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Oh so you can use a little stiff sniffer bottle to spray the pollen across the plant as long as you're pollen's dry and then to collect the pollen get a dog collar and strap it on there nice and tight and then get a heat gun and heat it up about 2 in up so slumps down a little bit causing a little lip that way the pollen will go into that outer ring edge and you have a way to be able to scrape it out without it trying to go down the base shaft of the flower
Loved, loved this You Tube talk! I had heard you speak in Dallas at our Dallas Arboretum last fall at our symposium, A Writer's Garden! We sat together at the table, and I visited with you about Eudora Welty.
Sorry but I can't totally agree with this advice. Back Story My company had it's annual Christmas party early. The first Saturday of December. (They did that as everyone had many scheduled events/parties and celebration through December. No one has anything planned the first week in December of course! LOL) They had baby poinsettias put on all the tables. (In all my life, I've never seen baby poinsettias. I'm use to seeing the large ones.) After the party they did not want to throw them out so they wanted the employees to take them as gift. Most did not want them. (They are not plant loving people such as myself) So I couldn't take them all home with me and since it was the beginning of December I distributed them throughout the company since we needed a little festive touch. I place some in the guest area and some on the employees desk to brighten up their office and put a smile on their face! It worked and decorating with the poinsettias put mostly everyone in a Christmas holiday spirit!) (We had a couple of grinches who did not want one in their office.) I took on the responsibility to make sure the poinsettias where properly cared for. Many of them were beginning to wilt and needing water desperately! I went around and watered them all and check them the next day. All but two sprung back to life and I quickly replace them. Here's were I disagree with this advice. My poinsettias Story I did not and would not take the plant out the pot to water them. Too much extra work. I simply filled a pitcher with warm water and gave them a good soaking, only at the roots, once a week on Wednesdays. I did not take the foil wrapper off the pots as it keeps the water from leaking out onto the tables. Results Fast forward to over a month later now in January the poinsettias are 3 times as big! They want take them home fearing they will kill them. We've only had one to almost completely wilt but I've nurse the small remaining foliage back to life. It's doing good. I have it with me. A lot of them have given me praise. They are surprise that the poinsettias are still living and getting bigger beyond Christmas. They've never seen any make it beyond Christmas! Also the company has huge large windows so they plenty of indirect light but no direct sunlight. They are flourishing and I want be surprise if they last until next Christmas! This is the first time I've also seen them last and flourish beyond Christmas. I'm so proud of them. And the employees appreciate me gifting them the poinsettias and keeping them healthy and alive. The customers are surprise to see them to. It would make an interesting story if they last throughout the year! LOL
Not sure if you’re monitoring this any longer, but we have a little gem magnolia that we planted 3 months ago that is producing beautiful blooms, can you provide any guidance on how / when to cut the flower to enjoy it inside our home? Thanks very much!
They didn't kill it. In order to pollinate the flowers we have to remove the spathe (big purple petal) because we physically cannot reach them without removing it.
Great advice, thank you! I followed the advice after Christmas 2021, kept my plant indoors throughout, trimmed it as shown, placed on a South facing windowsill as I live in Scotland, UK. Delighted and surprised to get beautiful scarlet blooms developing by Oct 2022 and still scarlet now in late Feb 2023. Definitely dying back, losing lower leaves and now red ones are going too. I will try to keep it going again, repot it around May/June this year, and hope to enjoy it for years to come. 🙂👏
I’m glad to find this video. I’ve got one for a gift this Xmas. Thanks very much for these useful tips Dyanne. When you said about the temperature is it 40 degrees Celsius?
Hello from India Kerala. Thank you mam for the tips because my poinsettia has come back from last year. Your month by month tips has really helped and I have managed to grow it this year. It is a little leggy but it's all right I have 3 beautiful flowers . I am propagating it after the season is over.
We spent a Winter down on the Texas Mexican border in McAllen Texas people had these growing in their front yards some of them were almost 7' tall! and twice the size of the flowers in this video humongous humongous! and beautiful in Full sun!
It is. To be clear: -- the plant in the video is Ungnadia speciosa, Mexican Buckeye (Spanish Buckeye if you're feeling archaic) -- "Texas Buckeye" is Aesculus glabra var. arguta, a different interesting uncommon tree, not covered in the video. Source: am from TX and read tree books
Just loved this. I have the book and would love to meet Marta 💕🙏🌸🌺. I’m a writer and gardener and lover of flowers too. Tku for this fun and interesting video
Thank you so much. I am in Canada and I have 2 beautiful ones that I bought last Christmas. We are almost in August and still have leaves and red flowers. People can’t believe it, they say they never saw that. I just give a glass of water everyday and let God be life in my plants. Should I trim it to be on a tree like your beautiful one? I will put them outside tomorow , they will feel the sun. I will need to water them more. Thank you for all the information and God Bless you dear!
I live in the DC area and have a very healthy poinsettia with red bracts in May. Its difficult for me to cut it back now, because its so full but Im going to trust the process. Thank you, Dianne!
If i live in Canada's Zone 3 on the Canadian hardness chart. Would a poinsettia get enough light in the window through the window? For just under 4 months we only get around 8 hours of daylight, but it's usually overcast in our winter in my city. Would a poinsettia be a bad long term plant if I wanted to successfully grow one to a tree size?
