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title: "Any tips on keeping your coleus plant healthy. Any advice will help."
description: "Any tips on keeping your coleus plant healthy. Any advice will help."
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Tria"
published: "2026-06-27T14:12:03.642879Z"
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# Any tips on keeping your coleus plant healthy. Any advice will help.

_Posted by Tria on 2026-06-27_

Any tips on keeping your coleus plant healthy. Any advice will help.

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## 2 comments

### Nikiller commented on 2026-06-27

For such an “easy” and “beginner friendly” plant, my coleus is my BIGGEST struggle to get happy. We bought a baby with 6 leaves and it’s been the most dramatic and difficult thing to keep happy. First two weeks I couldn’t keep up with watering it then after that it retained so much moisture for so long that I didn’t need to water for over two weeks. It’s then chosen to only grow vertically into the grow light and burn all the leaves like and idiot. I’ve gotten it moved to the top shelf where it absolutely cannot get a burn, and it’s just been budding baby leaves all over the stem now. I tried pinching the top like basil at one point to encourage branching and he told me to leave him alone forever. I can’t win with this coleus.

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#### Tria replied on 2026-06-28

Thank you for the tip I hope with these new information she will thrive in no time. Thank u again.

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