Here is the true story of the charlie brown poinsettia.
Purchased on clearance by well intended BF from BBS few days before Christmas in 2010. I put it outside in in the spring behind some tallish stuff because it looked pretty crappy. During fall cleanup I noticed that it was turning color (mild fall that year), so I brought it inside. It still looked pretty crappy--leggy and no leaves to speak of...but it was alive and trying to bloom! Here are a couple of embarrassing pictures of it taken on 2-19-12:
I re-potted it in about April and it moved outside again, but gave it more sun. Same story but with an earlier winter, a few more leaves, and bigger still, except it kept its color like I said thru July...and it looked so cool, in a charlie-brown-poinsettia kinda way that I never moved it out side...
and now it is an indoor shrub. Still leggy--especially on one side--and pathetic, but totally doing it's thing
and, you're all just going to have to believe me because I am not gonna clean up the charlie brown plant room anytime soon--
