Poinsettias In Full Bloom. 19 Dec 24.

 These are the poinsettias that I grew over the past year.

This one is in its third year.

I'm very pleased at how colorful it is.

This one is in its second year.  It's bigger than I want, but I'm still happy with it.  It's a very rewarding plant to grow.

I don't do any special darkness treatment, even though lots of websites say to do that.  I think our nights here are long enough. 

I think a key thing to do, is repot before starting to "over summer" them.  The peat is too easily dried and too difficult to re-wet.  I use a regular potting soil.  Also, they become top heavy, so I use fairly heavy ceramic pots.   In the summer, I try not to let them dry out completely.  I use a houseplant fertilizer (Schultz) per label instructions.

I want to keep these growing.  I may see if the variegated on can be pruned back a bit further, or re-start a cutting from it.

I don't want too many, but this week I added this small Poinsettia.

I don't care much for the other color varieties (white, pink, cream"), but I like the bright red and white speckles on the variegated ones.  This one is quite small, so I think I can get it started right in a good potting soil and good attention to pruning, early and short.