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Heart to Heart® Hot 2 Trot Caladium | Proven Winners®

Heart to Heart® Hot 2 Trot Caladium | Proven Winners®

It is not recommended that you plant/place your caladiums outdoors until your unique nighttime temperatures consistently stay at or above 65° F.

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Caladiums are on pre-order and will not start shipping until the earliest—beginning of May—or later if need based on your growing zone.

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Features

Characteristics

Plant Needs

Hot 2 Trot caladium is a new red strap introduction from Classic Caladiums CEO, Dr. Robert Hartman. Hot 2 Trot starts out with shiny young leaves with a bright red center and constrasting green margins. Later emerging leaves may be less shiny. Hot 2 Trot is short to intermediate in height and it is wider than it is tall.

Characteristics

Plant Type:

Annual

Height Category:

Medium

Garden Height:

15 - 20 Inches

Spacing:

10 - 14 Inches

Spread:

10 - 14 Inches

Foliage Colors:

Green, Red

Foliage Shade:

Green Border with Red Center

Habit:

Mounded

Container Role:

Filler

Resists:

Deer

Plant Needs

Light Requirement:

Full Shade (up to 4 hours), Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Sun or Shade

Maintenance Category:

Easy

Bloom Time:

Grown for Foliage

Hardiness Zones:

10a, 10b, 11a, 11b

Water Category:

Average

Uses:

Border Plant, Container, Landscape, Mass Planting

Caladiums can be an irritant if ingested. The ASPCA has more information on which plants may be harmful.

Indoors:

Caladiums can be a very nice windowsill or sunroom plant and for much of the United States and certainly in Canada this might be the best use for the Caladiums. Since they are tropical they need to have warmth and humidity, try to always keep the temperatures above 65 F for best growth and leaf size, and a pebble tray or frequent misting can help to keep humidity up around your plants. If you live in a northern climate, be careful not to plant too early in spring as temperatures below 50F will chill and stunt plants, normal indoor temperatures should be fine and winter heaters usually dry things out a bit too much. So this can be a good guide for when to grow these Caladiums, when you turn the heater off for the summer.

Plant tubers pointed end facing upwards, so the tuber is about 2” below the soil level, the roots form on the top of the tuber , so you need to plant them deep enough that roots have room to grow, but not too deep because it delays new leaves and weakens the plant. If your plants are already growing in pots when you purchase them, plant them about ½” deeper when you transplant them to make sure the tubers have room to keep growing.

Caladiums do not need a lot of fertilizer, about ¼ of what most folks feed their flowering annuals, and too much fertilizer can burn the leaves especially the white portions of the leaf. So just fertilize with ¼ the strength what you normally do for your flowers and apply weekly or every other week.

Keep plants in a sunny to partly sunny location and avoid burning hot southern exposures especially at higher altitudes.

Keep soil in your pots moist at all times, wilting will cause leaves to yellow and drop, so just check to make they do not dry out!

Outdoors:

Since Caladiums prefer heat and humidity and do not tolerate cold, soggy soils, for most gardeners who live in the north will have best results in containers, as the soil in pots or planters warms up faster and has better drainage so plants will not become soggy. Remember for best growth always keep the temperatures above 65 F.

A ¼ - ½ strength fertilizing every week or every other week is fine throughout the season, too strong a fertilizer can burn leaves, and since the leaves last all season you want to keep them looking fresh. Caladiums like to be moist at all times so avoid allowing them to dry out as it also causes leaves to yellow and drop.

Hot 2 Trot caladium is a new red strap introduction from Classic Caladiums CEO, Dr. Robert Hartman. Hot 2 Trot starts out with shiny young leaves with a bright red center and constrasting green margins. Later emerging leaves may be less shiny. Hot 2 Trot is short to intermediate in height and it is wider than it is tall.

Plant Type:

Annual

Height Category:

Medium

Garden Height:

15 - 20 Inches

Spacing:

10 - 14 Inches

Spread:

10 - 14 Inches

Foliage Colors:

Green, Red

Foliage Shade:

Green Border with Red Center

Habit:

Mounded

Container Role:

Filler

Resists:

Deer

Light Requirement:

Full Shade (up to 4 hours), Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Sun or Shade

Maintenance Category:

Easy

Bloom Time:

Grown for Foliage

Hardiness Zones:

10a, 10b, 11a, 11b

Water Category:

Average

Uses:

Border Plant, Container, Landscape, Mass Planting

Caladiums can be an irritant if ingested. The ASPCA has more information on which plants may be harmful.

Indoors:

Caladiums can be a very nice windowsill or sunroom plant and for much of the United States and certainly in Canada this might be the best use for the Caladiums. Since they are tropical they need to have warmth and humidity, try to always keep the temperatures above 65 F for best growth and leaf size, and a pebble tray or frequent misting can help to keep humidity up around your plants. If you live in a northern climate, be careful not to plant too early in spring as temperatures below 50F will chill and stunt plants, normal indoor temperatures should be fine and winter heaters usually dry things out a bit too much. So this can be a good guide for when to grow these Caladiums, when you turn the heater off for the summer.

Plant tubers pointed end facing upwards, so the tuber is about 2” below the soil level, the roots form on the top of the tuber , so you need to plant them deep enough that roots have room to grow, but not too deep because it delays new leaves and weakens the plant. If your plants are already growing in pots when you purchase them, plant them about ½” deeper when you transplant them to make sure the tubers have room to keep growing.

Caladiums do not need a lot of fertilizer, about ¼ of what most folks feed their flowering annuals, and too much fertilizer can burn the leaves especially the white portions of the leaf. So just fertilize with ¼ the strength what you normally do for your flowers and apply weekly or every other week.

Keep plants in a sunny to partly sunny location and avoid burning hot southern exposures especially at higher altitudes.

Keep soil in your pots moist at all times, wilting will cause leaves to yellow and drop, so just check to make they do not dry out!

Outdoors:

Since Caladiums prefer heat and humidity and do not tolerate cold, soggy soils, for most gardeners who live in the north will have best results in containers, as the soil in pots or planters warms up faster and has better drainage so plants will not become soggy. Remember for best growth always keep the temperatures above 65 F.

A ¼ - ½ strength fertilizing every week or every other week is fine throughout the season, too strong a fertilizer can burn leaves, and since the leaves last all season you want to keep them looking fresh. Caladiums like to be moist at all times so avoid allowing them to dry out as it also causes leaves to yellow and drop.

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