I'm taking cuttings from all the varieties of Coleus I bought or grew from seed this year in order to overwinter them inside. I will be trying to root them in water.
Yep. I have that variety and I recognized it from the video. I had forgotten the name, but I have photos of all of the variety names next to the plants so I looked it up and confirmed. And yeah, it pairs quite well.
I rooted my coleus in water like you and planted it in potting soil a couple of weeks ago and it is doing great. I intend to do the rest of my collection soon. By the way I read online that fungus gnats can’t lay their eggs if you put a layer of sand on top of the potting soil. So I got a bag of black sand off of Amazon. I wanted black sand so it would look like soil. Also I make sure the sand covers all the soil and no gaps at the sides of my containers. By the way you have the most beautiful collection of coleus I have ever seen! ❤😊🥰
They look good. I must say I have never cut cuttings that big. Usually 4 leaves. And have never placed a coleus cutting, that I am rooting, in the sun. For fungus gnats 1. Cut sticky paper in a circle that would fit just on top of the rim of the pot. Cut a slit to the middle and then a hole in the center to go around the stem. Place it slowly, as to not distube the gnats, sticky side down on the pot. Then tap the opt to make the gnats fly up. After you have trapped them, remove the paper and place a good layer of sand (an icnh thick is good, on top of the soil. Fungus gnats need moisture to reproduce. Move on to the next plant with the sticky paper. My favorite combo is any dark red/bugundy together with a lime green coleus. Or burgundy with a lime green trailing plant.
i'm impressed with your dedication 😊 I don't understand so many different methods for growing coleus. My mom always snapped a piece off, stuck it in the soil, watered it and boom, new plant. Ive used the same method successfully, even with the large leaf.
Hello from Oregon. You might want to try watering from the bottom of your plants to help keep the gnats down. Since I started watering them from the bottom and my gnats have gone down tremendously! I just take my potted plant and set then in a tray and let the water soak up from the bottom of the pot. That's it! Sometimes they're very thirsty and the water goes right up and the tray is almost dry. Some of the plants I just let them sit there for about an hour or until I feel that the pot is heavier from the soaked up water. I will still water from the top occasionally to flush out the salts and build up but for the most part I really like watering from the bottom especially since it means no more gnats! Thanks for the tour of all your very beautiful coleus plants and the tips you shared. 😊
Thank you for your comment. I have started doing this method more and more with my indoor plants. Some are just too heavy to move, but I agree with you that if I can water from the bottom with the majority of the plants, then I know they are getting what they need and it is reducing the risk of the FG's. I also just learned of a chemical spray from a Fiddle Leaf Fig channel that I will deploy if it happens again. I've exhausted the natural remedies. I hope you have a FG free season!
i have been planting coleus for 30 years, its my absolute fav!! I am going to start doing this to save $ cannot wait I know they will do well coleus can wilt but bounces back when you water it!!! love your video, very informative!! God bless!
I love them too! What other plants have so much color and variety ? After all my plants get up to a good size I can't help but start propagating.Next thing I know I have a big outside table full of all colors of coleus! Mostly just to give away to someone who might want some,but I'm thinking about trying to start selling a few so I can turn around and buy some I don't have.If you got to be addicted to something it might as well be a plant!
It's CRAZY how quickly they bounce back after watering!! I videoed it this summer- they shake around -within 10mins back to new. This was my first year with Coleus. Kong Red - beautiful reds & lime hues. Only shade!😅 But wow. Now I'm in love!!
Greeting Edge so happy I found your channel I have being trying to find Coleus for long time could not fine any, I can't wait to get my seeds and plant them for next year. So pretty love it
I just found this video, and I am glad that I did. I too am taking cuttings of my coleus plants from my zone 6 garden, and attempting to use the water method to overwinter inside my home. I have them in my dining room bay window and at my kitchen window. I am glad that you told us to change the water weekly, instead of just adding water (which I was doing). I will now follow your advice. I have subscribed to your channel, and hope to learn alot more.
Thanks for this! I experimented with overwintering a gifted Coleus in vases last winter! It was a success; my tiny cutting grew to fill an 8 inch pot. This summer, I bought more varieties. Now, I may never have to buy another Coleus again (unless I fall in love with a variety I don't have yet).
They will do better if you put them in soil when the roots are about 1/2" long. Water roots and soil roots are different. Both sill live but the sooner you out in soil the better. You have beautiful coleus. One if my favorite plants. Loved your video.
Thank you so much. Your video has sparked an interest in me to try to do what you have done. I only have a couple coleus now, but seeing all the variety that you have I am intrigued. Thank you.
My absolute favorite here is the Blaire's Witch. Don't care for the name, but the plant is gorgeous! Also, the Allison is really beautiful~ Thank you for sharing!
If I have a lot of coleus cuttings to root I use a cooling rack over a tray or plastic box (usually a deep cat litter tray) filled with water. Each cutting gets poked through one of the holes in the cooling rack and into the water. This method makes it easy to space the cuttings, they don’t slip down and the extra volume of water means there is more leeway on the watering (they can be very thirsty). I use a photograph of the mother plant with its name as identification if I know it. Love the water method as I can see roots happen and deal with individuals as they are ready.
I know this video is old, but here is a tip I have used successfully. When you are ready to take your cuttings to plant, take half regular potting soil and half perlite. Put it in a container and saturate it with water until the mixture is wet. Pot you cuttings into small containers that you fill with the wet soil mix. Make sure there is drainage in your pot because they will drain some water immediately. This is an easier method of making sure the soil starts with adequate moisture. Water them once the top of the soil dries out and soon you will see new growth. You can move them to an all potting soil mixture if you want or just keep them as is if they are going into your garden in the spring. Keep them in a bright sunny window...and that's it!
I started cutting my Coleus and start the Water root! Excellent method!! And I ordered Coleus seeds but I’m going plants these till next year! I do change the water once a week! There is a beautiful Purple one I love! I think the longer they sit the nicer they come ! To bad I can,t show you some photos! 😒
Get you a Sansi grow light bulb...full spectrum white grow light.. your Coleus will thrive.. I have many coleus and tropical hibiscus that love my grow lights...
i just got some given to me. and moved them to a pot to put them in house . i have still outside for now but when things turn i will bring in house .........u can place in mayb 4 inch pots for winter . then take back outside in spring . yes they r awesome they roots super fast . .i had one given me and within 5 day they started nicly and i put in dirt that is wet .. i am just southwest of buffalo .ny along lake shore erie.
I just cut some coleus a week ago, glad I found your video from a comment you posted on another channel. I also have them in water. Thanks for all the tips! 🌱🌼
I guess you have to make sure the leaves are Big enough, I put the leaves in water but the leaves were to small and they kept sinking in the water, I am going to try the water and I’m just starting a Coleus colllection, I do have the jars! Thank you for your videos, very helpful! Their so beautiful! 👍🌺
Just a comment, I have a pineapple end, I add 2 or 3 drops of chlorine bleach to the water, also some pea gravel, [a handful] Lasted several years, water changing a must! A good rinse of the roots. I have not yet tested this method with colious, but this will be my next test. We did dig up some colious and planted them dirrectly in to tera cotta pots . An interesting point some of the varities do prefer shade! {Flower Delivery Guy} Chicagoland area! 🌾😀 🌿
I love coleus, but always have a difficult time overwintering the plants indoors in Midwest. With the heat going and the winter long, most end up drying up and dying before being able to put outdoors again in May.
Hi Shelly- I love your coleus collection. I have been growing coleus from cuttings for several years. You may want to start with a lot fewer leaves, especially for the ones looking so wilted, while keeping them out of direct sunlight. Since you have a long cold weather season ahead, you may have to make root cuttings from the cuttings you started if you continue to keep them in water during the winter months!
Just realized your video is about 10 months old! How was the final result? Did they get too big before the weather was warm enough to pot them outside again 😊
The 3 varieties I have each root differently. The light green one roots easily , roots from the cut and all along the stem. The rust colored one roots from the nodes. Needs more attention. The beautiful curly leaved one is very difficult to root either in water or pots even with rooting hormones. This time I took cuttings from the woody stems. Trying that. Thank You. The website you gave will give me names.
@@edgygardener2826 if coleus are leggy pinch the tips. Pinch the tops then a couple weeks pinch the next out growth. They will grow out from lower down. This is my third year with coleus. Quite a learning curve for me !! All the varieties I have benefit from pruning or pinching. I have a very aggressive dark pink one that grows in sun or shade but really shines when vigorously pruned. Root the cuttings for friends 😉
your favourite unknown Coleus is an introduction from my friend Dan, Coleus 'Marrakesh'. Would love to find a cutting of that over here (the netherlands), but haven't had any luck yet.
Yes. That's exactly it! And your friend introduced it? Wow. Mine looks great again this year, but it did not survive my overwintering method so I had to buy new this year. I will try again this winter to keep it
@@edgygardener2826 yes Dan Heims, the man behind Terra Nova, one of the nurseries that introduced a bunch of interesting new Coleus varieties. He was the winner of the Luther Burbank award last year. Hope you can keep it happy this year :) for me coleus overwinter easily from the older stems cut back and roots pruned in new soil with bright light and enough moisture. But maybe my supplemental lighting helped as well. After my vacation in France i'll acquire a cutting of Marrakesh too for my collection, as i haven't found anything quite like it yet :)
I got feather coleus. Beautiful coleus. Thanks for the tutorial. If it blooms and you cut the flower and take those leaves as a clipping, will it still be leggy?
Question? Do you leave your in containers, that you have in containers , or do you just take the cutting off and water root, but I guess these are from outside in jars! Thank you.
There was way too many leaves and stems on those cuttings for them to root properly from nothing. Keep them that bulky will make them want to continue to focus on foliage growth vs pruning them back, you’d encourage them to start working on roots
Your collection is beautiful. I think I’m gonna have to shop on line to find specific varieties!!! I am saving seeds from mine but may try to clip and over winter also. Great video. How did they over winter?
This method did not do so well for me. They were much thirstier than I thought and I didn't keep up the water level fast enough. I lost a lot. By mid winter, I put the survivors in soil. I lost a few more but the rest did much better. This fall, I will put in soil right away
Do you know the name of a coleus whose leaves, on top, are a deep red velvet? Not the underside, just the top surface of the leaves. I had one decades ago, and lost it. Haven’t seen it since. Any ideas?
This method did not do so well for me. They were much thirstier than I thought and I didn't keep up the water level fast enough. I lost a lot. By mid winter, I put the survivors in soil. I lost a few more but the rest did much better. This fall, I will put in soil right away
@@edgygardener2826 How did your cuttings from woody stems do? I large pots with 3 plants. My favorite, Henna, grows about 3' tall by almost 4' wide with pinching occasionally. I did not have luck with an experiment with a foot long woody cutting from it. Top wilted by the next day. So I cut regular cuttings from it but longer than I usually do. They have 4 sets of leaves and 2 days later the bottom leaves are already turning yellow. I think some old plants, like people, just don't have the hormones for new growth like when they are young. :) The ones I cut from soft, new growth are all rooted and doing fine.
I think it's consistent water. Once I put my containers on a scheduled drip system, my Coleus got bigger than they ever had before. Thanks for watching
What can you tell me about Blue / Black Coleius seeds I've ordered 25 seeds twice and out of those seeds only got one to finally sprout. Please Can you give me info on these beautiful colieus 🙏.
My coleus cuttings are losing leaves in water They turn brown and fall off I used tap water at first but switched to RO after the issue Any suggestions?
This year I will be cutting off more leaves than before, but enough so I know which variety they are, then root them in water. As soon as the roots are a few inches long, I will pot them. I had more survive the winter once they were in soil. We will see how Coleus trial 2021 goes
It is a coleus and there are quite a few of those kind I have quite a few of them maybe next time put a root hormone solution in with the water like rapid route
I have been just taking the small pieces inside and throwing out the mother plant, but several comments suggested to take the mother plant inside too. Now, I don't have the space to bring them all in, but I will do it differently this year. Stay tuned!
