Oh Snap

Umm I forgot to post my second set of terms...do you think I should just get it in late? ):

Biology/ ethics

So, what did you guys use for your bio/ethics report? I think most of them were really interesting and I wanted to know what you people did?

Newspaper article

Okay so has anyone found a newspaper article??? I've been looking in the Sentinel daily but have found nothing. Anyone know if the article can be found online? Let me know, thanks!

Size

Ok, so I have been taking perfct care of mine and it's still only 4 inches tall (well i did propigate it but it hasn't grown since!) Is everyone else's still so tiny!?! Does any one else know any thing to do to make it grow??!!

Propagating

I tried to propagate my plant with two different tries. One is failing and one has not changed at all. I am trying to get this to work but one is actually browning at the bottom. Any advice?

The Terms Collections

Uhhh, okay I'm a little confused about the terms. Do we take pictures of specimens for all forty, or just half of them? And do we define the specimen ones? I'm really confused about what we're doing here!! ): This is very important to me because I'm going to be in Canada on the due dates, so I need everything finished and dropped off in the office by the tenth. PLEASE HELP ME!!!

formatting for plant care log

is there a special way we're supposed to set up the plant care log in the blue booklet?

so far i've kept mine in a notepad file on my computer desktop, just due to how small the booklet looked and i didn't want to screw it up... i've recorded dates, plant stem height, leaf color, soil condition, and other notes like if leaves fell off or whether it's in the window.

also... does it have to be in the blue booklet when we hand it in?

about that intro email...

has anyone gotten a reply on the intro email we were supposed to send to ms. healy/mrs. gearin? i sent it a few days ago and handed in the email info form yesterday, and i was just wondering if anyone had heard anything...

Don't forget to propogate your baby! And also to make sure that it SURVIVES!!

If your plant is bent over and/or breaking at the stem, then you need to pinch off at the spot of bending, which is generally two leaf-levels down from the top, so that your plant is kind of short. It will survive BEST this way. Anytime your Coleus bends over, pinch off the problem spot. Also, pinch off long stems to prevent it from getting too heavy on one side. Make sure you do this as soon as possible, to prevent cellular mutations. Coleus is a domestic plant, and would not survive without you taking care of it!
Also, you can put the pinched off parts in some water and grow new baby Coleus. REMEMBER!!! Vegetatively propogated offspring are worth extra credit!!! This means that asexually reproduced Coleus are what you want for your extra credit. Propogating just means taking a part of the plant and growing a new plant from it. Which is basically asexual reproduction.
One last thing: YOU DON'T WANT IT TO FLOWER! To get rid of the flowers, just pinch it off right behind the flower, not that whole stem, unless the stem is too long.
Thank you for listening. (:

info sites

i looked around a bit, here are a few potentially helpful sites i've found:

http://www.rosydawngardens.com/Coleus_Care.aspx
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/firstgarden/planning/dictionary/flowers/coleus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleus
http://gardening.about.com/od/gardenprimer/ss/GardenMaint_3.htm
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/propa/msg0320392514719.html

if anyone else has anything to share, that'd be great. i'm gonna look around for more later, on transplanting and so forth.

propagation

How do I propagate my plant? questions? information?

what do these plants need?

Do these plants like lots of sun or do they need some shade? How often should I water my coleus? Should I put my plant outside? questions? information?

getting it to branch and become bushier

How do I get my coleus to branch and get bushier? questions? ideas?

stopping a coleus from blooming

How do I stop my Coleus from blooming? questions? information?

transplanting a coleus

How/when do I transplant a coleus? questions? information?