Coleus Started From Seed : Propagating Cuttings! : Flower Hill Farm
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- Hi Flower Friends! It's Nicole from Flower Hill Farm- today I am attempting to propagate my coleus that I started from seed about 8 weeks ago. I'll be using them for bouquet filler and also selling some at my seedling sale.
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Oh my goodness, this video reminded me I bought the same coleus seeds for baker creek. I must of misplaced it because I meant to start it weeks ago. Oops! I have been starting coleus from seed for years! I always pinch mine, all summer long. The more you pinch it, the more stems it makes! It's awesome!
The best part of your videos is always at the end, LOL!
I love all the coleus from proven winners color blaze series. They grow super fast and can take full sun.
Hi Nicole! The roots on your coleus will come from the leaf nodes, so it best to trim off the excess stem and the leaves at the nodes and keep those under water. I’ve been fall rooting and overwintering trailing coleus, alternanthera, wandering Jew, and spider plants that I use in pots and baskets for years. Saves $ and scratches the gardening itch in the winter months here in Ohio.
Yes, the roots come from the nodes :) so pull those lower leaves!
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but a coleus cutting doesn't require a node to root.
@@shawnsg is completely right -- no need to cut the stems shorter! Coleus form roots SUPER easily on basically the entire length of the stem that stays submerged in water. I've seen it in person, but you can also find examples through a quick Google image search
@@shawnsg you don't have to put cuttings in water and wait for roots, just take your cuttings put them in a container or ground, water them and they will grow no need to wait for roots. I did a huge container like this works great!!
Are they nperennial or not
On a cold spring day your “one woman show” brings me such joy. Thank you. ❤️🌈☀️
I love coleus! I have them in my garden every year. I'll take cuttings in the fall, root them in water and then grow them inside for the winter. Early spring I'll take cuttings from those plants, root those and come summer I'll have dozens to plant outside again.
The gift that keeps on giving!
I do the same. They used to be sold as houseplants.
I love that the coleus song stuck. We all sing it now.
You will be amazed at how quickly the roots form. Cuttings I put in water four days ago already have roots popping out. You don't need a green thumb to root coleus. It never occurred to me to use the foliage in a bouquet. Your customers will be surprised because once those stems are in water a few short days they will have roots and can be potted up. It will be like a two-fer for them. A fresh bouquet with a houseplant bonus.
you don't even have to put in water for roots, just take cuttings put them in your potting soil in a container or ground and they will grow!! I did a huge container like this, works great!!
Hi Nicole, I grow my coleus from seed. I pinch them 2-3 times and the stems are still long enough to cut. I wish I could show you the pictures. I will definitely try rooting some this year.
Coleus are my favorite and omg loved your video first time viewer
Love coleus. I’ve grown from seed and propagated easily. Looks great in planters and in big bunches in the landscape. Keep us posted on their cut flower use.
I absolutely fell in love with coleus after seeing it on "the lawrence family farm" YT channel... she had a variety called twister something... it had every color in the rainbow!
Coleus is just too easy to propogate in water. You'll have no issues. Make your cut at the leaf nodes or just below, that's where the roots will come from.
If you pinch it you wil still get very long stems bushing out...it loves being cut. I have found if I don't pinch it, it is flimsy and prone to fall over.
In my area (9a), coleus just re-seeds itself. I have found that even if you let it go to flower, you can trim it back down and it will flush back out in just 2-3 weeks. The native pollinators in my area go bananas for it -- probably why I get so much viable seed... but it is interesting to see what seedling I am going to get because of genetic variations and such.
Pretty coleus. Where do you buy your seeds? I love to grow coleus from seed but find there are very few options relative to the ones you see at the garden centres. Looks like you got some nice varieties though.
I can see why you like the coleus. What a brilliant array of color combos!
Hello felicity
I can propagate in water but I have 100% fail when I transplant to soil. I wish I knew why.
My favorite is French Quarter variety! I overwintered one so I can enjoy its color again. It is very fragile and needy. Must shield from sun, wind etc. A real Diva of a coleus😉
The wisteria you purchased is a variety of native American wisteria native up into New York. It is not considered invasive. The Chinese and Japanese wisterias are the ones that are invasive.
It's official. I've watched all your video for the last month or so. I'm finally caught up!
Mine flopped gonna try again. Yours are fantastic so jealous.
I love coleus for my outdoor pots around the house. I cut a little bit last summer for bouquets. I will get going on some plans for some for cuts this year. Thanks for the motivation. Your colors are gorgeous! Happy Thaw!
Wow, mine are no where near that big. Guess i need to pot them up. I just don't have the room.
Nice coleus Nicole 👍
Those are petals? Nah! Lol, sorry for the nitpick.
Thanks for the supplier name, I love it when I hear a new name (to me) and will be checking them out since I have a need for some clematis...I have plenty of wisteria and will not let gardening clients plant any unless it's some cultivar that is less vigorous. Too much maintenance to keep big ones in check. Looking forward to seeing those all grow on the deer fence. Rock on in the cold country. EJ in 6b NY
Wow Nicole! Everything you plant just grows and thrives! 🥰
Coleus will root from leaves also if you cut them you will have lots of limbs
I love the chocolate mint that you’re growing.
I love coleus and started some from seed too this year.. Mine are not even close as big as your though... Love all the colors
Wow! Not too many people appreciate the stunning beauty of the coleus! I think if snow flakes when I see them, no two are quite exactly alike! The colors vary from bright greens and pink's to an almost black purple. I usually buy them each year. Unfortunately tried growing some but not much luck sadly. They were one of my mom's favorites. We always paired them with dusty Miller in big pots or whiskey barrels and it always was beautiful together! Thanks for posting! So jealous if your beauties! 😍😍😍😍. Can't wait to see yours grow! Btw my raniculas are almost ready to bloom! So excited!
Coleuses? Coleusi? Are thugs and I love it First year I brought plants. Super cute! The next year grew from seed? 🤯 💥. Enjoy Nic!.
Google coleus tree. It's amazing.
wow that coleus looks so beautiful!! I am going to have to add this my list for next year for sure! 😊😊
This is inspiring. I'm going to plant my Mexican Sunflower seedlings. I think I have around 25 (Gave a few away) I hardened them off already. I need the shelf space on the rack too.
I use coleus in bouquets all the time. I love them and because they root so easily they actually last so long. I have saved a few plants, to overwinter, and then have been propagating them for the yard to fill in the areas. Once my bleeding hearts are done blooming along with shadier areas in my yard I have free plants. Love coleus...
Pinch your coleus. They grow so fast! As a child, my first houseplants were a snake plant and coleus. Your varieties are gorgeous!
I’ve had the same coleus plant in the house for 5 years. Each spring I take slips and root them in glasses of water on the counter. They root in just a couple of days and then I pot them up and use in big flower pots in the summer. If you take some slips now you’ll have some ready for your seedling sale.
you don't have to put them in water and wait for roots, just take the cuttings put them in soil water them they will grow, I do this all the time and they grow wonderfully!!
When I was in elementary school, propagating coleus was my pastime. I filled up a whole flower bed with cuts from one single coleus plant.
Hello Valerie
I started coleus from seed last year but it seemed to take forever to really get going. I had previously seen some in a planter inside an restaurant in the dead of winter and it got me thinking of taking cuttings and keeping some over winter in the kitchen. It worked!!! I kept several of the different kinds so now all I have to do is wait until the weather warms up and I can harden off and plant outside! Yay!!!
Wow a nice one...just pinch it will bushier and long stem too
Amen, Sister! Wisteria is a wicked vine that spreads below ground and above ground, strangling any tree it can climb! I always say, if you like wisteria, just buy the SILK version!
Propagating in water happens pretty quickly! 😍
Love your videos so much!
Your coleus looks amazing! I started mine weeks before you and they are half the size. Boo! Good job in zone 4! 👏
You are the ultimate green thumb. Is there nothing you can't do? I wish I had half your success. Good luck with all your projects. Trying to learn from you
I love Coleus but have never grown from seed. You have inspired me!!! Will definitely give it a try going forward. Also, yesterday’s video with the snow was beautiful. If you need any reassurance that you are an amazing flower farmer…here it is. I live in zone 8b and started my ranunculus about the same time you did. However, I am in a much warmer climate and mine have been in pots outside in the sun for 6 weeks. I do not have a bloom (or even a hint of one) and you are already blooming in zone 4b!! I am in awe. Keep up the great work!
I think coleus is awesome, it's so cool looking
My coleus are an inch high. I can’t wait for them to look like those 😍
My experience with Clematis- Getting them established can be tricky, the seedlings like shade but the adults love sunshine so when you put them in the dirt, open the top and bottom of a cardboard box and put it around the seedling for shade until it starts reaching up and over the top. Second, they will spread out in all directions so you can't just give them a climbing wall and be done with it. I use myrtle branch cuttings for stakes, put 3 of them around the plant and wrap the perimeter of the stakes with chicken wire so it encourages them to grow in a big column form instead of choking out everything else in the flowerbed.
Pinch and grow more! Great filler! They’ll be huge! Love them.
Good morning ☕💚❤
I think coleus is beautiful too. Love all the fun different colors and designs they have.
You inspired me to buy Coleus seeds from Baker Creek. Wow, they have free shipping. Cannot wait to grow these seeds. Thank you for an amazing video.
Well, that will brighten up your day! I LOVE coleus!
Interesting. I’m in California and our wisteria isn’t invasive. Maybe we aren’t feeding it correctly? 🧐
I’m also a water-only propegator. I’ve never been one of those folks who can propagate in soil - indoors or outdoors. I dunno, I may be broken but water has always kicked booty for me. :)
Edit 20 seconds later: just bought coleus seeds. You’re such a bad influence! 😇
i have been growing coleus for over 20 years....BIG TIP: you don't have to propagate cuttings in water, simply take the cuttings and place them in your containers in potting soil, just like planting a plant, and water them immediately and they will grow, no waiting for roots in water~~ I had so many coleus I took about 30 cuttings and placed them in a huge planter, they grew beautifully!!! watch the channel Adela B, video name: Creative Coleus Plant ideas in a pot...just watch it!!
I just watched another video of starting coleus from cuttings, and he said to cut just BELOW a node, and you cut just ABOVE the node! So what IS correct? Plus, he pulled off almost all the leaves, and cut the biggest leaves left, in half. (I guess that was so more energy would go into making roots, and not maintaining the leaves.) Aso, how do you "pinch" these plants? I do have a couple coleus that have lasted a couple years. (I thought my first one was dead, and was going to chuck it, and then I noticed new leaves growing and it came back HUGE! I thought these plants were annuals, but they certainly are not!) My other coleus was found growing out of an unopened bag of soil! It was about two inches tall and I snagged it and planted it in a nice big pot, and it eventually grew taller then me! I found a whole line of tiny baby plants growing in a crack under the stone wall, where my coleus was sitting. I removed them all so carefully, placed them in a cardboard egg carton with soil, misted them, and they all died! What did I do wrong? This year I'm going to buy a couple more coleus for new colors, and hope to start some I have now, from seeds. If anyone has any information about these things I've written about, then please help with your knowledge! And thank you in advance too! Keep trekking...into the mystic. kristi
You will find you need three to six glasses of water....preferably one plant per glass on a sill with brite light and some shade (during winter mos.) But no sun❤🎉
Hi Nicole, ❤️Coleus,now I know to pinch to share with my neighbor. She will be so surprised. TU❣️💐😊
Omg I love coleus! I hate that it gets looked over.
I grew some from seed a few years ago and still have one as a houseplant. I had some growing in vases for a long time too.
I want to find my seed pack now and grow some more!!
Good morning, Nicole. Thanks for the tips on the Coleus 😉 It looks so cozy down there with the fire 🔥 Have a Blessed Day 🌱
Wow! I did not expect such beauty-ness from those seeds. Remember how run of the mill coleus used to be about a hundred years ago? 🤭 That's what I expected.
Your plants rival the PW varieties.
My first year propagating coleus cuttings was pretty successful. I got two plants out of many (a dozen?) cuttings. The rest succumbed to dampening off.
This past winter was a complete failure. I can attest to rotten stems when left too long in the water.
Good chores for snowy days.
The flower or seed head looks amazing if you let it grow and not cut but once it flowers it might die?! You can cut on Coleus several times thru the summer, I had many cuttings and I propagated them in very moist soil. They like sun and I've seen them cut hard and come back bigger and better!
My Coleus is not nearly as grand as yours!! I paid 50 cents for the packages. Next season I will order from a better seed company. They are not terrible but smaller. I just potted them up. I have one plant that a friend gave me and it overwintered well in zone 8b
I am absolutely crazy about coleus! It might have to do with the fact that it was the very first plant I ever started to grow as a youngster in my Brownie scout project my Aunt Zona mentored. She is also the reason I call all my zinnias "Zona's"...Such sweet memories...Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚 🌻 🌿
Coleus ugly? Who in the world would say that? Great video, thanks!
I just pinch them off and stick in the ground/pot if it’s not too hot here, yet. They grow roots quick. They are tremendously unappreciated. Beautiful foliage.
Minutes before I watched your video, I started hardening off my wisteria vine, Henryi clematis, and Jackmani clematis. They have been in my cold frame because the weather has not been reliable enough to plant them in my zone 6. Lol, what a coincidence.
My zinnias were getting to big so I cut the tops off and stuck it rite in the dirt next to it and it's growing great they all are lol!! I love them coleus very fun!!
I love them all!
After seeing a border of 70+ unique coleus varieties at an arboretum/horticulture college, I’m going to try growing coleus from seed this year 🌱
Beautiful coleus.I’m growing mine from seeds too from bakers creek and I love them 🌺😊
I threw a few coleus seeds in my little open terrarium jar. I only meant to drop in one but the seeds were so small I accidentally dropped a couple. A little over a week went by and only the grass grew in my terrarium but last night I noticed there are four coleus plants sprouting in my terrarium. I know it's going to get crowded soon , so how long should I wait before I transfer 3 of the plants to bigger pots? Also, if I trim my coleus regularly, how long do you think it could last in my terrarium that's that's a little taller than a mason jar? It has a grow light on the top, with air holes.
Coleus makes an awesome greenery in arrangements. Coleus is fast growing like zinnias
Oh this was fun! Last year I brought home this beautiful dusty yellow/light orange coleus, but when I planted it, it turned bright orange with only a few yellow flecks. Someone told me that the colors turn more vibrant in the shade, and dustier with more sun. Since you have some clones maybe if you plant them in different sun conditions you could get even more varieties for your bouquets? I dont know if this is true though, I only have shade so I couldnt move it to more sun to see
Absolutely love coleus! I have been growing it for years, so many different colors!
OMG I am so excited. I have the same coleus seeds growing and I’m a few weeks behind you (zone 3b). Can’t wait to see mine.
Ok now..I've got to try this for sure. Those are so pretty! I can put some in other areas around the property and save space in my market beds. I use to grow coleus all the time in my woodland garden beds. Those ones needed shade. I think now though you can plant some in the sun? Where will you plant those beauties? Sun/shade? oooh can't wait to see what you put together with those!!!
Hi Nichol,I am propagating my coleus since last four years.i use soil to propagate . Believe me just two days and they are growing.they are huge every year.
I love coleus. You should definetely cut and propagate more tops. 🍀⚘🌷🌼🍀
Ok, you’ve convinced me. This is the year. I’m gonna grow some coleus.🎉
I planted an Amythyst Falls Wisteria at the base of my deck last season. I'm in zone 5B. This particular one is supposed to be more manageable. It didn't do too well last year. We had a ton of rain last summer so maybe that was an issue. Not sure if it made it through the winter as most things not up yet.
Just started some coleus seeds a few days ago!
Hello Kaitlin
I bought this coleus too and when I saw your huge plants ... I was floored and excited. Mine are still pretty small with 2 sets of leafs. when did you start your seeds? I feel like mine where the start of march. but I did not keep track.
A warning, living in NH, our wysteria still is trying to spread. Our 'main' plant is actually the result of a runner. It will send out shoots that grow along the ground and root, even a decade later. We had one grow 20 feet in a season once.
I am sooooo jealous. My Coleus is so pitiful compared to yours. Trying to figure out what I am doing wrong.
I absolutely love Coleus 💜
Is bare root an ok way to buy clematis?
I was looking at options to get to $50 for free shipping somewhere 🤣🤣
Wisteria are beautiful but I had to rip mine up this year because they are incredibly invasive here in zone 6. I wish you luck with yours!
Propagating coleus is so easy! Trim those bottom leaves though, just leave the top 2 -4 leaves as the roots come from the nodes where leaves were removed. And yes - leaving it in the water too long is not good. Need a sunny spot for the water glass too.
Me…..toooo, I think Coleus are gorgeous. You did a fantastic job!
Wisteria is not invasive in our area - should overwinter without any problems but doesn't grow as much as in warmer areas. will spread some so be careful where you plant it.
Coleus is my favorite plant. I started some from seed and before I could repot the seedlings into bigger pots my cat destroyed them by knocking the container off the table. I just ordered more seeds to try again. I now have a dedicated room for my house plants and Tinker Bell, the cat, is not allowed in there lol
I’m growing this coleus too. But no where near as established as yours yet! So curious to know when you started yours?
You are so entertaining Nicole! And such a positive attitude! Love all the info, resources and advise you provide. Very helpful since I am 4b also! Coleus seeds, here I come Lol !
Hello Melanie
My mother grew coleus but these are not my mother's coleus. These coleus are glorious.
Beautiful, I did the same last year with the seeds just taking the larger ones but I should have planted out all of them.
Do you find they last well in the vase? We have been growing Coleus to sell as potplants along with our flowers at the grocery stores. There are now stunning varieties that van handle full sun as well!
I cut back my coleus in the fall and root in water over winter..works like a charm.
Nicole, it would be better if you cut right below a node as they root for, the nodes. However, they are so easy. You should be ok regardless.
Will the plant grow in the center again ? After you clipped the tops ?
Me ……toooo, I think they are gorgeous. You did a fantastic job!