Thursday, December 4, 2008

Poinsettia

Last spring I wrote about this little guy. Should I keep it or compost it. Well I decided that if it survived the winter I would repost it and keep it for the summer. Once summer is over then I will decide. Along comes September, way too soon, and I had to make the decision. Well it was looking pretty good. Good color and bushy. I put it in the storage area with a grow light to control the amount of light it got and about 6 weeks later I started to see the color. You can see the after pictures what was once a small plant with a couple blooms now has a dozen or more blooms. I know that the color leaves are not blooms but you all know what I mean.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

You are unbelievable!!! If I didn't know you, I might think you went and bought another poinsettia. I guess we know who got all of the green thumb. Beautiful, just beautiful!! Jane

Randy said...

That's pretty incredible!I've never been able to keep one alive, let alone get it to bloom again! Good Job!

Gina said...

That is really beautiful! Nice work!

Wayne said...

It's huge! Good work!
I've never been able to get them to rebloom either.

lisa said...

Wow, fantastic job!! I can get them to survive, but never re-bloom like that! You da' man! ;-)

Carol said...

I am so jealous. I piddle around with my plants, but I've never had this kind of success. Wow, I'm very impressed!

Andrea's Garden said...

I thought you've vanished from blogosphere. :) Well,you got a green thumb, Cliff. Your pointsetta looks great! take care and wishing you nice holidays, Andrea