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Consumer Qs: Holiday poinsettias and firewood

If you have been growing poinsettias all summer, plan to provide special light/dark conditions to trigger them to bloom for Christmas. - photo by ARTY SCHRONCE/special

wpoinsettia Gordon 1 2013 — If you have been growing poinsettias all summer, plan to provide special light/dark conditions to trigger them to bloom for Christmas. - photo by ARTY SCHRONCE/special

Question: I kept two poinsettias from last Christmas and have been pampering them all summer. I know they need special periods of darkness to make them bloom. What do I need to do, and when do I do it?

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