Kong coleus plant and a rooted cutting

Hi all just showing a few pics of a coleus I picked up a month or so ago. Didnt know anything about them but it looks nice.



now its been moved into partial shade like it prefers and ive got a rooted cutting, you can see even the new growth has that wine-splashed leaf pattern




anyone ever grown some of these? really easy to propagate. wondering when itll produce seeds though, bees seem to love it

i love coleus. they have striking leaf patterns. never propagated it from seed though. i bet it roots real well just from cuttings. depending on where you live it may survive the winter. or you can bring it inside and treat it as a houseplant till next season. lemme know how you make out with collecting seed. i'm interested to know if it even produces much seed if at all because of all the inbreeding.

dannyboy602 said:

i love coleus. they have striking leaf patterns. never propagated it from seed though. i bet it roots real well just from cuttings. depending on where you live it may survive the winter. or you can bring it inside and treat it as a houseplant till next season. lemme know how you make out with collecting seed. i'm interested to know if it even produces much seed if at all because of all the inbreeding.

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Thanks for the comment, yeah theyre really pretty plants. I figured ill just leave the big plant outside because now not only do i have the cutting, but seeds! The biggest spike on the plant had all browned but the rest were blue, so i just figured it was dead matter, but I pressed one of the flowers and some stuff flew out. I knew the seeds were small but was still surprised that so many were in these pods. Im gonna give the other flower spikes a bit longer and ive moved it out into the garden a bit for the bees.


Here's a better shot of the new growth + where its kept. Ghetto mist chamber lol. 16mp camera makes the beads look awesome






















And the seeds:





Around the 50 count and thats off one stem so should have in the 100s when done, least this means theyll be some hopefully interesting color variations

I grow coleus every year. Really is a cool plant. Bees go to town on the towers. I start mine from seed in an 8" pot and transplant them in the ground once they're about 8" tall. They explode after transplant.

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I grow coleus every year. Really is a cool plant. Bees go to town on the towers. I start mine from seed in an 8" pot and transplant them in the ground once they're about 8" tall. They explode after transplant.

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wow awesome plants. very different colors to mine but same old towers i see. and yeah everytime i try and move the plant theres a bee.. and they stay theyre for ages going on every tower. what time should i plant my seeds indoors, march? and growth is pretty slow atm cant wait to transplant to actual soil

I've got three of these along my driveway. Nice plants.

I can just about grow them year-round here, as long as there isn't a few days of freeze.

They are pretty fragile when they are seedlings, and the first 4" of growth seems to go slow. But once they root good and have space, they shoot up like its no ones business. I put probably 30-40 seeds spread out in each pot, and it will grow a nice bush shape. The ones I have are called rainbow coleus.