Ms. Shirley, I'm afraid I can't be much help like you our weather is so unpredictable,(sheez we even had SNOW in February this year. My cutting start out doing great, by the end of december they are all but gone. I have had better luck with full size Coleus plants. We just dig'em up and plop them in a container as many as it will hold. DH will open all the doors before he leaves for work no matter what the temp is outside at the time beacuse we know that within minutes with the sun it gets to hot in the greenhouse.