Is it unusual for my Christmas poinsettia is still very much alive?

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It is steadfastly refusing to be dead.
Is this normal?

My mother thinks it’s very odd.

Incoherent thread title.

Was distracted at the thought that maybe it was plastic.

It isn’t.

Unusual but not unprecedented! My godmother once kept one alive until practically the following Christmas. I don't think she actively tried to, maybe you were both just lucky to get poinsettias with a particularly strong will to live?

Mine are both still alive. They like a cool room with lots of light.

I can see yours is happy on the windowsill, I’m guessing your room is east or north facing ?

No it’s south facing Imogen.
Maybe I should move it when we get some sunshine.
Now I want to make it live until next Christmas.

Ah, it probably can't see your calendar from there so it doesn't know it's time is up

Mine’s been going since Christmas 2018! I’m amazed as they normally die before Boxing Day but I’ve kept this one in a much cooler place. All the leaves turned green, I tried to turn it red last Christmas but I started too late and it only went red on the stems.

I meant Christmas 2017!

Don't know about unusual, but mine usually don't make it to new year.

DP once did a job that involved setting up a fake Asda supermarket so they could film their Christmas Advert. It was done in the summer and he brought me back some poinsetta plants that had been used on the set - predictably they had been upset by the unseasonable forced growing and they must have lasted about 2 days before all the red leaves fell off.

Our Christmas tree is still going strong, still green and full of needles. It's a 7 ft cut one without roots but DH put it in a planter after a few weeks of it being consigned to the garden as he couldn't bear to cut it up to take it to the tip while it was still so healthy looking. It was reduced to £8 from £40 when we bought it on the 15th December and I was bit concerned it wouldn't last for the Christmas period!

My last one lasted over two years, grew to be really big, then it sadly gave up the ghost last summer for some reason. I was also very surprised.

Ooh bananamonkey you obviously have the poinsettia chops. What have you done to it to make it live so long?

Very glad to hear from this thread that my one isn’t a freak.

Mine is still going strong. I've outed into the conservatory as I was bored with it. Last year's was still doing well by mid summer so I put it outside. I've tried before to keep them all year round and can't get them red again so I don't bother now.
They do give good value don't they? Much better than a bunch of flowers.

I’ve neglected it! Actually I think it’s because it’s in a cold place next to a west facing window so sunny-ish? My past ones were near a radiator in the middle of a room.

All the leaves have dropped off recently as I think I’ve overwatered it but it has new leaf buds. My orchid in the same place has also just flowered for the first time since I got it 3 years ago, I’m really crap with plants but think I have found a lucky spot for them!

ours is still alive. happily sitting on the windowsill and flowering.

I've got a pot plant I won in a raffle 4 years ago refusing to die. As are the cyclamen plants my mum bought me in October. I want my window sill back!

I've got one that's over a year old. It just seems to like it's spot on the windowsill!

My DM usually gives me one. I don't know why, it is usually dead before the decorations come down.

What is your secret? I have never managed to keep one alive longer than a fortnight

I also have one from November 2017! And I can kill most plants within a fortnight. This one seems to thrive on my 'tough love' approach.

Awww, that's such a happy-looking plant!

I have a three year old one! It's no longer red and has got very tall and leggy, but it seems happy as Larry on my kitchen windowsill!

What is your secret?
I re-pot them as soon as I buy them, keep on a windowsill in a warm room and water as soon as soil is dry. This is it just now.

There's one in a window on our school run looking in rude health. Until I saw this thread I thought that was v unusual, but you must all have the magic touch!

I love a poinsettia - mine always cark it by the new year though

I'm going to try your re-potting technique next Christmas Traccs

My co worker always gives us ponsiettias around Christmas time and they always die but for some reason my one is thriving, so is the one belonging to the girl next to me, everyone else’s have died. I’m thinking I may have to take mine home soon and repot it but I have a feeling that will bring on its demise.