Coleus are one of my favorite garden plants to grow from seed, but that is another post, perhaps later in the week. This small cutting is rooting on my windowsill now. Did you know there is a rumor that cuttings root faster in green glass with sun shining through it? I don’t know if it has been proven, but why not try if you have green glass around the house. (Perhaps a green soda bottle would work too!)
The coleus I’m rooting for Spring, is a cutting from a rooted and transplanted cutting I took in the Autumn. That’s a bit of a tongue-twister, isn’t it? I took about a dozen cuttings of my favorite coleus before the first frost, and they are rooted and growing strong on my windowsills. They will be replanted outside in pots in the first few weeks of May and be grown beneath the pine trees in the ivy beds. Coleus thrive in this area and add a lot of color to the gardens.
I’m partial to the light yellow colors that several of my coleus have developed over the years, and tend to plant and root more of these each season. Rooting coleus cuttings is easy, cut a sprig from the mother plant 4 -6 inches tall, place in water, and wait a few weeks for roots to develop. When the roots fill the container, plant in potting soil. I have great luck doing nothing more than these easy steps.
MINDING MY P'S WITH Q 
I hope you will have a Coleus plant for me .
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I will have as many as you want…they are growing very well this year…I have many seedlings. 😀
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I used to have several varieties of coleus here.we call them Mayana. The blood red ones are lovely too but I like what you have.
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I love them, one of my favorite plants to grow indoors and out.
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You have inspired me. I believe I will take some cuttings from my daughter’s in Florida and plant then at our home in North Carolina.
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They are a favorite of mine…if I had to choose just one plant, with all their color, coleus would probably be my choice.
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Kathy,
I think you are like my mother, who loved and grew all types of Coleus.
I love the green bottle though and reminds me of St. Patrick’s Day.
Susie
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Doesn’t the sun look lovely shining through the green…it reminds me of the sun shining through the leaves of the tall trees in the woods.
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