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Caring for the poinsettia: Beautiful leaves thanks to fertilizer

2022-12-16T13:41:59.121Z


Caring for the poinsettia: Beautiful leaves thanks to fertilizer Created: 12/16/2022, 2:30 p.m By: Joana Lück Whether in yellow, red or pink: poinsettias are the Advent classic in the home. If you fertilize the plant, you will enjoy it for a long time. As probably the most popular plant in the Advent season, along with mistletoe and fir branches, poinsettias can be bought everywhere. But who d


Caring for the poinsettia: Beautiful leaves thanks to fertilizer

Created: 12/16/2022, 2:30 p.m

By: Joana Lück

Whether in yellow, red or pink: poinsettias are the Advent classic in the home.

If you fertilize the plant, you will enjoy it for a long time.

As probably the most popular plant in the Advent season, along with mistletoe and fir branches, poinsettias can be bought everywhere.

But who does not know it: As soon as the plant is at home for a few days, it lets its leaves droop or dies completely.

If the wrong location is not responsible, this may be because the plant needs minerals.

Caring for the poinsettia: Beautiful leaves thanks to fertilizer

Poinsettias should be fertilized from time to time.

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The poinsettia is mainly kept as a houseplant during the cold season and in the Advent season, as it spreads a festive mood - but the pretty plant from the spurge family can even live for several years with the right care and continues to grow.

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As

Gartenjournal

knows, fertilizing should not be neglected with

Euphorbia pulcherrima

.

The following points must be observed:

  • Have you just bought the poinsettia?

    Then it is better to wait a few months before fertilizing.

    Because there are still enough nutrients in the soil at the beginning of the planting.

  • If the plant is older than six months, it is fertilized regularly.

    It only gets no nutrients from August to October.

  • Both liquid fertilizers and sticks with a high potassium content are suitable.

    After flowering in early spring, start adding fertilizer.

Along with the right location, the right fertilization is the key to healthy and radiant leaves in the poinsettia.

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But be careful when watering: the poinsettia does not like soil that is too moist and loses its leaves immediately if it becomes waterlogged.

Source: merkur

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