Coleus.. I have searched high and low to buy one of my favourite plants
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Coleus..
I have searched high and low to buy one of my favourite plants (Coleus) Where i usually buy them has been took over by Barrets who arent supplying them, I tried online but, the only choice i have are the same as last year, and i wasn't happy with them, first batch died and only half the replacements survived! besides, they were tiny plug plants, supposed to be large plugs puh.. do any of you know of a good supplier please, please, please.
15 May, 2011
Answers
Must be 40 years since I grew these from seed. From memory I found that it was dead easy. But you do need to sow early and in a little heat to get decent sized plants.
15 May, 2011
Also of course they have changed the name now to Solenostemon scutellarioides
15 May, 2011
I have asked friends who have allotments and they to are having trouble from seed! Frustrating isnt it it Giroffle, I will google this Owdboggy, Thanx.. Fingers crossed..
15 May, 2011
OK, 6 mixed on ebay £9.99.. Dont say how big they are tho.. Still searching..
15 May, 2011
well I have plenty of seeds YDD but can't get them working...so don't bother buying them...I'll happily send you some...if you can get the damn things to grow
15 May, 2011
I paid 98p for them (approx 220 seeds in pack)...very small...and should be exposed...anyhow I have had no success so far
15 May, 2011
Thanks Giroffle, thats so kind of you. I wouldnt mind trying them from seed, but is it to late now? Im deffo going to try next year tho, Maybe use the propogater in the greenhouse. still no luck with suppliers online :( Sick :)
15 May, 2011
well you can sow indoors apparently all year round...plant out in March and flowers Aug to Sept..I have Rainbow Mixed (purchased from Wilko's....)...that's reading off the packet now..and I am fast coming to the conclusion that these are a joke !! Anyhow...If you want some let me know ...and please let me know where I am going wrong..I think it was Owdboggy who said they were difficult from seed
15 May, 2011
or maybe I am the joke !!
15 May, 2011
No Giroffle your not the joke, seems like there not easy to propogate.. I would love some seed from you if you dont mind, Rainbow mix are what i bought last year and there were some beauties there, well the ones that survived lol..
ill PM you my address...
15 May, 2011
I don't remember advising against growing from seed - I thought I said my mother had done it very successfully. Which she did. (Too idle go back and check)
15 May, 2011
yes Steragram...I got you and Owdboggy mixed up.....
16 May, 2011
I,ve grown Coleus from seed for two years now.
Sow in mid March and move to a frost free greenhouse
when germinated. I grew "Wizard Scarlet" from Fothergills. Coleus don,t seem to be fashionable just now so growing from seed is your best bet.
10 Oct, 2011
me too ...would love some...and have failed miserably (2 attempts from seed). I think Steragram advised against growing from seed...too fiddly..I never see any...in market or GC or offered on line
15 May, 2011