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Wintering cuttings of coleus in car storage area
Comments (19)Dottie - When I moved here from MD last year I brought 50 coleus with me, took cuttings from all and most made it thought the winter. You only want to plant a small tip of the stem (maybe one, no more than two leaf sets) They will get too big if you start with long stems. Also tried the whole plant and they are hard to get to look good outside the following year. You can start them in water but as someone said before they will rot and you DO HAVE TO CHANGE THE WATER OFTEN. I also found a clear glass is better and if you have some already rooting and add more, they seem to root easier and quicker. Why? I don't know. The roots will get tangled so you have to carefully pull them apart. I have found after much trial and error that the quickest and best method is to pick the stems you want and dip it into the RootTone or any hormone starter(found at HD or L's). Then plant the stem into a small pot of potting soil. Press the soil firmly down and around the stem. Then water WELL so the roots will start. I used 4-6" pots. You want small pots for several reasons. 1. take up less room on shelf or in a tray, and 2. the small plants want to be "cozy" in their enviroment to get a good start. I put mine on cookie sheets (with sides) to make watering easier and watered maybe once every ten days or so. Cut way back on the normal watering. I beleive you are going to have trouble in the location you are talking about but the plastic will help. Coleus want temps of the 60 degree range. The do not like the cold at all. I lost some when we went away for a weekend and turned one room temp down (forgetting they were in there) Lost all of them. The other rooms were OK. If I were you I'd give it a try but remember the cold is not their friend. Also another tid-bit of advise, take more cuttings than you want. Especially it there is one you really want to keep because you will lose some regardless of how you do it. You can start them in water now, (just to get them in the house for now) and later cut the stems and do the hormone thing and plant them using just the tips. They are actualy very easy but a little messy. They shed leaves and drip, etc. I save some every year but last year was more than I'd ever do again. Did have wonderful coleus all this summer but will not go as crazy as I did last year, this year. Email me as to how it goes and let me know if you have any questions. NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE CUTTINGS AS STATED above by others. Also if you start now and see there is one not doing as well as you want it to or you decide you want more, you will still have time to get more cuttings before it gets too cold. Maybe we call swap coleus in the spring. GOOD LUCK Hope this helps....See Morecar camping mattress question
Comments (13)We just got back from our, first in several years, camp out we slept in the back of the truck with a canopy over us. We put a piece of plywood on first then 2 layers of carpet,left over from remodeling, then our memory foam then a matress pad then a few wool blankets. We never felt the cold, but as we are both getting artheritis we did feel the hard. We are trying to decide if we would ever get back to camping or not. I did not like the crowded campground and Hubby did not like getting up with me twice to go potty in the middle of the night. He had to return to work the next day he didn't think he would but.... I will always enjoy camping, but next time we hit the far out there woods! Where his @#$% cell phone can't reach us!...See MoreAir Bag Lights Keeps Blinking
Comments (17)True, you could say that. That is until someone manages to find this thread, then you'll have to explain why you made the earlier statement. At the same time I have to laugh. Notice how when the pressures on now you admit you don't know anything about cars. If that is the case, why are you offering advice on how to deal with them? This situation underscores one of my biggest pet peeves, where real technicians, who care about their careers, and their customers vehicles have to deal with uneducated, and inexperienced people who advise their friends/relatives incorrectly, and try and make it look like its wrong for us to earn a living repairing cars. I wrote the post a month or so ago about my customer who lost his Caravan in an accident. My first thought was I was glad he was OK, the second thought was the responsibility that he and I shared when his airbag system had failed last year. It was his responsibility to have the car repaired, mine was to be trained and equipped to do it correctly for him. It does not get any more serious than that, and I hope georgia can get her car repaired ASAP, you never know whats around the next corner and you definitely don't want to find yourself in the position of saying "I'd pay anything to be able to go back and fix this and then maybe __________ wouldn't have gotten hurt"...See MoreSummer Fig, Apricot, Magnolia cutting propigating need bag? keep leave
Comments (11)Note to self, I didn't cover them with bags yet and might not at all. I've just been making sure I mist the leaves once or twice a day. No bags because I don't want to get possible fungus thing nor have to open them and un-tie them etc. to air them out. They are under a porch all of about maybe 1 or 2 hours of direct setting sun. One brick patio with brick wall and a holly plant above them, so I wet all of that masonry also to help keep the area humid. I planted these about a week ago. I see new growth from the apricots!! The figs should start to show soon too. The leaves are mostly still attached. If this were in Spring using dormant cuttings, then I'd definitely bag them because it's not as humid in spring. some people even wrap the whole exposed end of the cutting in seran wrap to keep it moist if doing this in Spring. Fig works either way (Spring/summer) obviously as per the recent picture someone shared. Air layering you can only do during the growing season (spring/summer/Early fall [probably]). I'm also air layering the fig and a few other things right now. I think I like air layering and 'simple layering' the best. Accidentially learned about simple layering when a grape plant vine tip was on the soil and rooted, then I transplanted it and it grew into a whole nother grape tree. With raspberries I poke a big hole in ground and bend a stalk down into it and pack the soil around it and it grows another plant granted it's kept watered. Air layering you basically find a tree you like in a parking lot or a friendly neighbor or something and just pick a branch to air layer that the tree would be ok or even better off without. EDIT, just learned about stump/stool layering. So easy, and you can get like 20 new plants from the original one and with the same good genetics. Or just take a few and leave the rest which have rooted in the mound of soil and it should eventually just root ball as one main plant again....See More- 9 years ago
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