This is a picture of a Pointsettia that I bought from a little boy a couple of weeks ago. I was at work and in walks this little boy (probably 10 yrs. old). He was dressed up in a collared shirt and bow tie. Nervously he asked,
"Imsellingpointsettiasfortheyouthchoirwouldyouliketobuyone?"
He was talking so fast and so quietly, I had NO idea what he asked or what he was selling, but i was sure I was buying whatever it was. He was DARLING, it was all I could do not to buy seven of them.
Auntie Gail: I walked to my car (20 degree weather) with plant in hand, and when i got home some of the petals were wilty :( Is there any way to reverse this or are they ruined? Thought you might know... 
Friday, December 01, 2006
Worth the Money
Posted by Becca and Jordan Duvall at 10:34 PM
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Hey, Bec! Way to support the little guy (literally)!! I would have had to buy from the little blurter too :)
I'm not sure why poinsettias are winter plants because they really like to be 65-70 degrees at all times.....
So, poinsettias in Muntana are just silly :) The best thing to do is to pinch off the leaf or petal that has wilted so the plant won't put all its energy toward fixing the dying leaf.
They do not usually come back if they are extremely wilted - especially if it is from the cold. They will un-wilt if the soil is too dry and you water it soon enough, but otherwise, you are hosed :)
Take it out of the red wrapper and water it with lukewarm water in the kitchen sink. Let it drain really well, then do it again. Don't put back in the wrapper until all the dripping stops - it doesn't like to sit in water.
They really like southern exposure windows if you have one. Try to keep it away from drafts of any kind and don't let it touch a windowpane, that will wilt it immediately. They are kind of high-mai plants.
But hey, I just learned that they are NOT poisonous, so you can feed it to Sir Wallace when you get tired of it!
"Thanks to more recent testing, however, it is no longer necessary to keep your beautiful poinsettia plants on high shelves and out of reach. The long-standing belief that poinsettias were poisonous has finally been proven to be nothing more than a myth – a false alarm.
According to a source at the Poison Control Center in Madison, Wisconsin, most of the fear originated from the death of one child in Hawaii in 1918 who was believed to have eaten a poinsettia plant. However, experts are no longer sure this death really had anything to do with the ornamental plant."
Miller, T. (2002). Retrieved December 2, 2005, from http://oror.essortment.com/arepoinsettias_rfpo.htm
Much love to you - your tree looks so BEAUTIFUL!!! oxoxo aq
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