I use sieve to collect seed: the seeds fall through and the chaff stays in the sieve. I have 4 different sieves of different size mesh for all the different size seeds I collect.
Thank you! Very helpful. This is my first year growing flowers from seed and learning how to collect the seeds. The coleus I have I purchaed from a nursery, but that was my last time now that I know how to collect my own seeds. 😊
I'm glad you found the video informative! I had one variety this year that didn't seem to make seeds. I kept checking, but I either missed them, or there were few to none. 🙁
Couldn’t you just keep the petals and seeds together and then plant the mixture next spring or would the petals cause musty mildew? Or, would the dried petals just be good nutrients for the seed for next year when planted together? I really don’t know!
It was probably a hybrid, and as mentioned, with hybrids, it's a surprise as to what you will get if the seeds to germinate. Seeds from hybrids won't produce exact replicas of the mother plant.
Sorry I seemed to have overlooked this comment. I would think the flowers would need to be pollinated before they produce seeds. You might could do that with a toothpick since the flowers are fairly small. It also depends on varieties. I've had one outdoor coleus not produce seeds.
Hi..i have a lot of different Coleus plants and want to save seeds from them..but I don't have much room to scatter them around.mi want to put about 4 in a pot and save seeds from each variety but I don't want them to cross pollinate..can I save seeds from each variety if they are planted close together?thank you
@@mystiquerose620 I don't ever really plant a lot close together. Once when I planted 2 varieties together, I discovered one variety didn't produce seeds, so it didn't matter.
I am not sure honestly. I have never grown coleus indoors. From my understanding, you would need to pollinate the flowers on the same plant in order for it to produce seeds.
If your indoor coleus flowers, then it might produce seeds. But in order for those seeds to be viable the flowers will need pollinated. If the plant was outdoors insects would do this, but indoors you need to do it by hand. There are different methods for hand pollinating indoor plants. You can just do a Google search or RU-vid search for hand pollinating coleus, or how to hand pollinate indoor plants, and then try one of the methods described. Hope this helps. 🙂
