{"id":780,"date":"2011-09-12T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=780"},"modified":"2011-08-22T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T21:31:33","slug":"steps-in-re-blooming-last-year%e2%80%99s-poinsettia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/09\/12\/steps-in-re-blooming-last-year%e2%80%99s-poinsettia\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps in Re-Blooming Last Year\u2019s Poinsettia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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'White Winter Rose' poinsettia<\/p><\/div>\n

Part IV<\/strong>. In mid-September bring plant indoors as outdoor temps start to drop below 50\u00b0F to initiate poinsettia flowering. Poinsettia is a “photoperiodic” plant, which means that floral buds and colorful bracts are initiated\u00a0under short daylengths. A poinsettia requires\u00a06 weeks of\u00a010 hours or less of light per day.<\/p>\n

You must be determined to stay with the photoperiodic schedule every day. Exposing a plant to just 1-2 hours more light on any day will keep the plant growing with no flower\/bract response.<\/p>\n

An alternative way of stating<\/span>: keep your plant in complete darkness from 5 pm to 7 am for 40 days (6 weeks). Any momentary exposure to light will delay the bloom response.\u00a0Move into\u00a0a cardboard box or closet at\u00a0dusk to block out the room light. Make certain that no direct light seeps in through the cracks.<\/p>\n

By mid-November the upper leaves (bracts) should begin to color and flower buds form. Grow the plant at a sunny window and continue to water and fertilize.<\/p>\n

Stop fertilizing around mid-December. Continue watering and enjoy your personally grown poinsettia over the holiday season.<\/p>\n

Previous Blogs about Care of Poinsettias<\/strong> (dated: Dec. 18, 2010, Dec. 20, 2010, and Jan. 27, 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part IV. In mid-September bring plant indoors as outdoor temps start to drop below 50\u00b0F to initiate poinsettia flowering. Poinsettia is a “photoperiodic” plant, which means that floral buds and colorful bracts are initiated\u00a0under short daylengths. A poinsettia requires\u00a06 weeks of\u00a010 hours or less of light per day. You must be determined to stay with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[665,637,653,630,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}