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12.06.2023 - 01:05 / gardenerspath.com / Joe Butler
How to Water Poinsettia PlantsWater is essential. Without good ol’ Adam’s ale, the glorious poinsettia would look like nothing more than a rather sorry-looking clump of foliage, eventually succumbing to an untimely death.
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Humans would of course suffer a similar fate due to lack of moisture.
I know I would spend far too much time trying and failing to swallow pills, for example, all the while looking as if I were in dire need of the Heimlich maneuver.
And without an adequate supply of H2O, countless amusement parks would just be places where half-naked folks like to hang out in pool-shaped holes, trying to slide down insufficiently slippery surfaces.
When it’s properly hydrated, Euphorbia pulcherrima will grow into a dark green-leafed beauty that blooms with gorgeous red, pink, yellow, or cream-colored bracts.
But deprive a poinsettia of the water that it needs, and it’ll become stunted, wilted, and chlorotic. Not at all ideal for producing those holiday hues we’ve all grown to love.
Luckily, watering these plants doesn’t involve some mystical set of techniques that require a multi-year, “Batman Begins”-style pilgrimage to learn.
It’s actually pretty simple – especially when compared to the martial arts skills that Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne learned from the members of the League of Shadows.
Interested in proper poinsettia watering? Then your training begins now.
Although, to quote Liam Neeson’s Ra’s Al Ghul: “The training is nothing… the will is everything.”
Let’s clear up one thing before we begin: it’s always best to avoid overhead watering.
Splashing lots of water onto the foliage from above wastes H2O, fails to
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