Getting Poinsettia to bloom

It's doing well Ossie.

 

Lovely to see such a big healthy plant!

 

It's probably a bit bigger than it should be because I didn't cut it back. Having said that I'm really pleased with how it's gone so far

 

I might be wrong, but I get the feeling that the ones you buy have been treated with growth hormone to keep them compact.

 

Ah, here is the thread. My in-ground Poinsettia starting to bloom at a great height behind the in-ground Brugmansia
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@Victoria Nice to see how well your plant is flowering! I'd heard they grow wild in the Canary Isles but I never imagined they could grow so high!

I had a plant in Spain for several years which flowered every year but grew tall & lanky but, (I'm talking about the mid 1980s), there was no Internet so I couldn't look up how to grow them & prune them. I only ever cut off the flowerheads once dead. If I'd known back then I would probably have kept the plant for a few more years. But it looked horrible & the flowers hardly made it worth my time trying to get it to flower every year.

 

I will get some more pictures as it develops this month Balc. It does bloom lower down as well.
This was the year before last taken from the other side.

 

I believe the plant originates in Mexico Central America.

 

It's good that it can also flower further down - otherwise you would get a crick in your neck from trying to see the flowers up so high!