained soil, no direct sunlight and well... im not sure what i did wrong :/. Rip to my Carolyn Whorton.

wow. they're so hard to buy where I am (Perth, Western Australia). they'd sell like hotcakes. I also cant seem to keep them alive yet. Very hot here. I'm not giving up tho as they are beautiful. Your plants are gorgeous!

what season do you propagate?

BTW a lot of these cultivars are what is known as caladium "Bicolor." (SP) The Hilo Beauty is known as "Praetisserum". (SP) Most caladium varieties are bicolor.

separate. My favorite is gingerland

Mine Thriving at 12 noon - 5 pm exposed to direct sunlight

Isn’t Hilo beauty an Alocasia?

I think the cut ones are called nodes

Caladium bicolor (Aiton) Vent. {heart of Jesus} ? Just purchased one 30 minutes ago from down the road.

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I would buy them from you!

I think they're classified as tubers. See, you made an analogy to potatoes. :)

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All of mine rotted when trying to take them out of dormancy except for a few 😞

would they do well in terracotta? i’m so scared to cut up my baby 😭

Caladium di propagasi dengan air bs pak ?

Hahaha your caladium is getting even with you for cutting it up.

Why you name them 'no luck' ?😂 aren't they white queen ? And the white christmas (cmiiw) is cute, but I prefer moonlight ones.. Just studying about some foliage plantation and just know that there are florida clown caladiums outside my parents' house, they're so cute with their red & white speckles on their lime green foliages ❤️

8:22 i trust you

Funny you say it's nearly impossible to kill. So that 1% chance of killing a Caladium is probably me, I have no idea why, one day it's fine then the next, all it's stalks seem drippy & mushy. But I really love having one so everytime that I get a chance to buy one again, I buy..... Again, wish me luck

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I believe this csladium is called tapestry

Over here that green and pink cultivar is called “Tapestry”

Do you have enemies Sean? 🌷💚🙃

I was shocked when you didn't use a glove when handling caladium🤣

Got these vareities and they are infected with mealybugs and can't understand why they aren't beautiful and they are dying. 🤔