hi this is robert from robert's tropical paradise garden today we're going to talk about coleus plants now this coleus i bought several months ago in a little four inch pot and now look at it it's huge and it's getting leggy so we're going to take cuttings from it and i'm going to show you how the first thing you want to do is take about a 4 inch cutting like this and we're going to root it we can't root it with these big big leaves on the bottom so we're going to cut those out and then since coleus is such a herbaceous plant we're even going to trim these big leaves that way it won't wilt and go into shock so that's what we're going to do to this plant several pieces trim trim trim and trim these some more you get much much higher success rate of the cuttings when you do it like this i have another variety that i'm going to do as well over here because these are beautiful coleus and i don't want to lose the plants before i get lots of new cuttings successful plants grown from the same plant so i'm gonna plant them in community pots to root them and then decide what i'm gonna do with them when i'm done now all these leaves here that we pruned off are gonna go into my mulch pile right over there there we go so again trim trim trim now where the leaf meets the stem is the node and that's where you usually get the roots so you want to cut right below the node there we go here's another big one i love coleus i've been growing coley since i was a little kid it's a fun plant to grow easy to grow and up north we could grow them all winter long on a windowsill and they gave lots of color indoor color okay now i'm going to show you how to put them in we're going to just stick these in like this careful you don't want to break the stem i'm going to put several in here like i said this is a community pot now we're not going to keep this in full sun while it's rooting we're going to keep it in semi shade we're not going to let it dry out we're going to keep the cuttings moist and i'm doing it outside but if you want to do it inside you can as well inside you might want to spray the leaves a couple times a day with water mist the leaves but out here in this humid florida sun that's not necessary so that's how we do it it's fun and easy and simple and i do this a lot with my seniors at work when we grow plants from cuttings we do it the same principles not necessarily cuddling the leaves for other plants but for this we do down we go and get this big one now this big one here has a lot of side leaves so we can take off all the big ones like this you don't need any of those big ones see that's even a little too much i'll take a little more off if there's too much leaves and not enough uh without any roots and too many leaves the thing could just wilt and die we don't want that to happen see what happens there we don't want one to shade out the other because they'll be uh thank you for coming to robert's tropical paradise garden please follow me on facebook twitter google plus my facebook page is robert's tropical paradise garden i have a blog the same name and i'm a writer for examiner.com thank you so much for watching this video watch all my others too i have about 66 of them and see you again soon