[medit-plants] Re: Pointsettias?

Hi Jeanne -

I totally understand your problem. I’d spec’ed and planted poinsettias many times over the years as the grew quite well here in the SF Bay Area (away from night-time street lights which messed with the darkness cycle needed to bloom).

In more recent times, I noticed the same problem - plants just seemed to pine away over time and never grew when planted in the ground.  Researching over time, I came to learn about growth inhibitors used by floral suppliers to get their plants to arrest their development in order to make them last better while they were waiting to be sold.

This is why many potted seasonal plants fail to live on after their season - plant regulators have become quite ubiquitous in a certain segment of the trade.  Nothing you can do about it and many cultivars seem only to be available from the growers indulging in this new form of horticulture (more like plant torture to my mind!).


On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:32 PM Rosie Peddle <r*@thebtf.net> wrote:
Hello Jeanne,
Thanks for your message. I am away from home this week but briefly wanted to let you know that I have had your message. I will check with some of my colleagues and try to get back to you. My first thoughts are that the newer colour forms are hybrids and less robust than the basic species - Euphorbia pulcherrima.

Best wishes, Rosie

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> On 15 Nov 2019, at 03:51, Jeanne Bardems <j*@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Each year I am tempted to plant one of the newer and unusual color forms of poinsettias. I used to grow the original red form which I found very easy.
> But in more recent years when planting these seasonal plants they always die before they produce new shoots. Don’t know what I might be doing wrong. Any ideas?
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