#poinsettiapropagation

Juicy poinsettias… forbidden grapes… forbidden honey… forbidden cheeto dust… smh.

The seeds on my salmon poinsettia were falling off, so I picked the loose ones before they get my window sill all sticky. Apparently once they are all brown and dried out, the seeds inside these seed pods will be ready for planting. I have no idea what they will look like inside there lol, but I’m excited nonetheless. The smell of this poinsettia is something like the smell of dark chocolate, so it was very tempting to lick the pollen and juice off my fingers. (But I didn’t!)

Also it looks like my red poinsettia is making a new bloom!! So late in the season!! Idk what to do! I was going to repot them into their larger pots, but if it’s about to flower maybe I should wait it out… my room never has seasons anyway, I always keep it as warm as I can, so I’m wondering if this will mess with the poinsettias’ annual cycles… They require pure darkness in the evening in fall, but if the temperature is wrong, idk if I will get them to bloom again properly… (I was kinda using them as a test run for when I plant another green plant that requires special dark hours as well but maybe I’m better off planting those ones outside.)

Anyway, once the pink one is done with growing the last seed pods, I will repot that one, and probably the red one at the same time. I have the pots and plant stands all ready for ‘em, I’m just impatiently waiting for the seeds. (And also hoping I can get some of the seeds to acclimate to our outdoors weather!)
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How are YOUR poinsettias holding up?
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Poinsettia seed progress!!

Only my peachy poinsettia bloomed (apparently my variegated one had already bloomed when I got it, cuz the flowers just fell off when I touched them, back when I was pollinating the peach one)….
Anyway, January 1 was the first time I noticed that the seed pods started forming! And already just over a week later (today, January 9), they have so much definition! Gonna be exciting to see them form, and if they grow after I harvest them! It was SUCH a sticky process - the poinsettia yellow flowers (not the pink bracts) have a natural hole under them that weeps a clear sticky sap…. I thought just clearing the fallen leaves was sticky, but pollinating?? It’s like dipping my fingertips into honey and then into shredded broccoli florets. Such a mess lmao.

Once the seed pods have fully formed and I’ve harvested them, I’ll repot the poinsettias into the nice big pots I already have set up. I just LOVE how bushy and full these plants are, hopefully I can keep them this way!

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