Hello and Welcome to the blog created specifically for coleus lovers!
So many of our Rosy Dawn Gardens customers email me with questions, comments, and pictures and that I thought blogging would be the perfect forum for all of us to share our coleus interest (obsession?) with each other. Many of the questions and comments are repeated over and over and some customers correspond with me regularly, so I figured why not move the dialog to a place where we can all listen, learn, and participate!
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Having trouble with my Chocolate Mint Coleus. It was given as a gift this spring and really blossomed beautifully in a pot. When I tried to put one of the cuttings into the ground even though it was shaded most of the time, when the summer sun hit it, it wilted and I feared it would die, so I repotted it and kept it in the shade under the porch. Both the parent and the cutting did well during the summer. When winter hit, I brought them indoors and watched as the fully blossomed parent lost all its leaves and what remains is a skeleton with those purple shoots coming from the top. The baby cutting is still small but has a few leaves. Oh, I repotted the parent before bringing it indoors to a larger pot, it seemed to be outgrowing the one it was in.
ReplyDeleteIn addition the person who gave me the gift bought one for himself. His leaves never grew as large as mine and it kind of spread out like a wandering jew instead of the way my grew like a small bush. Now during the winter he still had leaves but the ants found their way into his apartment and to my horror nested in the pot and created an infestation in the apartment that is impossible to get rid of. I put the plant out on the patio. It was losing leaves daily and felt like it was dead even though it was still green and had few leaves. The branches were falling off by touch. The ants were beginning to get in all the other potted plants in his apartment as well. We both loved our Chocolate Mint Coleus so much...where did we go wrong? He is upset that I put the plant outdoors and left it. I figured it was going to die anyway, and we don't use chemical pesticides in the home and I wanted to be rid of the ants.
Sprinkle cinnamon on the soil, and the ants will leave quickly. Ants hate cinnamon, but it won't hurt the plant.
ReplyDeleteLast year I put all of my coleus pots up in the loft in my master bedroom. I watered them very little and the temperature of the room is usually around 55 degrees. Some of the plants got a little spindly, but all of them survived and I was able to take cuttings and start new plants in the spring. I didn't use grow lights or any lights for that matter and the only light they got is from a sky light that partially lights the loft. Again this year I have several pots that are up there now. I checked on them the other day and they have been up there now for over a month and they all look alright.
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