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3 total messages Started by Firethorn707 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:23
I started a coleus from a single leaf and its rooted! now - where will the new plant start to grow?
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Author: Firethorn707
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:23
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I started a coleus from a single leaf and its rooted! now - where will
the new plant start to grow?  From the bottom where the roots are?
How should i plant it?  This one is kind of bizarre.
Re: I started a coleus from a single leaf and its rooted! now - where will the new plant start to grow?
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Author: Slipstream
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:13
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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:42:02 GMT, Garrapata <garrapat@09.netcom.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:23:21 -0700, Firethorn707
><firethorn707@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I started a coleus from a single leaf and its rooted! now - where will
>>the new plant start to grow?  From the bottom where the roots are?
>>How should i plant it?  This one is kind of bizarre.
>unless you got the bud at the bottom of the petiole you might not get
>a new plant, Coleus is not usually started from leaf cuttings

I know when you cut all the eyes out of a potato it can generate a
completely new bud.  Maybe it will do that?  I mean - what would be
the point of growing roots if it couldent do that?
Re: I started a coleus from a single leaf and its rooted! now - where will the new plant start to grow?
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Author: Dotting Doyler
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:56
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Firethorn,

Use a stem next time and have at least two knuckles under the soil level.

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